A veteran of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is maintaining it transferring.
Patrick Killackey, the deputy director of strategic initiatives at New York Metropolis Transit, discovered a purchaser for his Brooklyn Heights townhouse asking nearly $7 million, in accordance with Compass’ report on contracts signed in Brooklyn for properties asking not less than $2 million from Dec. 1 to Dec. 8.
The contract for his house at 40 Orange Avenue was the highest contract signed within the borough final week.
Killackey, who beforehand labored as a deputy chief on the MTA, purchased the house for $4.5 million in 2015, in accordance with public information.
Spanning nearly 3,000 sq. toes and measuring 20 toes large, the house options 5 bedrooms and three bogs. The house has 35 home windows and a rooftop skylight to reap the benefits of its triple exposures. It additionally has each a entrance and facet entrance, in addition to a two-card storage.
Brown Harris Stevens’ Katriona Kearney had the itemizing.
The second priciest contract final week went to a Park Slope townhouse at 233 Garfield Place asking nearly $5 million.
The vendor, serial entrepreneur Matthew Britton, purchased the house for $4.25 million in 2014.
The townhouse is at the moment configured as a triplex on prime of a two-bedroom backyard residence, which leads instantly out to the yard. The upstairs major suite incorporates a marble rest room with a soaking tub and separate bathe and a windowed walk-in closet.
The renovated house options authentic particulars like hardwood flooring with mahogany inlay and 4 wood-burning fireplaces, and fashionable updates like central heating and cooling.
Corcoran’s Jackie Torren and Charlie Pigott had the itemizing.
There have been 23 contracts signed final week — eight condos and 15 townhouses — for nearly $73 million, up from the previous week, which saw 19 contracts signed for $56 million.
Final 12 months, there have been 19 contracts signed for over $92 million the week after Thanksgiving.
Houses put into contract final week had a median asking value of $2.85 million, a median low cost of 1 p.c and spent a median of 78 days in the marketplace.
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