The property benefits from a great secure location, with many local... Listed on 24th Feb 2016 by Foxtons - Dulwich, SE22 020 3542 2183 Contact Save Hide This charming and unique one bedroom split-level flat, is presented in fantastic condition throughout and boasts bright and stylish interior with lovely communal patio.
Waking up on board the converted 19th-century ferry steamboat Yellow Ferry, I see an immense wooden paddle wheel fill the giant window of the master bedroom, splitting the sunlight into angled rays.
The lowest-priced resale is a three-bedroom split in the Beechcrest section, at $399,000, the highest a four-bedroom colonial on an acre, at $1.05 million.
For this price, one can get a three-bedroom split level house, built in 1981 on a three-quarter-acre corner lot.
A five-bedroom split nearby, with three new bathrooms and new windows, is on the market for $1,195,000, as is a three-bedroom, three-bath colonial that was renovated in 2000.
In between are a mixture of winterized bungalows selling in the $200,000 range and 30-year-old three-bedroom split levels, bilevels and ranches starting about $320,000 and going up to $400,000 if they have been modernized.
But behind the patchwork vinyl siding and occasional boarded up windows, residents have worked to build their own notion of heaven, Ms. Cortes said "We are not a blighted area," said Ms. Cortes, who bought a four-bedroom split level house on Arthur Avenue 10 years ago for $27,000.
But the average rental of $5,000 a month, and the one most in demand, is for a three-bedroom split level or a ranch on an acre or two that would sell in the $500,000 to $700,000 range, Mrs. Carucci said.
Even if they have full-time jobs, many young people and recent immigrants have to cram into converted spaces that bend or break the rules: warehouses, bedrooms split down the middle, constructed perches in common areas, basements, cellars.
Another four-bedroom split-level house in the Woodside section is currently listed for $468,000.
In North Yonkers, a four-bedroom split-level was purchased in December 1997 for $225,000.
