This 3/2 Craftsman at 1528 McGee Avenue has lots of original detailing, including a clinker-brick fireplace, wood-paneled walls, built-ins, pocket door and beamed ceilings. There’s an eat-in kitchen with skylight and a large backyard awaiting a gardener’s touch.
Read about it over on Berkeleyside.
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Northbrae Craftsman in Need of TLC
Coming Soon: New Home for Bay Area Big-Wig
Lotus founder Mitchell Kapor last week secured approval to build a large, contemporary-design home on Rose Street in north Berkeley.
Read about it on the Block today.
So Many Homes, Only One is Right
As an open-house aficionado, I will go and snoop around villas and Craftsmen homes, mid-modern ranches and cottages without the excuse that I am actually on the hunt for a new abode.
Some bona fide house seekers might see literaly hundreds of homes before settling on the “right one”.
Read more on my Block post today.
Berkeley Hills Home So Ready to Sell
It’s been a long haul for the owners of 1400 Westview Drive in Berkeley.
They first listed their home in November 2008 for $1,495,000. A full year later, agents have come and gone, they have tried the FSBO route, there have been price chops, (and again), and the house in the hills is now listed for $1,195,000.
Designed [...]
A $499,000 Berkeley Cottage With Appeal
There’s something undeniably attractive — on paper at least — about this recently listed three -bedroom Berkeley cottage at 2912 Deakin Street — not least its $499,000 price tag.
Built in 1910, and originally at the front of its lot, it is now one of four condo-homes and is set back from the street. There are [...]
A Place in Tahoe I Know Well
Bias alert — there will be absolutely no objectivity involved in reviewing this new listing in Tahoe Donner, Truckee.
For this 4/3.5 vacation home at 14110 Glacier View Road is a place I know well, thanks to the fact it is owned by a relative who has generously allowed yours truly and her family to spend [...]
Homeland for Home Girl
Home Girl is taking a vacation to the old country and will no doubt be seeing many homes like those above for the next three weeks. Postings will be infrequent, if at all.
We hope you enjoy the rest of your summer and look forward to being back on the East Bay home front in the [...]
Shaved Prices on Berkeley Homes
Two high-end Berkeley homes have undergone price chops.
The modern makeover at 2914 Piedmont Avenue in The Elmwood (above) is down to $1,695,000 from $1,800,000 after 41 days on the market. See Home Girl’s take on it here.
And 14 The Uplands, in the Claremont neighborhood, which last time we checked in had been delisted, is back [...]
And It Goes On: The 12-Day Sale
Reader John McChesney-Young points to another Berkeley home that looks like it found a buyer in just 12 days.
The 3/1.5 home at 424 Grizzly Peak Boulevard (above) looks cute — I particularly like that pretty courtyard — and its $659,000 asking price was certainly sweet.
It’s not all “no longer for sale than sold”, though. McChesney-Young [...]
Positively Flying off the Shelves in Berkeley
Oh housing market, how you confound us.
Another Berkeley home has disappeared off the MLS almost as soon as it was listed.
The 6+ bedroom, 4,000 sq ft+ home at 14 The Uplands in the Claremont ‘hood – whose beautiful front-yard swing has been keeping local children busy while the home stood ready for sale — was [...]