OuterB on Queens Real Estate

Bayside
Co-op: 2 bedroom/1 bath
$265,000
74-48 220th, #Upper
Sunday August 12, 1-4pm
NY Times Listing [Century 21]

Elmhurst
Condo: 2 bedroom/1 bath
$359,000
Queens Palace, 87-14 57 Rd., #5
Saturday August 11, 3-5:30 pm
Sunday August 12, 3-5:30 pm
NY Times Listing [NY Times Web Listing]

Forest Hills
Co-op: 1 bedroom/1 bath
$325,000
Essex House, Essex Hous 111-15 75th Ave, #3J
Sunday August 12, 12-3pm
NY Times Listing [NY Times Web Listing]

Long Island City
CityLights: 2 bedroom/2 bath
$829,000
4-74 48th Ave, #5AA
Saturday August 11, 1-2pm
Sunday August 12, 1-2pm
NY Times Listing [Prudential Douglas Elliman]

Middle Village/Glendale
House: 4 bedroom/2.5 bath
$799,000
84-50 Goldington Ct
Sunday August 12, 1-4pm
NY Times Listing [Coldwell Banker]

Here’s a one-time favor. A family in Middle Village is selling their home — not exactly FSBO. They say there’s a deal with the broker. He sells it, his commission. They sell it, no $ for him. Amazing. Here are the details:

Open House by Owner
Saturday, April 21, 2007 - 2-4 pm
Large, Detached, Legal 2 Family Brick Tudor
84-79 84th Place Middle Village, NY (Gmap)
Corner of Goldington Court.
House is 24′x46′ Lot 31 x 100
Fully Finished Basement with Large Private Yard
$840,000 Call Owner for details 917-533-2800

• New (7th) Contract Amendment at 44-27 Purves Street [Queens West]
• Metro/Grand plan set to start [Daily News]
• Con Ed Says Repairs To Electric Grid May Take Seven Months [NY 1]
• N, W Subway Lines Ranked Worst In City [Chronicle]

• Soudview Point in College Point Designed With Feng Shui - They Say [Courier]
• 2 Small Queens Hospitals in a Struggle for Survival [NY Times]
• Middle Village Rezone
  Meeting [Daily News]
• Too Biz-y to Develop Flushing’s Iron Triangle? [Daily News]
• Landlords - Hey, We’re Not Villains [Daily News]
• April Housing Starts Slow [Money]

The Shops at Atlas Park is a mall in development in the heart of old-school Queens. It’s in Glendale at the border of Middle Village.

Borders bookstore just announced they’ll open up there in the fall of 2006.

The real story is that retailers woke up to the money in these neighborhoods. They’re getting over the misperception that Queens is low-brow, low-income. Do you think that Queens Center Mall’s rep as the mall with the highest-revenue per square foot in the U.S. has anything to do with that?

• The Shops at Atlas Park

Two-Family in Middle Village, $779,000, 61-21 69th Lane, Middle Village, Open House: 1/7-1/8/06, 1-3 pm. Craigslist post and details. Middle Village continues to see a rise in real estate values, with many local families thrilled about the upcoming downzoning.

This two-family is in what real estate agents sell as "Upper Middle Village" and it generally has more single-family and detached homes. Not on this block. It’s all attached 1960 and 1970s housing (though a couple blocks away there are beautiful brick homes from the 1920s). There’s a subway and even better an express bus very close.

MIDDLE VILLAGE $550,000

67-33 Eliot Ave, Middle Village, NY 

Attached two-family brick house on a 20-by-121-foot lot, with two-bedroom,
one-bath unit with eat-in kitchen over one-bedroom, one-bath unit with eat-in
kitchen; property features new windows, new roof, private driveway and attached
one-car garage. Taxes $2,975. Asking price $569,000, on market four weeks.
(Broker: Anthony Carollo, Carollo Real Estate) Source: NY Post 11/26/05

Two-family semiattached house in Astoria, $699,000,
21-30 29th Ave, Astoria, NY.  Open House: August 27, 2005,  10 am. 
Listed by owner, 2-car garage. If this place is in good shape, it could be a great deal for a two-family in Astoria. The location is very busy and commercial. More housing has come in over the last few years, though it’s still not the best residential area in Astoria. It’s right around the corner from Astoria Park and very close to the subway.  See the Craigslist posting.

Three-family attached house in Middle Village, $959,000 Middle Village, NY, Open House: August 27, 1 - 3 pm.  The property is very close to the M subway terminus, on main street Metropolitan. It’s also next to cemeteries, so if you’re into feng shui, avoid this open house and the neighborhood. Cemetery-land Middle Village has a lot of pluses, but is very congested with the living and dead. See the Craigslist posting.