- The Servais-designed 3+/2.5 home at 1400 West View Drive in the Berkeley-Oakland hills (above) (see Home Girl’s take on it here) has had a $100K price cut to $1,395,000 after 54 days on the market. A tipster notes: “$449 per sq ft seems like a deal for this place seeing that it last sold for $1,350K in Feb of 06. I went to an open house a few weeks back and the Servais design is gorgeous. There’s some incredible woodwork in that place.”
The recently built condo building at 2700 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley (right) is to be sold at auction without ever having had a resident tenant. In a sign of the times, it is being put on the block to pay for the $10.8 million losses incurred by its owners, Carleton Place.- There’s still hope for sellers: 1225 Monterey Avenue (which I covered here), a 2/1 traditional bungalow built in 1921, closed escrow last week at $762,500, comfortably above its $719,500 asking price.
- Berkeley scientists are behind a new driver-less bus that is guided by magnets embedded in the road and which was put the test last week in San Leandro. “Today’s demonstration marks a significant step in taking the technology off of the test track … towards deployment onto real city streets,” said Wei-Bin Zhang, from UC Berkeley. How many of us quaking Berkeley citizens will be willing to step on board is another question. Zhang did add: “Ultimately, it’s up to the community to decide which transit option is best for its members.” I think I’ll pass, thank you.
[Photo credit/San Pablo: Richard Brennerman.]