A 25-foot-wide Brooklyn residence has sold for $14.99 million, Gimme Shelter can reveal.
It’s the borough’s highest residential sale of the year so far, and it follows another townhouse sale at 170 Clinton St., which fetched a cool $14 million last month.
This turn-of-the-century brick townhouse, at 307 Hicks St., was built around 1910. At 6,200 square feet, the home, filled with modern interiors, features five bedrooms and seven baths. The buyer, we hear, is a Manhattan-based finance family.
Carlos Saavedra and Nicole Eckstrøm.
The single-family spread was converted from a four-family dwelling.
The interior boasts an elegant aesthetic. Eckstrøm
Both townhouses are in tony Brooklyn Heights, now being rediscovered for its quiet luxury style and family feel, with good private and public schools nearby.
Both homes were also developed by Brooklyn-based Eckstrøm, co-founded by power couple Carlos Saavedra and Nicole Eckstrøm. The firm focuses exclusively on restoring and “reimagining” historic Brooklyn townhouses, “balanc[ing] preservation with modern luxury residential development,” according to its website.
The Hicks Street townhouse was designed in a modern, minimalist style with natural materials in collaboration with FXCollaborative — plus plenty of hidden storage space.
The space fills with sunlight. Eckstrøm
A view of the dining space. Eckstrøm
Design details include wide-plank ash wood floors by Dinesen, imported from Denmark, new windows and a custom chef’s kitchen.
Eckstrøm purchased 307 Hicks St. for $5.1 million in 2024. At the time it was a four-story, four-family building. Planning to convert the structure into single-family townhouse status, the developers listed it later that year first for $14.25 million and then for $15.5 million.
The pair, who have a background in design and real estate, got into the developing business while searching for their own family home in Brooklyn in 2019.