Big Ticket | Sold for $11,000,000
The brownstone at 212 Columbia Heights has 7,000 square feet of space.
A five-story Italianate brownstone in Brooklyn Heights with sweeping views of the New York Harbor and Manhattan skyline that sold for $11 million was the biggest sale of the week, according to city records, and the highest price ever in the neighborhood.
The 7,000 square-foot, seven-bedroom home, at 212 Columbia Heights, has five gas fireplaces, 14-foot-high ceilings on the parlor floor and “a stunning garden facing the Brooklyn Heights Promenade,” according to the listing on the Corcoran Group Web site.
The seller, according to city records, is Nina Collins, a literary agent. When she bought the home with Marek Fludzinski, a hedge fund manager, in 2005, they paid $8.5 million, then the highest price for a town house in Brooklyn.
When it went back on the market last year, the price was set at $13.5 million.
In the end, the price came down and the home was bought through a limited liability company, shielding the buyer’s identity.
Leslie Marshall, a broker at Corcoran who represented the sellers along with her colleague James Cornell, declined to comment.
Although the sale produced a substantial gain for the sellers, it is nothing compared with the profit realized by the previous owners. Those owners, Calvert Douglas Crary and Kinga P. Crary, paid some $200,000 for the town house back in 1972. Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.
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