$1.25 million house in Campbell
On Monday, we showed you what a $1.295 million dollar house looks like in Greenwich, CT where the income regularly tops $500k. Let’s look a house in that price range here in the Bay Area:
MLS-2.com: Property Details
1149 AUDREY, CAMPBELL,CA,95008 – $1,250,000
4 Beds 1221 Sq.Ft. Aprx. 2 Car Garage MLS#: 753932
3.0 Baths 10,890 Lot Size 59 Yrs Old Aprx. List Date: 2007-09-25What’s new on MLS-2: Search by % Price Drop // Search by “MOTIVATED SELLERS”
Description – 1149 AUDREY, CAMPBELL,CA,95008
Fixer upper! Large lot over 10,000 sq ft, huge backyard,opportunity to build custom home or remodel. Located on quiet street, excellent Campbell location
Now, Campbell is clearly better than Greenwich – how do we know that? For one thing, it’s got the Egyptian themed Fry’s. TAKE THAT GREENWICH! Also, Campbell has… uh… prunes. What does Greenwich have? Probably nothing! Yeah so Donald Trump lives there… but just think of all the amazingly famous people who live in Campbell. Can’t think of any? Well that’s because they prefer to be private.
It’s on the first day and we’ve already given Greenwich a good stomping… let’s see what tomorrow brings!
January 29th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Geesh…yet another place that advertises the house that MIGHT be there.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Now that is a fine example of Bay Area architecture – you can’t tell anything but a car lives there. The Snout House writ large.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:01 am
There’s something really, really strange about this place. The price seems way too high, and the square footage seems really small for a 4/3; it makes sense for a 3/2 standard rancher, but not for the extra bedroom.
One possibility would have been that the house is in the Los Gatos school districts, but one of the real estate sites says this has Campbell schools. The other would have been granite countertops like that cool place in Oakland, but there’s no mention of granite. There’s not even any pictures of the inside of the house (which may be connected with how it’s being sold as a potential tear-down.)
There’s not even any prunes, I’ll bet.
Zillow guesses at $780K, and thinks it’s a 2 bedroom, 2 bath. Property shark also thinks it’s a 2/2. Curiouser and curiouser. (The cynic in me wonders whether the extra two bedrooms and one bath were added with permits.) The neighborhood is mixed; there’s a bunch of older, tiny houses and a bunch of larger new houses. I’d like to suspect that the owner assumed that if the big, pink, stucco thing next door sold for $1.5M — the 2700 square foot, brand new, 4 bedroom 3 bath — then her house should as well. But I’d like to hope the real estate agent is somewhat realistic, and is going to try to get the price set to something he might be able to sell.
Personally, I’d buy the $200K house in Oakland with the granite counters, and move it here. With granite counters, you could easily get $2M for the place!
January 29th, 2008 at 10:10 am
And — listing date Sept. 25, 2007? After four months, they still haven’t figured out the price is insane?!
January 29th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I know a guy who kept his house sitting on market for more than 6 months in a ridiculous price. He was moving to Washington state, close to his family. He kept saying “I think it will be sold soon. There are buyers out there. You just need one buyer. Juuuuuuuust one”. I was interpreting as “you just need one dumb person who will be willing to buy”. Unfortunately he did not get “just one buyer” in more than six months and sold his house for lot less than the listed price.
Basically people who can afford to keep their house for 6-7 months, they do – hoping someday “just one buyer” will park his car in their driveways.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Maybe it’s that this place has a fully operational meth lab underneath it, with a really good ventilation/fume capture system so you won’t get caught.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
$1.25M? This house is priced a lot less than that moss-covered dump in Greenwich. If we keep these comparisons up, maybe folks in Greenwich will see just how overpriced their houses really are! Keep it up, Burbed!
By the way, this house shows an excellent use of pastel colors to boost curb appeal… What kind of car would you park in the garage? Peach-colored Rolls?