110-Lefferts-Place-0208.jpgThe case of 110 Lefferts Place exemplifies why house-flipping can be a tricky business. The current owner paid $950,000 for the five-story brownstone (which is “not in move-in condition,” according to the listing) last August, suggesting he probably went into contract in May or June. He put the house back on the market in January for $1,100,000, which would have been enough to earn a good return on his equity given that he had managed to finance more than $900,000 of the original purchase. Just last week however, the price was cut to $950,000, meaning that with the broker’s fee, his equity will be wiped out. This stuff always sounds good on the way up.
110 Lefferts Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark


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  1. “This area is not so fringe. You don’t have million dollar shell in fringe areas. Now BS where I live and CH thats really fringe. For now away way”

    This is bedsty by some peoples definition of Grand as the border and a few feet from it according to those who say Classon is the border.

    “Is this house in a nice part of clinton hill?”

    Two kids were shot on this street on Christmas Eve. Maybe that’s why the buyer decided to cut and run.

  2. I so want to buy one of these in a fringe neighborhood (but up and coming neighborhood), take 2 years to totally renovate the place and then decide whether to sell or live there. But I’m not going to do that for $900K for a shell when I want to put another 500K to $1 million into it. It’ll be interesting to see if this even sells for this price. I’m thinking it is going to go for closer to $600K than $900K.

  3. 2:56 can we get back to the house? Is this house in a nice part of clinton hill?

    It’s actually on a fantastical street that only runs three blocks, has a funky old hotel (not sure if it is still functioning as one) and an incredible free standing Victorian. It’s actually one of my favorite streets in Brooklyn.

  4. I think your wording made is sound liek you KNEW this was a flip job. I must think most short term turnarounds are because of death/divorce/job transfer/kid got into Dalton and youre moving uptown/inheritance/lotto/job loss/leg less and NOT flip jobs.

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