The Bushwick Real Estate Roundup is back…but I realized why I haven’t been doing it. It takes forever! Enjoy.

$619,000 | 2-family | 400 Woodbine Street | map
This is a great little brick house on an intact block right by the Myrtle-Wyckoff station. 7 bedroom and 2.5 baths in 2000 sqft — where all that fits, I don’t know. There’s already a tenant upstairs paying $1300 for either a 3 or 4 bedroom apartment, which is…low. Let’s say there’s room for adjustment. Satellite view shows it has a very tiny back yard, but that’s great if you’re not a green thumb and just want a deck to have BBQs on.

$699,000 | 3-family | 40 Palmetto Street | map
Four floors of honest-to-goodness brownstone. Owner’s duplex plus two other apts which I assume are 1/1 each. “Original woodwork and cabinets make this gem a great dwelling place for the right person with the right vision.” Right off Bushwick Avenue, but shares a block with some fugly 1990s infill houses — in fact this property shares a wall with one. Still, at least it’s not the projects, and you’re right near the Gates JZ.

$625,000 | 3-family | 1242 Hancock Street | map
Awesome: 4400sqft brick building in Irving Square, one short-block to the park. “Needs a little TLC” but at this price and size, it’s worth it. This is going to be a big bucks neighborhood in a few years, and if I had the money, I’d be willing put it on this.
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$629,000 | 2-family | 114 Woodbine Street | map
For a change, “detached” doesn’t mean the neighboring house burned down. An okay-looking house with a real porch and columns on a tree-lined block in South Bushwick. True, the projects are around the block, but it’s a long block and they’re not within sight. Looks like a 3/1 and a 2/1 legal, with an apartment in the basement.
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$466,400 | 3-family | 271 Woodbine Street | map
What the hell? Three family house for 466K! Semi-vacant? You mean, too much of a wreck to inhabit (and in Bushwick, that’s bad bad bad)? Okay block just a few-minute walk to Myrtle-Wyckoff. With some hardcore handyman skills, you could wring big bucks out of this place.
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$650,000 | 3-family | 49 & 51 Linden Street | map
These two houses have been for sale for the past year, I don’t know what’s wrong with them but they have great terra cotta and brick facades, and a wee bit of original detail inside from the looks of it. They both are 3 families, but would probably work best as owner’s duplex and floor-through rental. I believe part of the reason these have not sold is that the owner wanted to sell them as a package deal for 1.2 million. Nobody bit so they’re being sold separately for $650K apiece. This is how much they wanted last year, which I felt was too rich for my blood, but it could very well be a lovely house. It’s on the block of Linden between Broadway and Bushwick Ave, which is really beautiful (ask Kevin!), and although these houses look out onto an uninspiring apartment building, they’re right around the corner from some of the best mansions on Bushwick Ave. Far enough down the block that J train noise should be too bad, and the Gates station lets out right on the corner of Linden. PShark (49) PShark (51)

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$599,000 | 2-family | Weirfield & Central | map
I can’t figure out exactly which house this is, I think it’s between Central and Wilson, which makes it a bit of a hike to either J or L trains on Halsey. But it could be a real find for people into detail (and those weird wooden archway lattice things.) The price is officially $599K, but it says the building “CAN BE DELIVERED FULLY RENOVATED” for $649K. I guess it’s nice to have the choice, and I suppose they’d give the buyer some control over how things get fixed up. But it also makes me thinksome stuff in there must be really messed up for them to offer to fix it.

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$599,000 | 3-family | 66 Bleecker Street | map
I like the looks of this house on Bleecker Street because it’s so out of place. It’s a peaked-roof cottage affair squeezed between 6-family frame houses, facing a bunch of low-rise new construction on the other. Despite the way it looks here, Propertyshark lists its square footage at 3300! The building is 22′x50′ for a whopping 1100 sf per floor, plus what appears to be a windowed attic!. But this is misleading, in photos the house doesn’t look any more than 30 feet deep, with an extension on the back that awkwardly adds another 20 feet, but doesn’t appear to span even half the width of the building. On the plus side, there appears to be a shed in the back yard! Gotta love satellite photos. PShark

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$525,000 | 2-family | Bushwick
Somebody buy this sad little house! It’s been on Craigslist forever, I think people are turned off by the Flintstones facade. It’s another one of these “2 family with 3 apartments” conundrums, and the listing helpfully adds that you “can build additional floor.” Why not?

