House of the Day: 10 South Portland Avenue
Charles Lockwood once told us that he thinks South Portland Avenue is the best block of brownstones in the city. Which doesn’t mean you can charge $3.5 million for a brownstone yet, something the owner of #10 found out recently. Now on the market for $2,495,000, the five-story house with excellent details is probably in…
Charles Lockwood once told us that he thinks South Portland Avenue is the best block of brownstones in the city. Which doesn’t mean you can charge $3.5 million for a brownstone yet, something the owner of #10 found out recently. Now on the market for $2,495,000, the five-story house with excellent details is probably in the range of where it will sell given that identical four-story houses on the block have gone for $2 million-plus. However, one commenter in the Forum noted that the upper floors of the house are chopped up into a “rabbit warren”–though that is something that can be easily and inexpensively remedied. From the photos, the interior appears to be in decent shape, but it looks like the same guy has owned the house for the last thirty years which usually doesn’t bode well for things like electrical and plumbing infrastructure, which are more expensive to fix that sheetrock walls. The listing on the heretofore unknown (at least to us) Harris Veilson website does describe the seller as motivated, so we’ll be interested to see if this moves quickly. We bet it does.
10 South Portland Avenue [Harris Veilson] GMAP P*Shark
$1 Mil Drop at 10 South Portland [Brownstoner Forum]
10 So Portland has a “Sold” sign on it. Does anyone know what it went for?
The front windows face the houses on the other side of the street. I suppose if you stood right up against the window and looked down the street you could see the park, but the same can probably be said for any of the houses on the south portland. i personally don’t think that adds value. Being closer to one end of the block in itself doesn’t make this place worth more than #50, I’d say.
wouldn’t #10 have partial views of the park?
Well, a gorgeous brownstone at 50 South Portland sold by owner a month or so ago for the asking, $2.3 million. It was in pristine condition (garden rental, upper triplex for owner), perfect inlaid floors on all levels, columns between living room/dining room, 10′ extension with kitchen in back overlooking pretty garden. #10 needs everything, $300k and up to make it comperable to #50.
There has been a lot of interest in this place since the price drop, but I wonder whether those potential buyers are thinking they might get it for closer to 2 million.
Why is it considered the prettiest block in the city? First of all, the street and pavement feels so friggin wide . . .(am I crazy, or is it actually wider than normal?) . . . with these majestic trees all perfectly lined up along the avenue, drooping green shade all over the giant brownstones. It kind of rises upwards as you walk from lafayette to the park — and then all you see at the end is the elegant entrance to Ft Greene park, with its high hill of trees and grass and stone archway. It’s breathtaking, day or night.
I used to live a block from there, and everyone in the neighborhood always used to say it was the prettiest block in the city. I think because it’s a perfect row of brownstones that ends in an Olmstead park.
Brownstoner, do you know what it is about this particular block that CL likes so much? Not knocking it, just curious.
to me its 4416sq ft plus whatever attic space on an excellent block so price does seem about what i’d expect.
but why is listing broker some small obscure realtor that has no other listings in area and in own words–>
“specializing in the following neighborhoods:
Mid-town, Clinton, Murray Hill, Chelsea, Gramercy Park, Greenwich Village, Soho and Tribeca.”
Yeah nice block and nice looking house. But for 2.5M? No way.