It’s time for my regular feature that delights real estate agents everywhere! Today’s home is in Vallejo, which has some of the highest rates of foreclosure in the nation. It’s a cute golden, two-bedroom, one-bath bungalow offered for $171,100 by Re/Max Gold. It’s on a 3,267-square-foot lot with a guesthouse in the back. (The [...]
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Today’s Broken Dream House comes from San Ramon — where suburbia meets the freeway interchange. It’s a “doll house” at 1,452 square feet, with three bedrooms and two baths. The asking price, after 194 days on the market is $719,000. The history on this house, built in 1978, starts with its first resale in 1992 [...]
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What’s not to love about Crockett? There’s the view, the C&H sugar plant, the vertigo-inducing streets . . . And this house. This three-bedroom, two-bath, 1,564-square-foot house has a view, updated kitchen, two wood-burning fireplaces, two patios and a wraparound deck where you can see this great view of your neighbor’s backyard and telephone poles. [...]
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You may recall this home I wrote about in August. According to Zillow.com it was sold just before Xmas 2005 for $675,000. Eight months later in August 2006, the home was bought for $839,000. Now in 2007, its current owners, who have owned it for a year are trying to sell, at first for $879,000 [...]
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My story today about the Polk house for sale, highlighted a segment of real estate few people talk about. Yet it’s one many people deal with on a regular basis. Most deaths that occur in the house are natural deaths of people who may have lived there for decades before finally dying there. With more [...]
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If you have every looked over $3 million estates on Redfin, drooled over $200,000 remodels on HGTV or picked up Victorian Homes, you are a consumer of the shelter porn industry. Creating carnal desire for real estate is part of what drove the housing boom in California. A realistic $450,000 two-bedroom bungalow in Concord? Or [...]
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