Ditmas Park has a brand new residence file.
The house at 1221 Albemarle Highway within the Brooklyn neighborhood offered for $6.25 million, going for $250,000 over its final asking worth and setting a Ditmas Park file within the course of.
Inbuilt 1904, the Colonial Revival-style residence at 1221 Albemarle has a lot of restored unique touches from the period, together with its parquet flooring, ornamental moldings and woodwork, a central staircase and stained-glass home windows.
The six-bedrooms, three-bathroom residence has a bluestone patio within the yard, a facet backyard with automated irrigation, and a two-car storage and driveway.
Different touches embrace a front room with a wood-burning fire and a library with built-in bookshelves, a rolling ladder and one other fire. The first suite encompasses a skylit rest room with a soaking tub, limestone flooring and a customized sauna.
The house is on a broad, parkway-style stretch of street identified for its freestanding Victorian-style houses. The neighborhood evokes the suburbs within the metropolis’s most populous borough, which was the intent of Dean Alvord when he deliberate the neighborhood within the early 1900s.
The sale far surpasses the earlier file, which was set when one other stately residence at 260 Westminster Highway offered for $3.8 million final 12 months.
Comparable trades within the neighborhood are sparse and lots of the century-old houses have fallen into critical disrepair. A $2.3 million listing at 1000 Ocean Avenue has drawn consideration particularly as a result of its crumbling, dirt-covered facade.
Redfin pegs the median residence worth within the space at $2.5 million, however that worth is predicated on simply two residence gross sales.
The house at 1221 Albemarle benefited from a lot of considerate renovations to the facade, interiors and techniques because it was final offered for $2.4 million in 2019.
The updates included a brand new cedar roof and restored the cedar siding and trim, a rebuilt porch to its unique design, and a rebuilt fire and chimney. The house owners additionally added in-floor radiant heating, central A/C, a brand new wastewater system and a brand new boiler, amongst different system updates.
The property was initially listed for $6.5 million in Might 2025.
“There was a gradual appreciation of residence values throughout that point, however I’ve all the time felt the values ought to be increased given what the neighborhood presents,” Compass’ Laura Rozos, who had the itemizing, stated in a press release.
The house can also be simply blocks away from the Victorian mansion that actor Michelle Williams purchased for $2.5 million in 2015 and set about renovating. The house, which deed transfers present now belongs to the actor’s onetime boyfriend, writer Jonathan Safran Foer, was listed for lease final 12 months for $35,000.
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