Here’s my pick of three Berkeley homes (pictured in listed order) that have just come up for sale, and that may be worth adding to your list this weekend.
661 Santa Rosa Avenue: Price: $949,000. If the Mediterranean style is your thing, this 3-bedroom, 1,733 sq ft home in the Thousand Oaks neighborhood may float your boat. Lots of [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
Pick of the Open Houses: Berkeley
Historical Property up for Grabs in Berkeley
Anyone wanting to get their hands on an architecturally distinctive property in Berkeley — and with $3,680,000 to spare — is in luck with the recent arrival on the market of this multi-unit complex on Codornices Road.
Designed by Henry Gutterson in 1924, the nine units are across the way from Bernard Maybeck’s Rose Walk. Four of [...]
Renters: Time to Bite the Bullet and Buy
According to new research, published in Forbes, renters in the metropolitan area of San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont are in a sweet spot if they are contemplating taking the plunge and becoming homeowners.
Read more about it on my Block post today.
Let’s Talk “Deep Walkability”
Home Girl is a huge fan of walkability — and the need to reduce our dependence on cars. But Walk Scores can be misleading.
Read about “deep walkability” — of which the new listing at 5370 Miles Avenue in Oakland (above) has plenty — on my Block post today.
At Home with the Mill Valley Blues
Things ain’t what they used to be in Mill Valley. This three-bedroom secluded home at 10 Lockwood Lane, for example, whose pool and waterfall was featured in Sunset Magazine, has been on the market for 168 days and its price has twice been chopped. Originally $1,375,000, it is now down to $1,250,000.
Read more about languishing Mill [...]
Chop on Oakland Listing is Price of Average Home
This David Stark Wilson designed home at 5 Woodside Way in the Oakland hills has just had a second price chop bringing its total reduction to $650,000, a sum which would buy you a perfectly decent house in some other Oakland neighborhoods.
The four-bedroom home, built in 1994, has the requisite gourmet kitchen (above), panoramic bridge views, [...]
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.
“Silly” Kensington Listing Finds Buyer
Back in November, reader Debtpocalypse alerted us to a listing at 252 Stanford Avenue in Kensington (above). He wrote: “$1.7 million for a sub-7,000 sqft lot in Kensington? Good luck with that.. This is the silliest listing in quite some time.”
Well, the home in question — a Michael Thomas-designed mid-century modern house on three levels, [...]
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 [...]