Ditmas Park has a new home record.
The home at 1221 Albemarle Road in the Brooklyn neighborhood sold for $6.25 million, going for $250,000 over its last asking price and setting a Ditmas Park record in the process.
Built in 1904, the Colonial Revival-style home at 1221 Albemarle has a number of restored original touches from the era, including its parquet floors, decorative moldings and woodwork, a central staircase and stained-glass windows.
The six-bedrooms, three-bathroom home has a bluestone patio in the backyard, a side garden with automatic irrigation, and a two-car garage and driveway.
Other touches include a living room with a wood-burning fireplace and a library with built-in bookshelves, a rolling ladder and another fireplace. The primary suite features a skylit bathroom with a soaking tub, limestone floors and a custom sauna.
The home is on a broad, parkway-style stretch of road known for its freestanding Victorian-style homes. The neighborhood evokes the suburbs in the city’s most populous borough, which was the intent of Dean Alvord when he planned the community in the early 1900s.
The sale far surpasses the previous record, which was set when another stately home at 260 Westminster Road sold for $3.8 million last year.
Comparable trades in the neighborhood are sparse and many of the century-old homes have fallen into serious disrepair. A $2.3 million listing at 1000 Ocean Avenue has drawn attention specifically because its crumbling, dirt-covered facade.
Redfin pegs the median home price in the area at $2.5 million, but that price is based on just two home sales.
The home at 1221 Albemarle benefited from a number of thoughtful renovations to the facade, interiors and systems since it was last sold for $2.4 million in 2019.
The updates included a new cedar roof and restored the cedar siding and trim, a rebuilt porch to its original design, and a rebuilt fireplace and chimney. The owners also added in-floor radiant heating, central A/C, a new wastewater system and a new boiler, among other system updates.
The property was originally listed for $6.5 million in May 2025.
“There has been a steady appreciation of home values during that time, but I’ve always felt the values should be higher given what the neighborhood offers,” Compass’ Laura Rozos, who had the listing, said in a statement.
The home is also just blocks away from the Victorian mansion that actor Michelle Williams bought for $2.5 million in 2015 and set about renovating. The home, which deed transfers show now belongs to the actor’s onetime boyfriend, author Jonathan Safran Foer, was listed for rent last year for $35,000.
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