This is really an excuse for some visual eye candy (otherwise known as real-estate porn). Three homes designed by Joseph Eichler in 1960 are currently for sale in the same San Rafael neighborhood.
And Eichlers photograph so well, dontcha think?
Above is 25 Calafia, an atrium model 4/2 on a cul-de-sac with hill views and “year-round sun” [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
An Eichler Feast for the Eyes
In Marin, Price is ($3m) Up Not Down
This you don’t really expect. Not in this economic climate. Even if the home is in swanky Marin, in Kent Woodland’s “highly coveted” flats
Last time this 7/4.5, resort-style/Spanish-style home went on the market in July 2005, it was priced a nice rounded $5,000,000. Three and a some years later, its price has climbed to an [...]
Quick and Painful: A $500K Price Chop
You’ve got to admire the chutzpa. Not for this seller the slow, agonizing descent down the price ladder. It’s a swift, and presumably brutal, half a million dollar price reduction in one fell swoop.
First listed in November 2007, one year later 6840 Charing Cross Road had not sold and was sporting a $1,495,000 price tag. [...]
On The Ground: Oakland & Piedmont
Did Piedmont get the memo? Two $3.5m homes recently hit the market, at 57 Lincoln Avenue and 21 Crest Road (above). Maybe Piedmont is recession-proof and they’ll fly off the shelves. Or maybe they’ll both find buyers eventually like 44 Sierra Avenue which is pending at last known asking of $3.2m.
Closed before it opened: the [...]
Should Realtors Be Double Agents?
Do you think it’s right that a broker can represent the buyer and seller of the same property? Or, put another, better way, can they best serve both their clients who are on different sides of a financial transaction?
This is a question on which I have strong views. Read my thoughts on my other real-estate [...]
Affordable Toe In to Good Neighborhood
Prices have been cut on the two remaining condos at 4141 Piedmont Avenue, a remodeled 1970s building in the heart of this happy Oakland ‘hood, one of my local favorites.
$299,000 will get you a 1/1, 628 sq ft condo with a modern look (albeit not high end — think Ikea rather than Bulthaup), bamboo floors, [...]
Tuesday Snippets
About to hit the market: a Julia Morgan-designed home at 834 Santa Barbara Road in north Berkeley. Designed for two women doctors in 1917, it’s a brown shingle top-down design with Bay views, priced $1,100,000.
Well, my dream home didn’t stick around for long this time. After reappearing on the MLS at $1,295,000 on February 11 [...]
New Mega Home in Berkeley-Oakland Hills
I invite you to check out my post on this newly listed contempoary super home — designed by Berkeley architect Charles Debbas and recently featured in San Francisco Magazine — on my other homes blog.
Up Where the Wild Things Are
Climb up to a certain part of the north Berkeley hills and it gets a little wild. There’s a sense of nature encroaching, with Tilden Park in your rear-view mirror, and the twisting, pot-holed streets seeming to indicate that civilization is fighting a losing battle. (An impression admittedly enhanced by a torrential downpour on the [...]
Whopping Price Plummet in North Berkeley
Anyone got the low-down on the bank-owned 105 Kensington Road in the north Berkeley hills?
It’s been listed for five days and is priced at $589,900, but it has an interesting price history — to say the least.
Records show it sold in 2003 for $1,395,000 and then in 2007 for a rather astonishing $2,256,977. This time [...]