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$1,150,000 | 3-family | 751 Bushwick Ave | map
Everyone’s favorite mansion is still available! Looks like the local brokers have all agreed on a price of $1.15 million (somebody had been offering slightly less recently but I don’t see the listing anymore). It’s all up to you, lil’ lottery ticket. PShark
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$429,000 | 1-family | 1052 Madison Street | map
One of those woodframe “wild west” houses: they look to me like they should be in old ghost towns. This place has most of its exterior detail intact, but I think they changed the porch railings. It’s big for a single-family home: 2350, 4bed/2bath. The two baths makes me think this was originally a two-family. The location is meh but the price is fabulous. A smart person with good credit but modest means could grab this and pack it with roommates.

$599,000 | 1-family | 27 Linden Street | map
Again, a single-family home that must have been more in previous decades: “easy conversion to 2-family.” Six bedrooms, three baths on a great block with some of the best brick houses in Bushwick. “Modern kichens and baths” could be good or bad, depending on the taste of the owner. Expect bad.

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$699,000 | 2-family | 603 Van Buren Street | map
“4 story double duplex fully renovated with all new kitchens, 4 new bathrooms, 10 rooms, 6 bedrooms, 4 original marble fireplaces, all new hardwood floors, open exposed brick on all floors on a quiet residential block close to the J,M subway stop and delivered vacant.” I’m not sure I can add anything else, this place seem great, if a little expensive. The fireplaces alone seem worth it to a dork like me.

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$779,000 | ?-family | 617 Van Buren Street | map
For 779, this better be a three-family. It looks like it has that tan concrete treatment they have on the non-stone portions of brownstones, but they’re not fooling anybody. Nine bedrooms, 3 baths, but a mere 2100sqft. It’s not a bad house, I just think it’s quite overpriced for the size and location.

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$640,000 | 2-family | 78 Linden Street | map
A not-so-cool woodframe further up Linden from #1…but it has three apartments, and hey, people gotta live somewhere. 4 over 3 over 1, 3 baths. Vacant lot next door. Don’t expect the agent to know much of anything — the ad says it’s in Bed-Stuy. But it’s a good price for all those rooms.

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This week’s Bushwick Real Estate Roundup turns out to focus on “SoBu,” as the area south of Myrtle is jokingly called in these pages.

$799,000 | 3-family | 71 Cornelia Street | map
Once again, a gorgeous place dripping with details (outside at least) in the Bushwick Avenue mansion orbit. One of the few times “semi-detached” doesn’t just mean the house next door burned down. I would take this magnificent place over a brownstone any day. 3 over 4 over 3, don’t know the square footage. “New everything” — that worries me, but it could just be the systems. The price is high, but the Bushwick Avenue area is going to be prime in the next 5-10 years. I fully expect landmarking, which kicks gentrification into overdrive.

$619,000 | 3-family | 1150 Halsey Street | map
Okay house on an okay block. It’s three-family but being used as two (which is the opposite of what you normally see in Bushwick), which means there’s a duplex, suggesting it’s likely owner-occupied. Evergreen Avenue and much of Central there is totally gone, replaced by a strip of ugly, dirty buildings belonging to the poorly named Hope Gardens projects, and a few newer private-initiative slap-ups. But if you walk the other way up Halsey, it brings you to the gorgeous Irving Square Park, surrounded by gracious, well-kept brick homes, a stunning school building and a great old church. This will be a hot area once it gets a couple of cafés, and I can see it being called Irving Square in honor of the park. Real estate agents are very predictable.

$660,000 | 2-family | Chauncey Street | map
Gorgeous South Bushwick block, some great details, man this place might be a catch…if only they had a shot of the house itself. Well, there’s an open house this weekend, so you can go see it yourself.

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$499,999 | 2-family | Weirfield Street | map
This place is okay outside, and guessing by the ad’s language, a disaster inside. But it’s a good price and if you have the time/dough, you can whip it into shape and gain some quick sweat equity. Legal two-family but has three apartments, very common. Near nice stretch of Bushwick Avenue, by Halsey J.

