Goraeous Custom Built Home with Sodhisticated Stule and Eleaance
Thanks very much to Burbed reader Tuxxi for this find, adjacent to the “Holy crap, this place is full of armored personnel carriers with SWAT teams carrying assault rifles” neighborhood in Sunnyvale (formerly known as Birdland Neighbors). Or is that Occupy Sunnyvale?
952 MARION Way, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
$1,549,000
BEDS: 4
BATHS: 3.5
SQ. FT.: 3,600
$/SQ. FT.: $430
LOT SIZE: 9,424 Sq. Ft.
PROPERTY TYPE: Detached Single Family
STORIES: 2
VIEW: Neighborhood
YEAR BUILT: 2011
COMMUNITY: Sunnyvale
COUNTY: Santa Clara
MLS#: 81139592
SOURCE: MLSListings
STATUS: Active
ON REDFIN: 27 daysGorgeous Custom Built Home * Formal Living & Dining Area, High Ceiling, Gas Fireplace * Gourmet Kitchen w. Cherry Cabinets, Granite Counters, Large Island, Family Room * Office w. French Doors * Master Suite w. Jacuzzi Tub, Double Vanity, Walk In Closet * “Jack & Jill” Bedrooms & Den Upstairs * One Bed/Bath Downstairs * Cherry Hardwood Flrs * Crown Molding * Coffer Ceilings * Milgard Windows * Beautiful Attention to Detail!
There are two reasons Tuxxi sent this in to Burbed. First, the neighborhood. Serf hut next door, check!
Beautiful view across the street, check!
I even attempted a drive-by to find some reported appliances on a front lawn, but didn’t have any luck with that. I did, however, find this “Persian Palace” a block away.
And by Persian Palace, I’m not saying the owners are from Iran; the term has come to mean an overdone (for the neighborhood) new home with unrelated design elements, the more, the “better.” While this place doesn’t have mawbul kawlums, it was the fountain and the lions that made me notice it, and I don’t mean “notice” in a good way. This is Beverly Hills flats wanna-be in a really hinky part of Sunnyvale. Think Rancho Rinconada, but with lousier schools.
In fact, the entire neighborhood is a complete mishmash of construction projects, McMansions, crapboxes, and “pride of ownership” fifties ranchers, so in some bizarre way the above house isn’t as awful as it could be.
But back to the featured house. Tuxxi collected the flyer and it’s the second reason this place is on the front page today.
Take a good look at the tagline for this place:
That attention to detail will is what you’re paying 6% of $1.5 million for. Meanwhile, I’m wondering, a mil and a half for SUNNYVALE? A mil and a half for SUNNYVALE with SANTA CLARA SCHOOLS? A mil and a half for Sunnyvale with Santa Clara schools and NO SIDEWALKS? A mil and a half for Sunnyvale with Santa Clara schools with no sidewalks OR CURBS?
I cannot wait to meet the buyer who thinks this is a DEAL, because I plan on doing a lot of business with whoever that is. I don’t even know what kind of business, I just know it’s going to be very profitable for one of us.
November 2nd, 2011 at 8:27 am
I know that neighborhood – it’s the hood! Parts are pretty sketchy. But you can wander down from your castle to the two dive bars at Wolfe and El Camino and hang out with the serfs.
November 2nd, 2011 at 9:06 am
Neo-eclectic architecture – an excuse to steal whatever architectural elements you damn well please. Where are the cawlums?
That’s a beautiful fence to look at from your upstairs den! Serious question: how many people have upstairs dens?
November 2nd, 2011 at 9:17 am
Hey, madhaus, your Persian Palace is for sale too! Let’s make this a burbed neighborhood and all move in!
http://www.redfin.com/CA/Sunnyvale/943-Marion-Way-94087/home/761137
What a “bargain” for $1.45M, but it is $2/sf more.
November 2nd, 2011 at 9:21 am
I would bet 943 Marion is back on the market because it didn’t appraise.
November 2nd, 2011 at 9:37 am
I spent a good amount of time in search of those damned appliances on the lawn, including checking out a few of the side streets. This area really is the most bizarre mix of utter crap, modest-yet-well-maintained, construction, and Oh-my-god-look-what-they-built-HERE.
There was no sign at the Persian Palace or I would have added it to the Burbed queue, really.
But guess what, nomadic? You blinked! It’s PENDING!
November 2nd, 2011 at 9:50 am
“I cannot wait to meet the buyer who thinks this is a DEAL, because I plan on doing a lot of business with whoever that is. I don’t even know what kind of business, I just know it’s going to be very profitable for one of us.”
Are you going to become a REALTOR?
November 2nd, 2011 at 10:11 am
Pending? D’you suppose the buyers spent too much time looking around Palo Alto and thought $1.45M was reasonable? Must have been a Persian with a suitcase full of cash…
November 2nd, 2011 at 10:11 am
Maybe a bankruptcy attorney?
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:24 am
Ahh Slummyvale. SWAT teams are *not* that rare there, people. Anyone who’s lived there a year or two has found themselves inside a police cordon. It’s kind of fun, like being on the set of COPS.
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:55 am
You must be O.G., Gilroy Alex. I lived in Sunnyvale for nearly four years and never got stuck in a police cordon.
November 2nd, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Here are some pictures of the police in riot gear looking for the quarry shooter in the neighborhood across the street from H-P Cupertino (soon to become the Apple Space Ship Campus).
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/california-quarry-shooting-1317831040-slideshow/security-personnel-perform-yard-yard-searches-during-manhunt-photo-030741859.html
The heaviest police presence I’ve ever seen in my ‘hood was the lady on the corner having two patrol cars parked outside because she and the mister kept throwing things at each other.
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:48 pm
I’d rather feel like I was on the set of Reno 911.
November 2nd, 2011 at 5:33 pm
This house appears to be the “Slowest Flip in the West”, right? Sold in 2008 for $699K, and this house was built in 2011. With 3 years to get it right, seems like they could have tossed in some sod and a path in the backyard and done a quick check of the color brochure…but hey, they were probably a busy 3 years.
November 2nd, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Easy access to El Camino is worth of $1mln. $500K is price for the house.
November 2nd, 2011 at 8:10 pm
#10 – You’re doing it wrong.
#12 – Wouldn’t we all! Love that show!
November 3rd, 2011 at 11:45 am
Who are Jack&Jill, and why are they living upstairs?
November 3rd, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Who are Jack&Jill, and why are they living upstairs?
Because there aren’t any hills in Sunnyvale.