Home Girl is taking a vacation to the old country and will no doubt be seeing many homes like those above for the next three weeks. Postings will be infrequent, if at all.
We hope you enjoy the rest of your summer and look forward to being back on the East Bay home front in the [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
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Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone’s Berkeley Home
When Twitter co-founder Biz Stone tweets, a million people listen. So it wasn’t surprising that when he recently posted a message about selling his home, the broker’s website to which he linked was so overwhelmed it froze up…
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Far-Flung Suburbs: the End is Nigh
People who own homes in far-off suburbs will soon realize there’s no longer any market for their houses. Or so says Christopher Steiner in his new book $20 per Gallon (How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline will Change our Lives for the Better).
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Mighty Cute $550K Berkeley Craftsman
Thank you reader Kim Weisberg for bringing to our attention a cute looking Berkeley home which is also in the realm of the attainable with its $550,000 price tag.
The 2/1.5 Craftsman at 2021 Grant Street has lashings of period detailing, including coved ceilings, moldings, pillars, built-in cabinets, wainscoting and a welcoming front porch.
It all looks [...]
At High End It’s All About Lower Prices
Two more homes with hefty price tags have seen cuts.
2914 Piedmont Avenue in The Elmwood (above) bullishly set out asking $1,800,000 in late May. It’s had one chop already and has now endured another. Current price: $1,595,000. Read Home Girl’s June 1 review of the home in which we questioned the feasibility of that original [...]
Painful Price Chop on Mega Home
In a mirror image of yesterday’s post about a rude reality check for a home owner, another over-priced Berkeley home has had a painful price reduction after being placed in the hands of a new real estate agent — the same one in both cases.
Bebe McRae at Grubb Co. has taken on 2970 Avalon Avenue [...]
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 [...]
Twitter Founder Lists Berkeley Home
From InBerkeley:
Twitter founder Biz Stone loves his Berkeley cottage at 1409 Greenwood Terrace (or so he tells us, on Twitter of course), but he’s putting it on the market for $575,000.
Designed by noted California architect William Wurster as his own studio in 1960, the cottage has two bedrooms and two bathrooms and is located just [...]
Claremont Home With Normal Price. Really?
I should have got used to it by now, but it still takes me by surprise to see how prices have fallen in even the most desirable neighborhoods.
Newly listed at 60 The Uplands, in the Claremont area, is this 4/2, 2,570 sq ft home which by all accounts looks pretty nice. It is priced at [...]
Dwell Home Slices Price
Barely have we mentioned a home it seems, than it sees fit to chop its asking price.
The Charlie Lazor-designed Dwell home at 61 Wolfback Ridge Road in Sausalito has sliced a not inconsiderable $455,000 off its $3,650,000 asking price so that it is now $3,195,000.
Personally I am wondering what they would take just for the [...]