Vintage Charm with a Vintage Price in San Jose
1603 Shortridge Ave, San Jose, CA
$300,000
Status: Pending Release
Bedroom: 2
Bathroom: 1Year Built: 1920
Lot Size: 3840
Square Footage: 1080
List Date: 11/23/2009
Garage Spaces: 2
MLS#: 80954766COME SEE WHAT A GREAT BUY THIS CHARMING BUNGALOW IS!REGULAR SALE-NOT A S/SALE OR REO!LARGE CORNER LOT IN LITTLE PORTUGAL W/2 CAR GARAGE ATTACHED BY A COVERED PATIO*CHARMING COUNTRY KITCHEN W/FARMHOUSE SINK & STUNNING DECO TILE COUNTERS W/FULL BACKSPLASH*FRIDGE INCL’D*INTERIOR LAUNDRY ROOM W/WINDOW*SPACIOUS LIVING ROOM W/XMAS TREE WINDOW & FIREPLACE W/MANTLE*VIEW A 19 PHOTO SLIDE SHOW ON MY WEBSITE
Thanks to Burbed reader sonarrat for this find.
Frankly, I don’t see why anyone needs to go to school – you can learn a lot just from real estate listings. For example, did you know that there’s a Little Portugal in San Jose? I certainly didn’t. Heck there’s even a North and South!
And also, who knew that you could have a farm house right next to 101? How quaint! How convenient!
Let’s go look at some of the photos:
Vintage indeed! Look the appliances! Look at the car! Too bad the car doesn’t come with the house, that’d be a real bonus!
But more importantly, this house is now pending, which goes to show just how HOT HOT HOT the market is. Don’t you wish you had purchased this house?
December 30th, 2009 at 8:22 am
You left out the hideous pink kitchen cabinets. Burbed, don’t you like pink anymore?
December 30th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Yep, Little Portugal is real. There is a Portugese-denominated Catholic church, the Five Wounds, and they have a parade every year at the end of June on Alum Rock Ave.
December 30th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Wow, prices look like they’re getting closer to reality…
Five Wounds Church across highway 101 from this house has been the historic center of the Portuguese community in San Jose. The neighborhood used to be filled with immigrants from the Azore Islands, who all mostly immigrated at the turn of the 20th century or in the 1960′s, and worked in the dairies and orchards of San Jose before we turned ‘em all into housing tracts. I don’t know how much it’s still Portuguese, but there’s a couple Portuguese restaurants and a gift store in the area. Santa Clara, Hayward, and Mountain View all had (and sometimes still have) Portuguese communities, but the social societies still have meeting halls in each.
But, yeah, this house is a pretty classic 20′s bungalow in an older neighborhood, and also pretty typical for what first generation immigrants might find as finding their California dream. Their kids might assimilate and move out to the newer suburbs, but the parents would stay in a house like this. And they’d be happy – they’d have a house of their own, a backyard for growing all their favorite vegetables, and a heck of a lot better life than in the Old Country.
But you know the parents would never have paid peak prices, and any new immigrants (at least the ones like my grandparents) are waiting for prices to hit something they believe is sane before they buy…
December 30th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Hey burbed, you’re getting alot of spam in your old posts:
http://www.burbed.com/2006/04/14/265000-for-beachfront-view-in-half-moon-bay/#comments
December 30th, 2009 at 10:35 am
a lot? they’re a couple of years old!
December 30th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Thanks for letting me know about the spam!
December 30th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Your own little piece of “no there, there” on (I read it too fast as) Shortage Avenue.
December 30th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
That’s okay Alex, I first read it as “Short sale Avenue.”
December 30th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
“No there there” is Oakland. We’re the city that you may or may not know the way to.