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# Conflicting Ideas On The 2012-2013 Housing Market In Kensington & Ditmas Park
- URL: https://bklyner.com/conflicting-ideas-on-the-2012-2013-housing-market-in-kensington-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2014-01-27T22:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-01-27T22:20:00.000Z
- Author: Nora Whelan
- Tags: #API-Imported

![westminster landmarked houses](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/IMG_1822-533x399.jpg)

As people who compile real estate roundups on a weekly basis and are [consistently surprised by how the rapidly the reasonably-priced apartment pool is narrowing](/blog/tag/apartments), we just assumed prices on local residential properties for sale were rising accordingly (a la [114 Wesminster Road](/blog/real-estate/114-westminster-road-sells-after-13-years-for-2m), [147 Rugby Road](/blog/real-estate/top-5-biggest-residential-sales-in-ditmas-park-in-the-last-10-years-sponsored), the [gorgeous but worse for wear 551 E 19th Street](/blog/holidays/local-haunts-10-spine-tingling-spots-to-visit-in-around-ditmas-park), which apparently just [closed at above the $1.399 million asking](http://bktothefullest.blogspot.com/2014/01/stylin-in-ditmas-616-east-19th-street.html?ref=bklyner.com), and the asking price on [100 Rugby Road](/blog/real-estate/the-next-huge-flatbush-sale-2-275-million-for-100-rugby-road))–but [a new report from the Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/big-prices-homes-citywide-article-1.1589737?ref=bklyner.com), brought to our attention by neighbor James Heineman, says otherwise.

The text of the article says for all the Brooklyn neighborhoods in which sale prices soared from 2012-2013, Ditmas Park and Kensington actually saw some price cuts with 17% and 4% drops respectively.

These decreases, says the paper, left 2013 Ditmas Park median home prices at $375,000 and Kensington ones at $250,000\. The accompanying map, however, says the median home price in both areas marked 11226 rose 9% to $361,338 over the same time period, and both areas marked 11218 dropped 7% to $330,167.

The discrepancies are confusing between the neighborhood labels vs zip codes we’d attribute to each, but then again, [there are a lot of different names and overlapping “borders” for our area](/blog/opinion/when-it-comes-to-ditmas-park-whats-in-a-name). If you’ve been looking to buy in our area, have you noticed in increase or fall in 11226 and 11218 home prices since starting your search?