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Post-Brooklyn Real Estate Boom: Three Sales After Initial Listings

This week: revisiting featured listings from six months ago in Park Slope, Greenpoint, and Bay Ridge.

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his week, we revisit four featured listings from six months ago in Park Slope, Greenpoint, and Bay Ridge to see how they fared.

    In the Park Slope Historic District, a renovated 1908 limestone single-family home dropped its price by $335,000 to $5.15 million before entering contract in September. A brick row house in Park Slope sold for $2.75 million in August, $100,000 below its asking price.

    A wood frame house in Greenpoint, set back from the street and configured as a single-family home, entered contract in May and reportedly sold earlier this month, although the sale has yet to be recorded. In Bay Ridge, an early 20th century row house was converted into a single-family home and sold for $1.425 million in July, exceeding its asking price by $75,000.

    605 2nd Street, Park Slope: $5.485 million (Compass)

    Entered contract in September

    259 11th Street, Park Slope: $2.85 million (Compass)

    Sold in August for $2.75 million

    61 Norman Avenue, Greenpoint: $2.75 million (Compass)

    Sold in October

    251 71st Street, Bay Ridge: $1.35 million (Corcoran)

    Sold in July for $1.425 million

Three luxury Brooklyn homes sell quickly after initial listings in competitive market.