Pristine house in Belmont… sort of.
17 OXFORD Ct, Belmont, CA 94002 | MLS# 80923214
17 OXFORD Ct Belmont, CA 94002
Price: $906,000
Beds: 5
Baths: 3
Sq. Ft.: 2,890
$/Sq. Ft.: $313
Lot Size: 8,906 Sq. Ft.
Property Type: Detached Single Family
Style: Contemporary
Stories: 2
Year Built: 2000
Community: Homeview/Sterling Downs
County: San Mateo
MLS#: 80923214
Source: MLSListings
Status: Active
On Redfin: 9 days
Bank Owned Gorgeous remodeled home in pristine Belmont loc. Home features 5 bdrms, 3 bths, Cathedral Ceilings, in-unit laundry rm w/ washer/dryer, updated Kitchen w/ granite counters, maple cabinets & hw flrs in kitchen/family rm. Large master bdrm & updated master bthrm w/ 2 walk-in closets, double pane windows & large backyard, Over 2800 sq. ft. living space-Close to 101, and Top Rated schools/parks
Thanks to Burbed reader LG for this find.
LG thought the phrase “pristine Belmont loc” to be very poignant.
Let’s take a look shall we:
Sure, that’ll be pristine… for about a day or two. But don’t worry, there’s a large backyard for you to set up that traffic monitoring system that you’ve always wanted. What? Didn’t you always want to be a reporter when you grew up?
Thanks LG!
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 am
Funny you should bring up this listing, just last weekend I went inside 819 35th Ave in the Jingletown neighborhood of Oakland, a house which directly faces 880. There’s no sound wall, either. It’s an old Victorian that has been converted into illegal flats – there’s only one bedroom on the county record, but the house has two on the main level, and three down in what was previously a large cellar. There’s a few things missing, but mostly just dirty from disuse.
I think it’s great that they tried to use the space. On paper, it’s a steal at just under $100K. Unfortunately, they did significant damage to the structure when they gutted the cellar, and rather than try to rectify it, they put up trim to match the slope of the walls downstairs. As if it was intentional! And good god, it was the worst road noise I’ve ever encountered, even worse than that shack in Redwood City at Woodside & Middlefield. I worked for a year facing 101 in an office building with no soundwall, and it was not as bad as this. It’s you – one lane of roadway – raised freeway at the level of the upstairs of the house. Unbearable.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 am
1. It is already pending with release.
2. Pending home sales rise 6.7 percent in April.
3. ???
4. Profit!
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:37 am
That’s right, herve – sales are up 3.2% YOY too. That means the owners in the higher price ranges can breathe a huge sigh of relief that their homes won’t de-value any further. Not that they’d sell anyway, unless there was a job transfer. (There are no other possible reasons to sell because nothing bad ever happens to them!) It’s all rainbows and unicorns from here on out.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 am
You can not argue with “Close to 101″ statement in this listing, it is as close as possible.
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:13 am
Nice!
Look on the bright side: if you have an annoying wife, the highway noise will drown out the nagging.
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:25 am
Wow, sonarrat, that’s quite a description. Do you have a link to this place? Piccies?
mv_dude, the only thing better would be a house with a driveway right on an entrance ramp! Looking at that backyard space I understand why they don’t have any patio furniture outside. Anything left there will be covered in particulates inside of ten minutes.
Check out the house two doors down with the pool! Wouldn’t you love to be a guest at a party there?
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 am
That thing is UGLY.
What’s with the division between the two garages? Doesn’t it make sense to, if you have a 2-car garage, to *not* have a divider inbetween? And what’s with that bedroom? over the one garage? Is the object to show the most roofs possible to the front? Look at me! I live in a SuperStackerWhopper of a house! With pickles!
And “in-unit” laundry, is this actually a condo?
