IMAGINE Your Mega Estate with Vineyards & Helipad
We recently received this email (without the pictures; I selected them especially for the excess smug):
Open House 23+ Acres $1,288,000 in Los Gatos Sunday 01-29-2012 OPEN 1-5pm
Take in the spectacular views!
OPENHOUSESunday 1PM-5PM!
21631 HICKS Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95032
MLS# 81200553
23 beautiful acres with SFR
Priced to sell @ $1,288,000
Spectacular views of city lights, Lexington Reservoir, the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Valley.
Build your dream estate on this 23 acre property with over 3 buildable pads.
A secluded and private retreat close to town!
Possibilities are endless, vineyards, horses, lush gardens, orchard, solar, Helipad.
Only 5 minutes to Los Gatos.
Valuable property that is priced to sell now.
Thanks,
agent name and phone
p.s. Email me if you would like to see photos of the property.
Hicks Road? Why did that seem familiar? Ah, yes!
We don’t know why this agent’s email got caught in a time warp where it didn’t show up until yesterday, but we can only assume it was sent to Burbed because they want the property featured again. The least we could do is oblige them. Quickly. Click on through to see how the place is being marketed now.
21631 HICKS Rd
Los Gatos, CA 95032
$1,288,000
BEDS: –
BATHS: –
SQ. FT.: –
LOT SIZE: 24.02 Acres
PROPERTY TYPE: Residential Land (Single Family)
VIEW: Mountains, Lake, Valley, City Lights
COMMUNITY: Los Gatos/Monte Sereno
COUNTY: Santa Clara
MLS#: 81200553
SOURCE: MLSListings
STATUS: Active
ON REDFIN: 60 daysWow! Only Minutes to the High Tech Hub of Silicon Valley! This 23+ Acres LosGatos/MonteSereno property offers Breathtaking Panoramic Views & several building site options. IMAGINE Your Mega Estate with Vineyards & Helipad. Then Imagine the Feeling of coming home to a Serene Retreat above the Rush of the city on the Top of the World! Is this your Dream Estate? Existing 3BR/2BA 1704 s. f. guest house.
Interesting. So now this property is a land sale rather than a house sale. Would that mean 50 percent financing instead of 80 or 90 percent? The 1973 house is still in some of the pictures.
I also like the good sense of humor the agent shows in calling this place “minutes from the High Tech Hub of Silicon Valley,” when his own directions tell us you have to drive up four miles of Hicks Road to even get to the lot line, and that’s not counting the section on Kennedy or Shannon. Google says this is 20 minutes from downtown Los Gatos, so it may yet fail the “gallon of brie test.”
Also do check out the full listing history from Zillow. Landowner, meet the market forces. This will not be a fair fight.
Also check out the only picture on Zillow. Awesome sauce! Nice job with the focus button, dude.
That sense of vagueness and imprecision should help everyone IMAGINE better. As in “Then Imagine the Feeling of coming home to a Serene Retreat above the Rush of the city on the Top of the World!”
Maybe you could IMAGINE better if there were fewer capital letters?
March 7th, 2012 at 8:22 am
Two 8′s in the price has not been doing the job, prediction: next price drop will have three eights in the price.
March 7th, 2012 at 8:37 am
> Possibilities are endless, vineyards, horses, lush gardens, orchard, solar, Helipad
Missile silo, death ray, magnetic telescope, Annihilatrix… heck yeah, sign me up!
March 7th, 2012 at 9:02 am
More possibilities : Bankruptcy, desititution, poor house, regret.
March 7th, 2012 at 9:36 am
I also like the good sense of humor the agent shows in calling this place “minutes from the High Tech Hub of Silicon Valley,” when his own directions tell us you have to drive up four miles of Hicks Road to even get to the lot line, and that’s not counting the section on Kennedy or Shannon.
Well, it does say IMAGINE your helipad. Duh.
Purchased for $275k in 1998. I wonder if that was an arms length transaction.
March 7th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Well, it’s better than Summit Rd. Still, this is serious hermit territory.
Hicks was originally built for HS students to drink beer and try to get laid. I’m shocked Los Gatos rezoned this lot for residential development.
March 7th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
“Over three buildable pads” – Not sure why the number of pads cannot be quantified but thus must mean there is a way to quadruple your investment. Woo hoo because you are close to Los Gatos.
March 7th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Rezone it to Monte Sereno and it will be instantly worth 10 times the asking price. Los Guettos doesn’t have the same prestige.
March 7th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
At least three pads, yeah. One of the various attempts at selling this property had said there were eight pads. Where are these pads hiding that five of them were completely misplaced? Is someone playing five-pad Monte with them?
March 7th, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Honestly, if I was the idle rich, 24 acres within an hour of the bay area would be pretty sweet. But I don’t think I’d go for THESE 24 acres. I’d want real redwoods.
March 7th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Bummed I missed the open house. Must have been spectacular. Maybe somebody there walked off with some of the pads. Were there hors d’oeuvres? I’m trying to think of a wine that pairs with delusion. And did they mean helipad or hella pads?