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Auggie

(31,221 posts)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 11:08 AM Mar 2015

San Francisco home 'in a deteriorative state' sells for $1.2 million (Pic heavy)

A home needing some serious work just sold for $411,000 over its asking price, Curbed SF reports.

The four-bedroom home, located in San Francisco's Outer Sunset neighborhood, was listed for $799,000 in February and sold for $1.21 million just two weeks after coming onto the market.

That's roughly 50% above asking and a lot for a house that even the listing warns is "in a deteriorative state; needs everything, not for the novice." According to Redfin, the buyer paid in cash.

It's just another example of how crazy the San Francisco real estate market has become.

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/This-San-Francisco-home-in-a-deteriorative-6161821.php#photo-7725600









I think a demolition and total rebuild would be smarter.

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San Francisco home 'in a deteriorative state' sells for $1.2 million (Pic heavy) (Original Post) Auggie Mar 2015 OP
They are buying it for the land still_one Mar 2015 #1
That's what I was thinking. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #3
I think so. It is still outrageous. Might be for a 4 plex, since new construction I don't think is still_one Mar 2015 #8
Looks like a HandyYuppie's special. nt LiberalEsto Mar 2015 #2
Free Republic Welcome Center. TheCowsCameHome Mar 2015 #4
..... Warpy Mar 2015 #5
obviously it's to tear it down samsingh Mar 2015 #6
Some Asian multi-millionaire will buy it because it looks cheap to them. Cleita Mar 2015 #7
plus the absentees have no taste whatsoever: it's like the house from "Fun With Dick and Jane" MisterP Mar 2015 #11
If this sold for this price, my little home in SF would go for a lot more kimbutgar Mar 2015 #9
In the Outer Sunset?! KamaAina Mar 2015 #10
Yes, but close to the colleges and good public transportation. Mr.Bill Mar 2015 #12
the milk crate in the shower They_Live Mar 2015 #13

still_one

(92,482 posts)
8. I think so. It is still outrageous. