The 12 Biggest Brooklyn Home Sales of 2015 (Updated)

From some of Brooklyn’s most lavish and luxurious brownstones to two multimillion-dollar tear-downs, the borough’s seen some eye-popping sales this year.

Which deal surprises you the most?

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12. One of three exceptional townhouses in the former “Amity Street Horror” building in Cobble Hill, this home boasts a rooftop patio, expansive living room and a “children’s library.” The building is a landmarked, French Renaissance palace-style structure that was once owned by Long Island College Hospital. It was converted into condos in 2011.

114 Amity Street
Date sold: July 31, 2015
Asking price: $7,950,000
Sale price: $6,835,000
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Core (Lawrence V Treglia)
Read more here ->

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11. The last and biggest of  three neo-traditional townhouses at Strong Place and Kane Street, No. 2 had the extra amenity of an 800-square-foot carriage house with parking on the lower level and a studio apartment above. The townhouse is about 4,000 square feet over five levels. The exterior was modeled on the neighborhood’s historic row houses, but the interiors are modern.

No. 2 Strong Place
Date Sold: July 17, 2015
Asking Price: $7,500,000
Sale Price: $6,873,187
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Brennan Realty
See it here ->

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10. This one is weird — probably a $7,250,000 tear-down. This suburban enclave of Gravesend frequently boasts some of the most expensive listings in Brooklyn, and a 3,600-square-foot home down the street purportedly sold for $11,000,000 in 2003 — to be demolished for a new home. The new owner of 501 Avenue S, apparel exec Isaac S. Franco, apparently got tired of the 8,674-square-foot mansion he built directly across the street (after tearing down the $3,500,000 home that was there). Our money’s on another demolition-and-new-construction combo.

501 Avenue S
Date sold: July 30, 2015
Sold price: $7,250,000
Area: Gravesend
Read more about Gravesend here ->

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9. CWB Architects opened up this 1891 Romanesque Revival-style home with a double-height glass solarium that spans the garden and parlor floors and features a wood-burning stove. The kitchen, which overlooks it, is modern in feeling, with a wall of white subway tile, a dramatic and custom-made hand-forged brass hood, a Lacanche stove, and honed Carrara marble counters.

250 Garfield Place
Date sold: June 18, 2015
Asking price: $7,500,000
Sale price: $7,665,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Joan Goldberg)
See it here ->

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8. This lavish 5,500-square-foot single-family home has elaborate plaster ceilings, six working fireplaces with ornate mantels (alabaster, according to the listing), views of the World Trade Center, a gym, office, temperature-controlled wine cellar for 420 bottles, central air and a darkroom.

36 Garden Place
Date sold: May 20, 2015
Asking price: $8,250,000
Sale price: $7,785,000
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Stribling (Priscilla Bijur)
See it here ->

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7. This four-bedroom condo broke a record in September when it sold for $2,406 a square foot. The home is 3,657 square feet, plus a 693-square-foot private roof terrace. And there is a fireplace! It’s gas, not wood burning. Perhaps even more remarkable, the unit has its own vented gas clothes dryer.

One John Street, PHE
Date sold: May 29, 2015
Asking price: $8,800,000
Sale price: $8,800,000
Area: Dumbo
Broker: Sotheby’s (Karen Heyman)
See it here ->

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6. The high price of this particular home might seem out of place for a property so far from transit and practically rubbing shoulders with the BQE. But records show that the property was purchased in a sale along with four adjacent empty lots. Add up the buildable square feet of those sites and you get a price of roughly $514 per square foot. Not bad for a development site. And this demolition permit just goes to support our theory that the site will soon be one hefty apartment building.

145 President Street
Date sold: November 19, 2015
Sale price: $9,000,000 ($11,000,000 with adjacent lots)
Area: Carroll Gardens
See it on PropertyShark ->

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5. This grand Beax-Arts limestone mansion was built in 1912 by the Tracy family, who were in the shipping business, and was also used by the Knights of Columbus as a meeting house. For many decades, it served as a school. But the interiors were kept in fairly good condition, with a Tudor-style dining room, an Arts and Crafts library, and an 18th-century-style sitting room.

105 8th Avenue
Date Sold: March 17, 2015
Asking Price: $13,000,000
Sale Price: $9,500,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Halstead (Marc Wisotsky / Jackie Lew)
See it here ->

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4. This now-swanky Brooklyn Heights carriage house was sold by the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2012 for $4,100,000. The new owners completely overhauled the 3,960-square-foot home into a real showstopper with four bedrooms and roof deck. And they sold it for more than twice what they bought it for.

165 Columbia Heights
Date sold: October 7, 2015
Asking price: $9,950,000
Sale price: $9,800,000
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Sotheby’s International Realty (Gabriele Devlin, Lee Summers)
Read more here ->

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3. This 3,532-square-foot townhouse was sold seven years ago for $3,100,000 as a four-family. It was then renovated back into a single-family. There’s no evidence it ever officially hit the market this past year, but sales records indicate it sold in July for $10,250,000.

81 State Street
Date sold: July 27, 2015
Sale price: $10,250,000
Area: Brooklyn Heights
See it on PropertyShark ->

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2. This Montrose Morris–designed Renaissance Revival townhouse was once owned by Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany. The 5,243-square-foot house has six bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, and is about 23 feet wide. One of the parlor fireplaces is faced in onyx. The dining room has a glorious coffered ceiling, panelling, and built-ins on steroids. The range is La Cornue, and the passthrough-sink area (slash dressing room) is palatial — just for starters.

17 Prospect Park West
Date sold: June 26, 2015
Asking price: $14,000,000
Sale price: $12,400,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Pamela Huson)
See it here ->

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1. This record-breaking deal set the new bar for the highest price paid for a single-family home in Brooklyn. The 10,000-square-foot Cobble Hill carriage house contains an elevator, a screening room that seats 20 people, a 2,600-square-foot roof garden, an outdoor kitchen, gym, wine cellar and bar. It caught the eye of photographer Jay Maisel, who notably sold his previous home, a former bank famed for its graffiti, at 190 Bowery in Manhattan for $55,000,0000.

177 Pacific Street
Date sold: May 29, 2015
Sale price: $15,500,000
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Alexander Maroni)
See it here ->

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