Discount, empty lot available in Mountain View
$1,080,000
Beds: 4 Baths: 3 Sq. Ft.: 842 $/Sq. Ft.: $1,283 Lot Size: 6,200 Sq. Ft. Property Type: Detached Single Family Stories: 2 Year Built: 1950 Community: North Shoreline County: Santa Clara MLS#: 81001504 Source: MLSListings Status: Active On Redfin: 8 days Lot clear and ready to build! List price reflects home being built by owner/builder as approved by the city. Permits in place. Plans for a gorgeous meditteranean-style home with great room concept, large gourmet kitchen with island, ground floor bdrm & bath, spacious master suite w/ balcony, 2 car garage & much more!
Why yes! That’s exactly what I would expect for $1M.
Here’s what Burbed reader M.D. had to say:
this one is so hot they can’t even show a pic. actually it’s not yet built, so you’re buying a dream in mt view. if the builder thinks that’s a legit price, maybe someone should take away his wood glue – no sniffing allowed on the job.
btw – i live in that zip code and i don’t think anything has sold for over $900k in the past 1 1/2 yrs – probably nothing over 850k.
Can’t you just imagine the beauty that you can build here? 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms… with great room concept! Sure it may look like a field of weeds now, but with just another $500,000 you can your Mountain View masterpiece.
More importantly, your house will truly stand out from your neighbors. You know what they say – you want to have the best house in the worst street. Or something like that.
If this isn’t a great deal for those with great imaginations, I don’t know what is!
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:56 am
The house across the street is selling for $565K and has been on the market for 6 months:
Beds: 3
Baths: 2
Sq. Ft.: 1,152
$/Sq. Ft.: $490
Lot Size: 5,400 Sq. Ft.
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:25 am
A “stroll around the block” with Google street view showcases just what a million-dollar neighborhood this is, featuring among other highlights a beige mid-70′s Oldsmobile abandoned in the dirt next to the driveway one street over. (At one of the houses that would be your backyard neighbor, actually.)
At least their aren’t any sofas on the street, a common feature of East San Jose ‘hoods…
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:36 am
Looks like contributor M.D. missed the point about the price including the house to be built. The square footage must be wrong though – they aren’t going to cram 4BR/3BA in 842 square feet… ah, Redfin now say 2305sf for a list price of $469/sf.
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:39 am
If I were rich, I would buy that lot, put an old trailer on it and move some good ol’ inbred hicks from the central valley in there. That would be hilarious.
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:43 am
Hilarious? Looks like you’d fit right in.
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:21 am
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/business/03walk.html?pagewanted=1&ref=us
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:23 am
if you look at google maps instead of just the street view, you’ll notice that there’s a house there. This implies someone bought it, knocked it down to put up a mcmansion, then ate it. Now they have to put up a WTF price just to cover everything.
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:33 pm
ES I like your style.
I lived in MV for a bit. Just 2 blocks away from Castro. It’s ghetto. It may be high priced, and there may be some fairly wealthy folks who you’ll see fleetingly as their car zips in and out of their trapdooor garage, showing themselves as little as possible, but it’s ghetto.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:14 pm
The listing has a beautiful drawing now.
The house across the street is pending with release.
May 15th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
And the house across the street is back on the market. It was listed again on April 12 and after a month on the market the seller is now offering a 5% discount: $571,710 instead of $601,800.
June 10th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
House across the street now reduced to $543,125.