It isn’t even in escrow, but real-estate blogs are already aflutter about the fact that 5950 Margarido Drive, more commonly known as the Margarido House, is now under contract.
The upper Rockridge home, you will remember, is a 4,600 sq ft, five-bedroom, five-bathroom home built by design-builder Mike McDonald. It was the first custom home in northern California [...]
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Margarido House Goes into Contract
Whopping Price Cut for Green Super Home in Oakland
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. [...]
Green Day Home Sells Snappily
Tipster Joe confirms what we reported six days ago, that Green Day vocalist Billy Joe Armstrong has found a buyer for his $4.85 million “tasteful” home in upper Rockridge (above).
“I drove by and there is a sale pending sign,” Joe writes. “Considering this quick sale and the quick sale of the $6.5m house in Piedmont [...]
Surely a Record? Oakland Home Lists for $1,182/sq ft
Hot on the market is 5950 Margarido Drive in upper Rockridge, a house so special it warrants its own name. The Margarido House has listed for $5.5 million, making it by far the most expensive home in the East Bay.
It would be difficult to live in the Bay Area and not have heard about this [...]
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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Straw Bale Home Hits the Spot
I have now had the chance to see the $1,125,000 straw-bale home at 99 Roble Road in Oakland and hear a little from its architect, Dan Smith, about its making.
And I must say I really liked what I saw.
Set back from the street and tucked into its own leafy enclave, this supremely comfortable-looking home has [...]
Look At Me Home in Upper Rockridge
I didn’t expect to like 5272 Golden Gate Avenue, a contemporary home designed and built in 1994 by architect Phillip Perkins for himself.
The exterior facade is imposing and not a little forbidding — although it has to be said this neighborhood, which is quaintly known as Upper Rockridge, is chock full of homes that are [...]
Thirteen Days, Two Price Chops
6170 Contra Costa Road in Oakland has had second a price chop in just 13 short days — this time from $2,125,000 to $1,999,500.
This 5/4 “magnificent Mediterranean” built in 1996 started life on March 11 at $2,200,000. It last sold in August 2007 for a straight $2m.
Bargain Oakland Home Finds its Price
This just in: 5230 Cochrane Avenue in upper Rockridge — a home I identified as being perhaps the best deal in Oakland after its $1,725,000 price tag was slashed to $1,349,000 — has by all accounts been sold for… wait for it… $1,130,000. (Hat-tip reader Rich for the alert).
The 4/3.5 contemporary hit the MLS in [...]
Flurry of Sales Bucks Trend
You wouldn’t know the housing market was in distress if you went by the number of homes I have recently reviewed that have flown off the market in the few weeks.
One of the two green condo homes (pictured above) on 7th Street in West Berkeley, designed by Maurice Levitch, that I covered here.
As predicted, the [...]