Frame house at $4k per sq ft BK Heights!!

Broker trying so hard to hide the square footage. No dimensions on the floor plan!! There is that 6200 sq ft remaining far mentioned as if Landmarks will let you build more than a 1000 sq ft of it if that.

Pretty cool.
$10M for a house that looks inside like the $200k wood frame home my uncle owns in exurban CT.
Added benefit of 20x the taxes, and complete inability to do the serious Reno it needs due to landmarking.

Glad it's been "meticulously preserved" but oh man those stairs..

Ha. I noticed the stairs too but I think it is the carpet which is making it look that crooked.

What do you think it is worth? My gut feel is $3.5mm as the lot is huge and one can add probably 600-1000 sq ft. Of course, I would completely wrong if someone gets a famous architect like Maya Lin who can get approval to get more square footage.

And I am the process of taking down a similar non landmarked underbuilt house in prime BK as it is not uncommon for wood frame structures to be past their useful life after 100 years. In fact DOB asked us to take it down if we wanted to add more than a small extension.

Bought for $345k in 1993. They can afford a price cut

If the seller is really selling additional buildable square footage, they should get approval for the extra square footage from LPC. Or declare the structure unsafe and get permission to rebuild bigger with historic design.

I like the preservation, and it's a charming house for the right people. Stairs aren't perfect by modern standards, but look fine to me (I'm used to old houses). Hate the photoshopping of the back yard though, and a couple of the interiors. Given LPC, I have no idea how you'd expand it, except to blow out the back of the house and lose a lot of yard, and given LPC's concerns about street view, even that would be difficult as so much of the side is visible.

It's been my experience that correctly constructed wood frame houses, reasonably maintained, will last a lot longer then 100 years. (all the beams have to stay dry, bug free, and reasonably untouched though).

I look forward to future threads telling us how expensive it is to build from scratch in prime Brooklyn.

New build is expensive anywhere in the city.

BTW in the past haven't you said it's perfectly ok not to use DOB square footage, and that it's fine to use "extra" from basements, etc?

30, I don't see an square footage on the floor plan. So I am using DOB/F square footage which will usually include legal "basement" but not "cellar". Keeping the discussion to 1-3 family ex such condos. I have found DOB/F square footage to be incorrect as well in several cases. Light wells may not be excluded, and extensions may be miscounted. So in my opinion, nothing more transparent than an accurate floor plan when it comes to square footage calculation. And this listing has no dimensions besides for the lot.

Quite a squeeze to get into that powder room.