Former Navy boarding house tops Brooklyn’s luxury market

A former Navy boarding house topped Brooklyn’s luxury market last week.

The Boerum Hill townhouse, priced at $7 million, was the priciest home in the borough to find a buyer between Oct. 23 and Oct. 29, according to Compass’ weekly report. Overall, 18 Brooklyn homes asking $2 million or more went into contract last week, up from 11 the week before.

Built in 1920, the renovated home at 82 Dean Street spans five floors and has four bedrooms and four bathrooms. It also features a patio garden, fourth-floor terrace, rooftop deck and home automation system.

Ryan Serhant and Maggie Chong had the listing.

The 20-foot-wide townhouse, which hit the market in April, housed Navy veterans after World War II. Metro Loft’s chief marketing officer Mitchell Wasser and his wife, Samantha Haber — co-founder of the vegan restaurant chain By Chloe — renovated the former single-room occupancy in 2017 after it had been vacant for five years.

Haber had purchased the run-down property for $1.75 million in 2014 and got permits a year later to make it a 6,000-square-foot, single-family home, NY Yimby reported, but the home stands at 3,500 square feet.

The second most expensive home to enter into contract was 236 Degraw Street in Cobble Hill, with an asking price of $6.8 million. The 5,400-square-foot home has seven bedrooms and four bathrooms.

The townhouse features a rear garden, radiant heated floors, central air conditioning and home office. Brown Harris Stevens’ Terry Naini had the listing.

Row houses in Brownstone Brooklyn often notch top spots in the borough’s weekly contract reports. In March, 355 President Street, last asking $5.3 million, was the second most expensive home to enter contract in Brooklyn. 

Of the 18 contracts signed for luxury Kings County homes last week, seven were for condos, 10 were for townhouses and one was for a co-op.

The average asking price was $3.3 million with an average price per square foot of $1,266. The homes spent an average of 88 days on the market and had an average discount of 1 percent from their original listing price.

This article has been updated to clarify the square footage of the home at 82 Dean Street.

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