After triumphantly arriving on the market in October with a bullish price tag of $5.5 million, the Margarido House, a Platinum LEED-certified home in upper Rockridge, saw a harsh $705,000 reduction yesterday, bringing the price down to $4,795,000
This makes the proposition marginally more palatable, but still very much out of whack with homes in the neighborhood. [...]
Posts under ‘Oakland’
Whopping Price Cut for Green Super Home in Oakland
Renters: Time to Bite the Bullet and Buy
According to new research, published in Forbes, renters in the metropolitan area of San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont are in a sweet spot if they are contemplating taking the plunge and becoming homeowners.
Read more about it on my Block post today.
Let’s Talk “Deep Walkability”
Home Girl is a huge fan of walkability — and the need to reduce our dependence on cars. But Walk Scores can be misleading.
Read about “deep walkability” — of which the new listing at 5370 Miles Avenue in Oakland (above) has plenty — on my Block post today.
Chop on Oakland Listing is Price of Average Home
This David Stark Wilson designed home at 5 Woodside Way in the Oakland hills has just had a second price chop bringing its total reduction to $650,000, a sum which would buy you a perfectly decent house in some other Oakland neighborhoods.
The four-bedroom home, built in 1994, has the requisite gourmet kitchen (above), panoramic bridge views, [...]
Mediterranean estate back in spotlight
A languishing mega-estate in the Berkeley-Oakland hills has re-appeared on the market with a slimmed down, although still substantial, price-tag.
We were pondering this substantial home a while back on Home Girl.
Read the latest on 7080 Norfolk Drive, which is now listed for $3,899,000, on the Block today.
New Listing in Those Hybrid Hills
Certainly the most imposing-looking new listing in Berkeley, 630 Gravatt Drive is a 4,032 sq ft, 4/4.5 home on a steep hillside lot which has just listed for $1,595,000.
There’s a separate office and guest suite, a deep lot with level lawn, two garages with interior access, as well as bay and canyon views. As with [...]
What the Median Priced Home Looks Like: East Bay
It could look like the contemporary apartment on the Oakland-Emeryville border pictured above, which his priced at $379,000, a tad under the current median price paid for a Bay Area home which last month was $387,000.
For more details, head on over to the Block.
Wednesday Snippets
Pick of the day: this $425,000 cottage at 2320 Carleton Street in Berkeley (above), which needs TLC, but looks like it might be worth the effort (good bones and all that).
The quintessentially Berkeley house at 2830 Garber Street in the Elmwood has, we are told, had two offers and is expected to sell over its [...]
Tuesday Snippets: Offers, Plaudits and Cuts
The Bernard Maybeck designed home at 2980 Linden Street in Berkeley has been taken off the market and word on the street is that it had as many as eight offers — and not one of them is from me. It listed for $1,095,000.
At least one visitor to 2830 Garber Street – listed at $1,150,000 and also in [...]
Green Day Singer Lists Upper Rockridge Home
The homes of rock stars are never quite what you imagine, are they?
Just as the band’s “American Idiot” theater production is beginning to draw sell-out crowds at Berkeley Rep and their latest album is garnering plaudits, Green Day’s lead vocalist Billie Jo Armstrong is listing his Upper Rockridge home for a cool $4.85 million…
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