posted on September 10, 2003 09:25:20 AM new
Real Estate is totally different from the other ebay auctions. The sellers are running ads instead of auctions. They have to have the contact info listed.
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posted on September 10, 2003 11:32:58 AM new
I wonder what the market value of this place is worth. I bet it has been some time since Pierre has lived in a 2 bedroom house!
posted on September 10, 2003 11:40:22 AM new
That is a very low price for CA property. I realize that the bloom is gone in Silicon Valley, but that is darn cheap price.
posted on September 10, 2003 11:49:03 AM new
Sanmar's right on the property values here in CA. I'd be willing to bet the condo will go for at least $495,000.
Our daughter and husband bought a little house in Mountain View CA 7 years ago for $303,000. Get this: older house, one story, 3 small bedrooms, living room, one bath, kitchen, no dining room, one-car garage, no attic or basement, 50 x 100 lot.
It's now worth $800,000. In Mountain View, even with Silicon Valley not booming, a house goes up for sale with a starting price and gets bids from there, sometimes doubling the starting price. Incredible. We nearly croaked when we saw what they'd got for their money, but it's in Old Mountain View, safe neighborhood, two blocks from Castro St. where all the restaurants and shops are. Perfect location, highly desirable.
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posted on September 10, 2003 12:00:13 PM new
I moved away from LA a couple of years ago, and prices there have gone absoultely crazy, but not as high as silicon valley apparently.
I just purchased a house here in Oregon, and am thankful I live here. I have a beautiful 4 bedroom house, on a very large lot (the backyard goes all the way down to a creek) in a great neighborhood for what I could buy a 1 bedroom condo for in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. I don't know how people do it there, especially a first time home buyer.
posted on September 10, 2003 02:41:16 PM new
Santa Barbara is now the leader in high priced housing. The South Coast of Santa Barbara County, the Median price for a home is $810,000.00!!! North county where I live is $345,000.00. These figures came out last week
posted on September 10, 2003 03:16:44 PM new
I bet they don't get their price. Almost no buyer gives a rats butt that Pierre once lived there or started ebay there. It's in Campbell ( San Jose burb ) which has the lowest rents in the South Bay because the area isn't the greatest. Two or three years ago they had a chance to sell it at that price but not now as the quality jobs have mostly disappeared.
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posted on September 11, 2003 05:25:07 AM new
My husband and I were shopping this month for a house in the Pasadena/Glendale/Burbank areas.
Pasadena is very sophisticated and lots of old money neighborhoods. Glendale Built to capacity in the 80's and it now nearly all apartments with a very wealthy half of the city along the hills. Burbank is a mixed bag of TV/Media money with some bad/ugly areas near N. Hollywood. With no room to build anything new and the skyscrapers getting taller each year.
$250,000 will get you (only if you move on it really FAST) a really FUGLY 900 sq foot 2 bedroom apartment in an ugly nasty old building. A quarter of a million dollars and that is in the worst part of the city. It takes an average of 4 days to sell even the nastiest house here.
Don't believe until you see it???
search around realtor.com
Whoever said it was a buyers market is clearly 1,000's of miles away from Northern or Southern California.
I WILL NOT pay a quarter of a million dollars to live in a dump.
We gave up and this week we purchased a FABULOUS brand new 4 bedroom 2174 sq foot house in Las Vegas for $209,000. A house I get to fully customize inside and out!
