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[senoritafish]

http://www.calcoasthomes.com/williams.html
(About halfway down the page - look for 1811 Pine St.)

Good grief. $2.2 million. This house is on the other side of my block. I just walked past it earlier this evening. It was a shock to us when the house across the street, a plain 60's era 3 bedroom, sold for over a million in less than eight hours last year. This is crazy.


(last year's house)


My parents bought where we live now in 1968 for $30,000.

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[miss-geek.livejournal.com]

when property on my side of beach blvd starts selling for that, is when my mother and i pack up for our new house in hawaii.

one of my roomates grandmother's house just sold for almost 2mil and i'm pretty sure that her house was in your neighborhood...

the house i live in was the first one in this little part of hb. built in the 50's for under 40,000.

hb property is crazy.

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

House prices are insane. A house round here just sold for$NZ1.3m!! Unbelieveable for this area. I can't understand it. It's just a freakin' house, for goodness sake!

[aliki.livejournal.com]

You live in a house that is worth $2.2 million!?!? Drools.

My M-I-L bought their house in 1974 for $17,000-ish-- and it's worth $500,000 today.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Oh no, that house is on a much bigger lot and it's huge - two stories. Lots of custom stuff too. Plus it's fairly new, it was built in 2000.

Ours was built in the late 50's, one less bedroom, and only one story. Still, I posted a pic above the house that sold for a million. It went on the market for $850,000 and the neighbors all said, "he'll never get that, it's too high." Someone offered $150 grand over what he was asking within 24 hrs. It's quite a bit plainer (at least on the outside) than our house.

The trend in this area is to buy a house like the above, tear the whole thing down and build a huge one that takes up the entire lot -no yard or anything, maybe a couple of small patios or a deck on an upper story. They're usually ugly, and it's really sad to see some historical homes downtown - Mission- and Craftsman-style home get torn down to put in these monstrosities.