Halstead Property

Dan Danielli
Sr. Vice President
Park Avenue Flagship
Tel: (212) 381-3325
ddanielli@halstead.com

Residential Deals

Upper West Side
$495,000
250 West 94th Street
1-bedroom, 1-bathroom, 850 sf co-op in prewar elevator building (the Stanton); 24-hour doorman; unit has windowed galley kitchen and interior courtyard exposure, and needs gut renovation; building has gym, roof deck, courtyard and live-in super; maintenance $834 per month; 41 percent tax-deductible; asking price $499,000; three weeks on the market. (Broker: Dan Danielli, Halstead Property)

"The apartment was a complete wreck. It was an estate sale, and the executor had hung on to the apartment for almost four years after her brother died because she just couldn't part with it. It was just atrocious -- dusty, filthy, jammed from floor to ceiling with all kinds of stuff. I had the executor hire someone to create a path in there so there was room to walk. It was a third-floor apartment facing the courtyard, and there was a tree branch that had literally started to grow into the bedroom -- it had cut in through the window. It was so scary on the inside that I would just unlock the door, flip on the light switch and wish the buyers luck. We didn't bother to take any interior photos for the listing. There wasn't even enough space to take a picture. It turns out the people who bought it already lived in the building so they knew what it was worth, but aside from them we were getting such insulting bids from the people who came -- in the high $300,000s and low $400,000s." -- Dan Danielli, Halstead Property

Sunday, May 01, 2011