This Berkeley property is sure to cause a buzz when it opens its doors to potential buyers soon — for architecture buffs, and particularly for those of us who have a weakness for mid-century Californian style.
Designed by architect Vernon DeMars as his home in 1941, the three-bedroom Asian-inspired house at 240 The Uplands is listing [...]
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Berkeley: Vernon DeMars beauty in creekside setting
High up in Berkeley’s Claremont neighborhood
This is one of the nicest listed houses I have seen in a while in Berkeley. Of course, you would expect it to be pretty fine with a $1.695 million price tag.
Nevertheless, high prices don’t always equate to appealing homes, and there’s an awful lot to like with this five-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom home at 90 The Uplands. [...]
Newly listed in Berkeley and raising questions
This is one I need by expert readers’ help with. Listed yesterday for near-on $2m, this 4,000 sq ft home at 83 Oak Ridge Road in the Claremont must have a story, but I don’t know what it is.
The architecture looks interesting, at least from the photos. The price looks “interesting” too — although it [...]
Claremont Bed & Breakfast home lists for sale
Mary Leggett’s famed Bed & Breakfast at 262 Hillcrest Road is for sale.
M’s B&B is something of a Berkeley institution: Leggett has been welcoming guests to her fantasy Tudor-castle style home for a decade. Leggett, 71, only decided to close it down and sell it last week. She says she has loved running the guesthouse but she [...]
Claremont hills home closes escrow two years on
It took over two years, but the terracotta-hued home at 1055 Amito Drive up in the Claremont hills has finally closed escrow.
The 4/3.5 newish home, that went on the market in February 2008 for $2,150,000, eventually sold on an asking price of $980,000 (no word on what it actually changed hands for). That’s $236 per [...]
A Mid-Century Modern Redone in Berkeley Hills
Fresh on the market, and tucked up in the Berkeley/Claremont hills, is a 1950s home that has been given a modern makeover without taking away from the original aesthetic.
2 Gravatt Drive is set back on a secluded lot and it entrance is reached via a lovely front yard, landscaped with a contemporary pond and pretty paving.
Inside, I [...]
In the Claremont: Scenes from a Not so Distant Past
It’s all a mirage of course, but it feels like the old days when stately properties like the one at 2820 Claremont Avenue pop onto the MLS with a price tag nudging $2m.
The 4/4, 3,000 sq ft Colonial is listed at $1,895,000 and last changed hands nine years ago for just over $1m.
There’s an updated [...]
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 [...]
Claremont Mega Home Now For Rent
When a mega-home sells and then shortly after comes onto the rental market, you can’t help but wonder if someone is playing the market a little bit.
The imposing home at 2970 Avalon Avenue in Berkeley’s Claremont neighborhood (above) listed in April 2009 for $2,950,000. It saw a sharp price reduction in July to $2,200,000 and sold [...]