How about this for some real-estate deals? Homes for $50? They have been reduced a whopping 50% (pre-recession price was $100). And, OK, they are on the small side. As in less than one square foot. But they will suit a small family of four or five I would think. As long as they are [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
Tuesday Snippets
Most outrageously priced home in the East Bay? Perhaps it’s 3045 Marina Drive in Alameda (above) recently listed at $1,122 per square foot ($1,795,000 in total). Read one stunned reaction here.
Who’s the dirtiest of them all? See the addresses of the “12 chronic sites” Berkeley’s Problem Properties team would like to see cleaned up.
It’s official: [...]
A New Offering for the Homing Crowd
Home Girl has taken a second home.
Not a place for the weekend — although wouldn’t that be nice — but rather another spot to spout off about real estate.
As part of an overhaul of its online real-estate coverage, the San Francisco Chronicle has launched a new blog, On The Block, for which yours truly is [...]
Crocker Highlands: A Choice of Two New Listings
In any town or city there are some streets that are known to be particularly desirable. Trestle Glen Road in Oakland’s Crocker Highlands neighborhood is one of them. Long — it runs from Lakeshore Avenue to the east to Park Boulevard to the west — and tree-lined, its homes are invariably well-kept and the overall [...]
Berkeley’s “Dirty Little Secret” Back in the News
Coverage of the controversial Pacific Steel Casting plant in West Berkeley — and the extent to which it might be producing harmful pollution for its neighbors — has been hotting up.
While one judge has overturned a previous Berkeley Small Claims Court ruling in favor of several Pacific Steel Casting neighbors, in a separate action a [...]
Newly Built and $700K Less Than It Used to Be
My grandmother used to say, ‘if you can’t think of anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. If I followed this wise counsel in reviewing 1055 Amito Drive, a 4/3.5 new build in Oakland’s Claremont Hills, this would be a very short post indeed.
This steel-framed, terracotta-hued home has been on the market for [...]
On the Ground: Berkeley
Barely any new listings in Berkeley this week. Not surprising really: it’s the deep mid-winter — would you show your house on a cold, sunless day in the pouring rain?
But some movement nonetheless. Price reductions. Homes going off the MLS, and at least one making a surprisingly timed reappearance.
First the price chops: 1005 Oxford Street, [...]
Friday Snippets
Brand new on the market: 1115 Arch Street in North Berkeley (above). Looks pretty nice — and get the views — but factor a new foundation into the $650,000 price tag.
A (poorly designed) list of Top 25 design and architecture blogs. [Swissmiss]
Do you know when the next Bay Area Spare the Air Day is? You [...]
Superlatives Aren’t Lacking for Rockridge Home
I’ve never met real-estate agent Ron Kriss, but I admire his enthusiasm. The ads he runs for his listings, in the Chronicle OpenHome Guide for instance, are nothing if not effusive. They tend to be lengthy too, packed with mouth-watering details of the “charming” homes he represents — which seem to be mainly in Oakland’s [...]
Link Love: Best From the Wires
Turn your swimming pool into a granny flat [BldgBlog]
Berkeley home prices up 7% on last month [Yahoo.com]
New listing: 526 Merritt Ave, a 5/2 Tudor at $659,000. [Redfin]
George W. snags a 123% loan-to-value mortgage [Portfolio]
Oakland neighborhood councils unite [Today in Montclair]