Pulse Real Estate: First Time Buyer Bootcamp, Affordable Artist Studios Lottery, & Stoop of the Week
This Week’s Top News & Property Picks around the neighborhood (Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Gowanus)
Is 2025 Your Year for Home Ownership?
This week we’re excited to welcome Nikki Thomas, a Park Slope local and Licensed Real Estate Salesperson with Corcoran. Nikki specializes in helping first-time buyers navigate the journey to finding their dream home. Recently, her work and her happy clients in Park Slope were highlighted in The New York Times’ column, The Hunt:
Earlier this year, Abbie Lin and Shaman Kothari were faced with a conundrum. A new owner had taken over their apartment building in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, and was refusing to renew the leases of any of the tenants.
Eager to get up to speed on the process, they signed up for a first-time home buyer “boot camp” hosted by Nikki Thomas, a broker at Corcoran who eventually became their agent.
“These seminars are to prepare people for the buying process but also help them figure out whether or not they’re ready to buy in the first place,” Ms. Thomas said.
Curious to learn more about the First Time Buyer Bootcamp?: Click here to read the full article [Sponsored]
Top Real Estate News
Here’s a quick roundup on real estate news happening around this part of Brooklyn:
“The most expensive condo in Brooklyn is on the market, for $19.5 million. The full-floor penthouse is located at Olympia DUMBO, which counts Joe Jonas and Ben Simmons as residents.” [Galerie Magazine]
Photo credit: Pavel Bendov “A lottery for six affordable artist studios in Gowanus— the first of more than 100 such studios slated to come to the neighborhood in the next few years — is now open. The studios, built as part of a Community Benefits Agreement signed ahead of the Gowanus rezoning, are set to open this spring at a new coworking space, The Shop, at 420 Carroll St.
Priced at around $1.66 per square foot per month, the studios will rent for between $275 and $331 per month, or $3,300 and $3,800 annually. Per the CBA, rents can only increase by 2% per year.” [Brooklyn Paper]
According to StreetEasy market insights for 2024, Park Slope was the 5th most-searched neighborhood and had the 10th-highest median asking price ($1,750,000; +9% year-over-year). Nearby neighborhoods Carroll Gardens (3rd), Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and DUMBO also made the top 10 in highest median asking prices.
Park Slope was the 2nd most competitive NYC neighborhood based on number of buyer inquiries (West Village was 1st) - followed by Cobble Hill, Prospect Heights, Carroll Gardens, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn Heights. [StreetEasy]
Stoop of the Week
“It was designed for William B. Croynyn by Patrick Keely in 1856, probably one of his first commissions.
At the time, Park Slope was suburbia, and country villas of this kind were built as retreats for busy successful businessmen like Croynyn, who was a successful Wall Street man. The house remained in the Croynyn family only until 1862.
The house was designated an individual New York City landmark in 1978. In 1981, jazz musician and teacher Charles Sibirsky and his wife purchased the house, and opened Slope Music. Architect Eric Safyan restored the entryway and the decorative ironwork cresting, and built a new rear deck.” - Suzanne Spellen, architectural historian [Brownstoner]
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Recommended listings are a little slim this week, and so we will share our top listings again next week!