Here’s a very Bay Area solution to the often noted challenge that “they’re not making any more land.” Build your house on water! Sound like a plan to you? Let’s swim on up to WaterWorld, courtesy of Burbed reader J from Alameda!
Note: this is a Bay Area solution, but definitely not a REAL Bay Area fix. RBA houses are in the RBA in the first place because they have land they aren’t making any more of.
2 Beds
1 Baths
1,296 Sq. Ft.
$258 / Sq. Ft.
Built: 1972
Lot Size: —
Sold On: Nov 9, 2010
Status: Sold
Type: Detached
Stories: 2
Community: Barnhill Marina
MLS#: 40489839
Style: Contemporary
View: City Lights, Marina, San Francisco, Water
County: Alameda
This beautifully remodeled 2 bed 1 bath floating home features estuary and SF views, hardwood floors, new paint, wains coating, vaulted ceiling with exposed wood beams, new appliances, stain glass windows, three decks, and skylights. Close to BART, ferry, train, and Fwy.
Here’s what J floated over with the house:
And this would be cheapest SFR/Floating. Also should get a prize for longest price history….
Unfortunately, would you believe this property was delisted, we swear we are not making this up, the very day we head off to Redfin to write it up? Which means we don’t know how many days it was on the market for but about two years. We’ve already done a property that was sitting on MLS for four years! And this one for more than three!
But while you may be at sea here, the agent says it’s close to everything: BART, ferry, train, and Fwy. It’s even closer to the Posey (underground) tube. The map clearly shows it runs right underneath you.
Meanwhile, we looked high (Zillow) and low (Sawbuck) for the newly pulled listing without much success. Here’s what we found in Google cache, but it appears to be a completely different floating house, despite the listing history lining up perfectly.
2394 Mariner Square Drive E6
Alameda, CA 94501
$229,000
1 Beds
1 Baths
— Sq. Ft.
Built: 1968
Lot Size: —
On Redfin: 537 days
Type: Detached
Stories: 2
Community: Barnhill Marina
MLS#: 40533694
Style: Contemporary
View: City Lights, Downtown, Marina, Water
County: Alameda
Floating Home. Open plan for kitchen/living room and den; upper level suite for bedroom and sitting area. 360 degree view from upper deck; elegant tiled first floor. New carpet in upper level bedroom suite.
One bedroom, two bedrooms, so what? No square feet, 1300 square feet, big deal. Blue trim, green trim, doesn’t mean anything. C3, E6, you sunk my battleship!
Now, here’s one of the 360 degrees of views you can enjoy from the upper deck. Also check out this delightful photo of the house and environs from homes.com!
Bunus: Sold in 2007 for $448K.
Another bunus: This old listing (with old paint job) says there’s a $523 a month berth fee. But that’s nothing. Trulia says this place is a mobile/manufactured home. They’re the only site that says so, which means they could be wrong. But what could possibly be better than a trailer house in a trailer flotilla?