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Featured Brooklyn Heights Real Estate: $5M Historic Townhouse

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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS , BROOKLYN — This week’s featured real estate listing is a six- bedroom townhouse at 31 Cranberry St. with an asking price of $4,995,000. The four- story townhouse features a landscaped garden, two wood- burning fireplaces and an open kitchen. Check out more photos of the apartment here and be sure to sign up for the Brooklyn Heights Patch daily newsletter to get updates on local news and real estate. From Realtor.com: An opportunity to acquire this four- story townhouse gem in the historic north end of Brooklyn Heights is here. Easily restored back to a single-family home, it is currently configured into two duplex homes. This townhouse is in superb condition with style and elegance. It is located on one of the most beautiful blocks in New York City. The Parlor Garden Duplex has 3 bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms. The landscaped garden is accessed through the French doors on the garden level or to the deck through French doors off the parlor level bedrooms . This...

Why empty nesters are moving to Brisbane’s inner city

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Sponsored Content rise residential developments in recent years." /> Brisbane has seen a proliferation of high- rise residential developments in recent years. At one time Brisbane wore a reputation as the last, true east coast bastion of the quarter-acre block – a time, not so long ago, when many developers focused on delivering the Australian dream as a three- or four-bedroom home with a landscaped garden front and back.  How those times have changed.   Interstate migration, the need to mitigate the transport and infrastructure pressures of vast urban sprawl , and a more visionary approach to inner-city planning have all triggered the growth of Brisbane upward rather than outward. Investment in cultural precincts like South Bank have increased the appeal of inner-city living. Photo: Bradley Kanaris There is little doubt that, for most people familiar with the city, the biggest change in the past decade has been to the skyline with a proliferation of high- rise residenti...