House of the Day: 135 Westminster Road
After last week’s listing for a Albemarle botch-job, today’s House of the Day at 135 Westminster Road looks positively like a bargain at $1,699,000. Recently restored, the house retains is old-school gingerbready goodness. Plenty of original wood paneling, stained glass windows and light fixtures. (Check out the kitchen appliances!) What’s not to like? The first…
After last week’s listing for a Albemarle botch-job, today’s House of the Day at 135 Westminster Road looks positively like a bargain at $1,699,000. Recently restored, the house retains is old-school gingerbready goodness. Plenty of original wood paneling, stained glass windows and light fixtures. (Check out the kitchen appliances!) What’s not to like? The first showing is on Sunday but we bet this one won’t last long.
135 Westminster Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
Agreed, given what else is out there, this seems 100K underpriced. I am also amazed how many couples are going for 3 kids around me so this would be a nice homestead. I give it till the end of the open house on Saturday to have a few offers on the table and week after to have an accepted offer.
Enough with the Park Slope as center of the universe bickering, and back to the important stuff.
Whether or not it’s to your personal taste, this house will sell at or very near ask, and will sell quickly. The market here is hotter than ever and there are comps that have sold for significantly more. Houses with unpainted period detail, in PPS, and which have been carefully maintained are few and far between. This house has the whole package and is asking much less than others currently on the market in need of TONS of work.
Mea culpa, re: location of Connecticut Muffin. Obviously I don’t spend enough time congesting the streets of Park Slope.
“I rather visit the congestion on 5th Avenue at my leisure than live next to it, thank you.”
People visiting 5th Ave instead of living next to it is the reason its congested.
And isn’t Connecticut Muffin on 7th Ave, anyway?
love the kitchen appliances, but with all of the accents it’s a bit over the top country casual for my taste. would remove the curtains, wall paper, ruffly frou frou-ness for a cleaner retro look.
I couldn’t actually immagine living in this “Little Red Riding Hood” house, but I could imagine seeing it in the Brooklyn Museum.
Sorry to disappoint, but I’m not a broker, and I couldn’t give a toss, specifically, about Connecticut muffin.
I rather visit the congestion on 5th Avenue at my leisure than live next to it, thank you.
“New amenities on Cortelyou” = broker speak for “Did you hear? Connecticut muffin is opening! Did you hear? Connecticut muffin is opening!”
5th avenue gets a years worth of cortelyou rd action in almost given week 🙂
I’m loving it. So nice to see a kitchen that’s both period-inspired and practical. All that trendy stuff they put in condos nowadays is going to look as dated as avocado green refrigerators in a few years. (Which is probably when the avocado green refrigerators will be in again.)