Open House Picks
Brooklyn Heights 19 Garden Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 11:30-1 $4,400,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 354 10th Street Betancourt Sunday 1-3 $1,495,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 466 Westminster Road Brooklyn Properties Sunday 12-1:30 $1,199,000 GMAP P*Shark Bushwick 51 Linden Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 12-1:30 $675,000 GMAP P*Shark

Brooklyn Heights
19 Garden Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 11:30-1
$4,400,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
354 10th Street
Betancourt
Sunday 1-3
$1,495,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
466 Westminster Road
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,199,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bushwick
51 Linden Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 12-1:30
$675,000
GMAP P*Shark
Hey 10th Street broker – you should maybe take some lessons from Townsley & Gay. They have now lowered their listing on 14th St (bet 4/5) to 1.595 – it started at 1.879, and frankly, I think it’s still overpriced at 1.595 (FYI, this was a Brownstoner HOTD a few weeks ago, around Dec 6 I think). Like 10th St, it has a problem of being on a crappy block. Even though it is by far a much nicer house than 10th Street (which is a tiny dump by comparison), they’ve had to knock well over $250K off the initial ask due to the block, and my bet is that they’ll have to lower still more before selling…
We looked at Ditmas and just couldn’t tolerate such teeny tiny bedrooms, which all the houses have there. I don’t even know where we’d put our clothes, having such small rooms like in this listing. They’re smaller than the bedrooms in our old apartment. There’s barely enough room for one dresser and we need 4 dressers for my husband and me. We’re hardly big clothes-horses either. Also the living rooms were tiny that we saw in Ditmas. Some strange proportions going on in certain eras or styles of houses. If you can’t afford the huge grand houses in that neighborhood, IMO it’s not worth it to be so far out and away from transportation living in tiny rooms. That was our decision anyway. We couldn’t afford a $2-3 million house and those are the only ones I actually like in Ditmas.
Thanks 11:52. You still suck.
I’ve seen 466 Westminster and it needs a lot of work. The kitchen and bathrooms all need to be updated. Every room needs a skim coat and the windows are old and need to be replaced. The floors are pretty but need to be sanded and refinished. The crummy siding and the bricked over porch need to be replaced. The broker says the mechanicals are good but it needs a new roof. As someone mentioned, the backyard is claustrophobic and there aren’t many original details. It does have a nice homey feeling and could be cute once it’s fixed up, but I think that it’s way overpriced. There are much bigger houses available in that price range (for example, 109 Marlborough Road). I think it has potential but it should go in the mid-900’s.
Bklyn heights house was nice, but smaller than 3500 sq feet, and that’s including the marginally usable space downstairs and on the top floor.
Interior is like a 1980s time capsule.
Has anyone looked at the 466 Westminster house? How much work does it really need?
lol for 800k you get sunset park. you won’t get any where near park slope.
we should have a pool going to see how much a house finally sells for and who is the closest to the sales price.
1:32am – well, I think 800K for a house in even the fringes of Park Slope might not be realistic unless the market does have a pretty significant correction. But I agree that 1.5 is ridiculous and they would be lucky to get 1.1 for that block & size of house.
Clearly the realtor of the 10th street house in hoping that if they place it on the market for 1.5 mil they will get 1.1 mil, when in reality 1700 sq. ft. on that block is worth $800,000. Plus they will get a slap on the wrist plus more for lying about the square footage.