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$725,000 | 2-family | Jefferson Avenue | map
Really sweet house, sort of pricey but looks well-renovated. Owner’s duplex and 3-bedroom top floor rental. Near Bushwick Avenue.

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$699,000 | 3-family | 1242 Hancock Street
A beautiful blond brick building in one of Bushwick’s totally-intact historic areas, just one short block to pristine Irving Square. No projects or even schools for several blocks. This is a great find, just needs a good pressure-washing outside…and god knows what else inside. This is Bushwick’s equivalent of a brownstone district.

$680,000 | 3-family | 18 Cooper Street
Down south 3.5 story attractive brick house, 2 blocks to the Chauncey JMZ. Really close to the most bombed-out part of Broadway, though this could also mean a clean slate for the whole neighborhood when developers sniff the place out. A good investment either way.

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$579,000 | 2-family | 504 Hart Street
A great block of Hart Street between Broadway and Bushwick, near some prime Bushwick Avenue mansion stock. Cute little frame house — “finished basement with bath” probably means a whole extra apartment. “Owner anxious.”

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$579,000 | 3-family | 706 Chauncey Street
I love this house — it’s on the same block and of the same style as 720 Chauncey from last week. It’s got great details outside and the price is right for a house this size: 3 over 2 over 2.

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$620,000 | 3-family | “Bleecker Street”
The only reason I am bothering with this, despite the horrible ad devoid of information, is that this is one of those old Bushwick frame houses with a pitched roof that I personally think is so cool. All it says is that it’s on Bleecker, but based on the architecture, I’m going to guess it’s within half a block of Bushwick Avenue.

$649,000 | 2-family | 1238 Bushwick Avenue
This is my partner Luis’ coworker’s house, as it turns out. These girls have really done a great job fixing the place up. The pictures they have up are beautiful. The only problems, I think, are that the other “family” is just a one-bedroom apartment, and this house is WAY down on Bushwick Avenue for the price. A stern offer could make this house worth it for the right person — all the work has been done in this house, for sure.

$675,000 | 2-family | 1405 Hancock Street
Ridgewood-style limestone-brick. Two families, four bathrooms. Very sharp-looking from the outside — these houses are usually on nice blocks.

$549,000 | 2-family | 1066 Halsey Street
Legal 2-family with 3 apartments. Decent location, close to the Halsey J. Cheap.

$699,000 | 3-family | 34 Grove Street
Hard to tell, but I think this might be an actual, honest-to-goodness brownstone. 8 bedrooms and a finished basement, 3.5 stories. Nice-looking neighbors, too.

$729,000 | 1-family | 884 Bushwick Avenue
Fantasy listing: 6-bedroom, single-family full-on brownstone on historic Bushwick Avenue. Look at those windows! Look at those great old parquet floors! Could really be stunning with the right furniture and landscaping in the front.

I’ll be doing a Bushwick Real Estate Roundup once a week, in the same style as the Bushwick Apartment Roundup. This will not include condominiums, which will be on their own Bushwick Condo Roundup (different market, after all).

$660,000 | 2-family | 720 Chauncey Street
Three stories including owner’s duplex. Nice clapboard house with bay front. “Six bedrooms” — could be a 3 over 3 or a 2 over 4. Attractive neighbors!

$390,000 | 1-family | 103 Troutman Street
Great little house! Four bedrooms, two stories, 1320sqft, 25×100 lot means wide house and a big yard in the back. Dirt cheap — cheaper than the studio condos they’re going to be selling down the street. $543 taxes for god’s sake.

$599,000 | 2-family | Halsey Street
Three story house built in 1925, a huge 3276 sqft, on Halsey “two blocks from the J train.” “Lots of original details (fireplaces, moldings and tin ceilings). 3 Bedrooms over 2 bedrooms with patio access over finished basement with backyard access.”

$629,000 | 3-family | “Near L”
Three story limestone-brick house, 9 bedrooms, which I guess means 3 over 3 over 3. No address but by the architecture this is near the Ridgewood border by Wyckoff or on the streets just north of the cemetery. These are nice blocks, lots of trees and well-kept gardens.

$599,000 | 3-family | 1102 Gates Avenue
Beautiful three story brick, 3 over 3 over 2, semi-finished basement. 30 seconds to the J train.