Park Slope Townhouse Tops Brooklyn Luxury Contracts

Townhouses’ total reign atop Brooklyn’s luxury contracts has come to an end.

The property type still dominated the top half of the most expensive contracts from July 8 to July 14, but the second priciest listing to sign a deal went to a condo, according to Compass’ report on properties asking $2 million or more. The week marks the first time the top two contracts in Brooklyn worth over $2 million aren’t both townhouses since the last full week of May.

In total, 24 properties, including 10 condos and 12 townhouses, went into contract for a total deal volume of $87.55 million. That’s up from the same period last year, when 19 contracts were signed for a total deal volume of over $59 million.

The top contract went to a Park Slope townhouse at 882 Carroll Street, asking $9.75 million.

Douglas Elliman’s Lindsay Barton Barrett had the listing.

The broker said that the 9,466-square-foot house is “deceptively large” and “almost completely maxed out” in terms of its floor-to-area ratio. Its price per square foot was $1,031, under the week’s average price per square foot $1,070.

The seven-bedroom, five-bathroom house was initially listed in April at $10.75 million by interior designer Annie Leslau and her husband, Noam Leslau, before its asking price was cut in June. Barrett said the sellers had taken the house off the market before it went into a contract with a buyer who had seen it on the market and waited to make an offer.

The couple, who were featured in a Wall Street Journal article about a wave of Park Slope townhouses hitting the market, told the Journal they gut-renovated the property in 2018 after purchasing it in 2017 for over $4 million.

The second priciest home to go into contract was Penthouse 1C at 50 Bridge Park in Brooklyn Heights, asking just shy of $8 million. The three-bed, five-bath condo was built in 2019 and has 2,800 square feet of living space, as well as 630 square feet of outdoor space.

The penthouse duplex has views of the harbor and sits in an amenity-laden building, Quay Tower, with barbecues and firepits, a 2,500-square-foot fitness center, a music room with grand piano and a 24-hour concierge.

The tower itself has been home to several of the borough’s priciest contracts, including a $20.3 million penthouse that topped Brooklyn contracts in 2020.

Serhant’s Jim Hayes had the listing.