Mark Ruffalo Loses $375K On Carroll Gardens Townhouse Sale

CARROLL GARDENS, BROOKLYN — Stars, they lose money on Brooklyn real estate just like us! Actor Mark Ruffalo took a nearly $400,000 loss on the recent sale of a townhome in Carroll Gardens.

Ruffalo — who played the Hulk in "The Avengers" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and played reporter Michael Rezendes in "Spotlight" — sold his home on Sackett Street, between Court and Smith streets, for $3.125 million in April, city records show.

That was a sizable drop from the $3.5 million that city records show he paid in October of 2015. The sale was handled by a private trust managed by Stuart Gelwarg, Mansion Global reported.

The 2,856 square-foot home sits on a 1,667 square-foot lot, according to a listing on realtor.com.

Ruffalo is finishing up a stint on Broadway as the lead in Arthur Miller's "The Price," the last showing of which is May 14.

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Ruffalo's loss, though, shouldn't be taken as some sign of impending doom in neighborhood real estate prices, according to recent market analyses.

One, from The Corcoran Group, reported that the median sale price of homes in Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill and Red Hook in the first quarter of 2017 was $1.158 million, a 31 percent increase from the first quarter of last year. The average price per square foot was $1,122 in first quarter 2017, up 9 percent from the same time last year.

Another report from Douglas Elliman found similar results. The median sale price in Northwest Brooklyn during the first quarter of 2017 was up 18.6 percent compared to that period last year, the Elliman said.

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