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 [...]
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New Listing in Those Hybrid Hills
Price of Berkeley Mega Home Takes Another Tumble
It’s not all popping champagne corks and fairytales in the East Bay’s high-end housing market.
One mega-home for sale in the Berkeley-Oakland hills, which Home Girl has been following since its appearance on the market in December 2008, has resolutely failed to find a buyer and has had what we calculate is its fourth price reduction [...]
Rude Reality Check in North Berkeley
The owner (and builder) of this 4/2.5 home at 65 Southampton Avenue in Berkeley must be losing sleep over the price reductions he has had to endure since he listed the newly built home in January.
Its starting price was a more than optimistic $1,980,000. A succession of chops later, and a change of agent, sees [...]
Brand New in North Berkeley
It’s not often you see a newly built home in Berkeley — and, to be honest, we haven’t seen this one yet either, but it looks interesting.
Designed by Peter David Gilbert and recently completed, 482 Michigan Avenue is a 5/4, 3,568 sq ft with an in-law apartment and workshop. It boasts “wonderful Golden Gate views [...]
Berkeley Bunker Continues Descent
The somewhat brutalist contemporary dwelling at 7080 Kenilworth Road in the Berkeley/Oakland hills continues to chip away at its stratospheric price.
We’ve been following this one — here, here and here.
The 4+/5, 5,000 sq ft home was listed in December 2008 for $4,999,000 (sort of). It’s now lopped nearly half a million greenbacks off its $3,990,000 [...]
In Oakland: The Diablo Dive
As predicted, the home on the top of the world at 117 Diablo Drive has slashed its price after 63 days on the market.
The 5,000 sq ft contemporary Oakland hills home is now listed at $1,885,000, having started at $2,185,000.
Read my review of it here.
Dwell Worthy Oakland Listing
I didn’t manage to see, it but a friend tells me 492 58th Street is superb. What you have is a Victorian house and separate barn building (above), both converted with such modernist flair that they merit a feature in this month’s Dwell.
It’s always impressive when a homeowner secures a glossy magazine spread just before [...]
Prices Goin’ Down on Top-Dollar Homes
Some interesting price reductions have crossed Home’s Girl’s radar.
Unsurprisingly, 2970 Avalon Avenue in Berkeley’s Claremont Court neighborhood has had a big chop — from $2,950,000 to $2,595,000 after 36 days on the market. As predicted, it wasn’t going to be easy justifying that asking price in this market. Added to that the sting that the [...]
High, Mighty, Big, Bold: That Was Then
I went to see this house at 117 Diablo Road a few weeks ago and then promptly forgot about it — which probably tells you something about the impression it made on me.
It’s a big house — nearly 5,000 sq ft, five bathrooms — on a ludicrously steep lot, way way up the in the [...]
In Oakland: A Home Made of Straw
Look at how thick the walls are in the photo above — so deep and enveloping and reassuringly solid.
The reason they look that way is that this home at 99 Roble Road, which has just come on the market priced $1,125,000, is Oakland’s only house constructed with straw bales.
This is a great looking home — [...]