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The Pfizer mansion at 280 Washington Avenue has been on and off the market and all over the price map for almost two years now. The 12,000-square-foot mansion, which is dripping with restored period detail (a little over the top in come cases), started at $3,595,000 in January 2005 before going off the market a few months later; then in February of this year, it burst back onto the scene at $3,995,000, only to be reduced a few months later to $3,695,000. And now last week it dropped by almost another 10% to $3,399,000. Where does it stop? As we’ve said before, it’s not very expensive on a per square foot basis. There just aren’t a lot of buyers looking to drop more than $3 mil on a place in Clinton Hill just yet.
280 Washington Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 280 Washington Avenue [Brownstoner]
Pfizer Mansion Hitting Market [Brownstoner]


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  1. charles, please sell to me. you know that i get the house and that i will love it and make it even more beautiful than it is already- i will live in it until my last breath. i will fill it with beautiful vibes and happy loving people. i am the person to pass the torch to-

  2. Actually, using the floorplan provided in the Corcoran listing, the square footage for this house comes out to about 7400. This makes rough sense: around 1800-2000 each for the garden and parlor floors, 1500 for the first floor of bedrooms and 1000 for each of the top two. Not sure where the above mentioned 11 or 12 thousand comes from. At $3.3mm (also from the listing), this comes to $444/sq ft. Still relatively inexpensive but with an additional minimum of $1mm for restoration, this goes to more like $580/sq ft which seems to be in line with other properties in the area.

  3. Just saw this beautiful house- it is lovingly inhabited and maintained by a guy passionate enough to take on the task of protecting it. It is not clean like your mom’s suburban house and not for the upper east siders mentioned above. It is not a dump. It requires no more work than going into a spotless place and then having to gut all their crap that you don’t like. This is not as broker friendly as the house that has just had a pie baked to entice buyers. It requires a little imagination- but not even that much. It has solid bones, great floors, woodwork and plaster work. Everything is intact. You just have to look past the fact that it’s a giant bachelor pad. It needs a fresh coat of paint and for the most part (something it doesn’t really have) furniture. Trust me ( to the writer above) there are plenty of people in Brooklyn with enough money to buy this as a single family home – you just don’t recognize them because they don’t fit your narrow Moveon.org view of wealthy people. They may actually be the people who live in Brooklyn not because they have to but because they want to.

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