Carriage Houses, Elevators and a Clock Tower: Brooklyn's Top 10 Biggest Home Sales of 2017

Brooklyn’s most expensive home has still not been topped.

Although a few came very, very close — one just $500,000 shy, in fact — nothing beat the current record, held by the 10,000-square-foot Cobble Hill carriage house photographer Jay Maisel purchased for $15.5 million in 2015.

Brooklyn Heights dominates the list with seven homes, with a smattering of others in Dumbo, Park Slope and Boerum Hill. The most expensive home on the list was $15 million, according to data provided to Brownstoner by PropertyShark, which is almost $4 million over the highest home sale last year, a fairly ordinary looking 20th century bungalow in Gravesend.

Speaking of Gravesend, while homes in the Syrian Jewish enclave made the list the last two years, they are completely absent this year.

And if you’re looking for trends, at least three of the buyers of the properties on the list are art collectors.

10. 323 Pacific Street — $7.875 million

Yes, the look of this decked-out Boerum Hill home was inspired by 19th-century stables, but with a whopping 5,895 square feet of space, this newly built townhouse is vastly larger and dramatically more luxurious than the area’s average historic horse home. This townhouse sold in May for $7.875 million to Stephen Maharam, the COO of textile company Maharam Fabric, and his wife Camila Pastor.

9. 31 Garden Place — $8.35 million

Built in 1846, the 2,225-square-foot Gothic Revival brick townhouse at 31 Garden Place in Brooklyn Heights sold in August for $8.35 million. It was last sold a year earlier, for $8 million.

8. 165 Columbia Heights — $8.7 million

This now-swanky Brooklyn Heights carriage house with a much-photographed facade was sold by the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2012 for $4.1 million. The new owners completely overhauled the 3,960-square-foot home and sold it for $9.8 million in 2015. It sold again in November for $8.7 million, which was $1.2 million below the asking price.

7. 14 College Place — $9.575 million

This former garage at 14 College Place in Brooklyn Heights, a 25-foot-wide single-family home we featured as a House of the Day back in 2012, boasts a roof terrace, garage and elevator. It sold in September for $9.575 million, which was $925,000 less than the initial asking price.

6. 130 Furman Street #S401 — $10.248 million

This three-bedroom condo in the Pierhouse, one of Brooklyn’s most controversial developments, sold in July for $10.248 million. It has 3,407 square feet of private outdoor space, according to the original listing, with waterfront views.

5. 90 Furman Street #N1000 — $10.669 million

Another Pierhouse condo, this time next door at 90 Furman Street, sold for $10.669 million in March to Stephanie Ingrassia, president of the board of the Brooklyn Museum, and her husband Timothy, co-chairman of mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs. The two art collectors own a number of other properties in Brooklyn Heights, including homes at 12 Middagh Street and 140 Columbia Heights that they purchased in 2006.

4. 146 Willow Street — $11.5 million

It would have set a record if it sold for the initial ask of $18 million. But after chopping the price down to $16 million, this lavishly appointed, over-the-top mansion at 146 Willow Street sold in November for $11.5 million. Developer Shahrzad Khayami, head of real estate firm AscentSeven, purchased 146 Willow Street for $6.8 million in 2014 and set the renovation in motion, amidst controversy.

3. 45 Montgomery Place — $12.6 million

Everything about this 1890s brick and limestone Park Slope mansion, a former House of the Day at 45 Montgomery Place, is big. It’s over 30 feet wide, for starters, and 65 feet deep. It’s got two dining rooms, two living rooms and six bedrooms, and not a one is small.

In 2005, prerenovation, it was put up for sale for $7.5 million, at the time an unheard-of price in the neighborhood; it went for just north of $6 million. Then it was listed for $14 million in 2013, and sold for $10.775 million —- at the time a neighborhood record. The latest sale, for $12.6 million in July, missed the mark on breaking any records.

2. 27 Monroe Place — $12.9 million

This five-story brick building at 27 Monroe Place was one of a group of properties Kushner Companies purchased in 2014 from the Brooklyn Law School and transformed into single-family homes. Said to be built in 1844, 27 Monroe Place sold in April 2017 for $12.9 million, which was $3.1 million below the original asking price.

1. 1 Main Street #16 — $15 million

After nine years on the market, the penthouse on top of Dumbo’s Clock Tower building at 1 Main Street finally sold in April for $15 million, which was a discount of $10 million below the original asking price. The buyer is the Colombian-born art dealer Lio Malca, according to the Real Deal.

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