Former Brooklyn Heights Apartment Building Lists as an $18 Million Mansion

A week after a Brooklyn Heights apartment building went on the market pitching itself as a $22 million single-family home, another former rental building in the neighborhood is listing as an $18 million mansion. Previously divided into seven units, the approximately 7,750-square-foot Willow Street townhouse is being converted into a single-family home, according to listing agent Terry Naini of Town Residential. Developer Shahrzad Khayami of AscentSeven purchased the house, located in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, in 2014 for $6.8 million and has spent the past two years rebuilding it. Ms. Khayami declined to specify how much the renovation is costing; the project is expected to be completed in September. Ms. Khayami said she restored the façade but rebuilt the interior, which has five floors plus a cellar and a roof deck, all accessed by an elevator. There are seven bedrooms: The master suite has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and two walk-in closets, as well as a meditation room. The roof terrace, with views of the Manhattan skyline, has a wet bar and refrigerator. The wine room is located in the cellar. Ms. Khayami is also adding a dumbwaiter to carry food from the kitchen to the dining room on the parlor floor. Ms. Khayami said there’s demand for large houses in Brooklyn Heights, much of it driven by families sending their children to Brooklyn private schools. ​The highest-priced residential sale in Brooklyn to date was the 2015 sale of a brick townhouse in Cobble Hill for $15.5 million, according to real estate appraiser Jonathan Miller of Miller Samuel. This article originally appeared on The Wall Street Journal.