A media couple-turned-designers’ unique Park Slope house topped Brooklyn’s luxurious market final week.
Pilar Guzman and Chris Mitchell’s townhouse at 757 Carroll Road in Park Slope, final asking $9.5 million, discovered a purchaser, based on Compass’ weekly report of contracts signed asking at the very least $2 million from Dec. 15 to Dec. 21.
The pair have each held numerous influential jobs within the media business through the years, however have additionally dabbled in house improvement and design, with Mitchell pivoting to full-time house design and restoration, based on an writer bio.
Beforehand, Mitchell labored as a writer at Self-importance Honest, the New Yorker and GQ, whereas Guzman was the editor-in-chief of Conde Nast Traveler. Guzman now works because the editorial director of Oprah Every day and O, The Oprah Journal.
The couple purchased their house for $1.5 million in 2004 earlier than itemizing it for over $10 million on the finish of September. Renovated final yr, the 20-foot-wide house options 5 bedrooms and 4 full bogs.
Mitchell and Guzman have renovated 11 homes in total as of final April, together with seven Hamptons houses, based on an interview with Elle Decor. They’ve additionally launched a design e book, “Patina Fashionable.”
Leslie Garfield’s Sophie Smadbeck, Richard Pretsfelder and Matt Lesser had the itemizing.
The second priciest contract final week went to a Brooklyn Heights townhouse at 261 Hicks Road, asking $6.9 million.
Initially constructed as a single-family in 1866, the house was transformed to a three-family in 1969 and has been occupied as a two-family since 1975. The backyard flooring is presently vacant, based on the itemizing description.
The house features a personal courtyard backyard and a third-floor terrace.
Brown Harris Stevens’ Joan Goldberg had the itemizing.
There have been 14 contracts signed final week — six condos, one co-op and 7 townhouses — for over $55 million. That follows 18 contracts signed for $66 million within the earlier interval.
Properties put into contract final week had a median asking value of $3.4 million, spent a mean of 147 days in the marketplace and on common had no low cost.
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