Just listed: this four-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom home at 161 Avenida Drive up in the north Berkeley hills. Designed by Paul Wang in 2003, it is described as “serene”, “secluded” and “spectacular” all at the same time.
Perhaps most interesting, though, is the price: $1,685,000, which is a not insignificant $240,000 (12.5%) down on the $1,925,000 it changed [...]
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Berkeley Contemporary Three Years On
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 [...]
New Year, New (Raised) Price for Old Berkeley Listing
What would you do if your home had steadfastly refused to sell after nearly two years on the market and the housing crash was still a vivid memory in everyone’s mind?
Probably not what the owners of 1055 Amito Drive in Berkeley did a couple of days ago when they increased the price of their listed [...]
A Small Come Down for Hill-Top Home
Another home on Alvarado Road in the Claremont hills sold recently — and this time its closing price tells you something about the effect the market has had on values.
The imposing Colonial style house at 614 Alvarado last sold in April 2007 for $1,630,000 (on an asking of $1,550,000). In late October this year, it [...]
Happy Christmas for High-End Berkeley Sellers
Proving that there are always homes which will defy market rules if the right stars align for seller and buyer, the “majestic Monterey Colonial” home at 245 Alvarado Road in Berkeley (above) sold comfortably over its asking price.
The 5/5 house, with its “graceful balconies, terraces, landscaped gardens and grand rooms for entertaining”, went on the [...]
Berkeley Hills Home Goes on the Block
The contemporary house at 6946 Bristol Drive in the Berkeley hills, whose latest listing price was $1,166,500, is going up for auction on December 19.
Read details here.
Multiple Bids: Remember Those? They’re Back
Expressions barely uttered in the past year or so are making a comeback. Remember “multiple bids”? In conversations with real-estate brokers this past week, these two words have actually been used.
One agent, who works primarily in north Berkeley, reported on a $625,000 Albany home attracting several offers and closing 124% over of its asking price. [...]
Quality over Quantity in Berkeley
An East Bay real estate agent went against her instincts yesterday and tweeted about a paucity of listings in Berkeley. She wrote: “Breaking my rule about Real Estate tweets….If you have a house to sell THE TIME IS NOW. We simply have NO inventory in Berkeley, Calif.”
Carolyn Jones may be right. There’s not much out [...]