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Madhaus, this is the link. If you look at the house in Google Maps street view it shows you how the house looks from 880 – you could drape a banner across the upper level and it would be more visible than any billboard.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Just another example of the uglification and lowered standards of architecture. I am perplexed as to why anyone with such a high income would purchase such pure rubbish. I wonder how low we can go in terms of ugly architecture. It’s as if the architect or whoever designed this piece of crap tried to do all they could to make this house ugly. Also, if I’m paying neat 1 mil for a house, it better have window shutters that actually open and close! The interior just looks plain cheap and tacky with the laminate wood flooring, cheap oak cabinetry, ugly black appliances, black counters, and lack of detailing. This is a soulless, characterless house made of “ticky tacky”.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
I guess one could consider the noise of the traffic as soothing ambient background noise.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Who needs to build beautiful homes when they will appreciate over 10% YoY and double every ten years?
These are investment vehicles, not dwellings to live and have pride in.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:52 pm
sonarrat – LOL! Did you notice that the Google street view for the place was taken from up on the freeway?! That’s the street view provided from your Redfin link at least.
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:17 pm
And that price history that Oakland home is more interesting. It went through both 1989-1991 and 2003-2006 real estate run-ups and collapses.
1989 sold price: $690K (the buyer bought in peak).
1992 sold price: $125K (after real estate collapsed)
2005 sold price: $430K (another buyers bought in peak)
Now listed: $98K
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Also, note that it is “remodeled,” even though the house is only 9 years old. I don’t know which builder it was, and I wouldn’t want to give them free advertising anyway, but a builder is running a radio ad. They are hawking their properties’ “remodeled designer kitchens.” THE HOMES ARE BRAND NEW! They have barely been modeled the first time, let alone REMODELED!
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Personally, I think it’s the mismatch of the second floor windows that makes this so egregious.
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
It’s not just the windows that are the problem, burbed. UnrealAlex hit the nail on the head with the surmise that the builder wanted you to see as many roofs (rooves?) as possible. A book I’ve mentioned on this site, Suburban Nation, also discussed this tendency for McMansions (and this is more of a McSFH) to have as many roof angles as the builder could place, making one house look like an entire European village.
And nothing says soulless like a front yard that’s all driveway.
Thanks very much for the link to the Oakland house on 35th, sonarrat. I think that purple and yellow paint job alone must be worth $98K, because clearly the house itself is priceless.
Pralay:
May 26, 2009 Price Changed $98,900 — EBRD #40406030
Apr 21, 2009 Listed $107,000 – EBRD #40406030
Aug 25, 2008 Sold $369,694 -4.8%/yr Public Records
Jul 29, 2005 Sold $430,000 21.1%/yr Public Records
Oct 20, 1993 Sold $45,000 -48.3%/yr Public Records
Apr 02, 1992 Sold $125,000 -51.5%/yr Public Records
Nov 22, 1989 Sold $690,909 – Public Records
See! Even in Oakland, Bay Area prices double every ten years! Of course, Bay Area prices also drop by 80% every four years.
Loll.
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I don’t know why my remarks to Pralay were eaten (above) but what I wanted to say was he missed the most important piece of useless anecdotal data.
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:44 pm
C’mon….the noise isn’t that bad. I hear it’s absolutely charming between 2:30 and 4:00 AM.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
BobbyS: I guess one could consider the noise of the traffic as soothing ambient background noise.
RinkRat: C’mon….the noise isn’t that bad. I hear it’s absolutely charming between 2:30 and 4:00 AM.
To quote Dave Barry, I swear I am not making this up.
After I moved to my current house, I started checking out open houses in this area for fun. One of them was pretty much up against the 85 soundwall, with a constant sound of traffic. I should have taken a sound-level/decibel meter with me, because that place would drive any musician insane, and this was 3 in the afternoon on a summer weekend. I swear the Realtard put words to this effect on the flyer:
Just close your eyes and imagine the sound of the ocean’s waves rolling onto the beach.
And you don’t even have to close your eyes to imagine that a POS duplex with a GRM above 400 can sell for $1.75M if the flyer has a pretty picture of what you could build there instead (Sorry! Demolition, construction, fixtures, materials, labor, insurance, lawsuits and taxes not included).
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I used to hold Realtors in higher regard than car salesmen, but I’ve dropped my regard for them to the same level of car salesmen. They are still above 24 hour fitness salesmen though.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I used to hold Realtors in higher regard than car salesmen
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Higher regard due to what? Because their commissions are bigger?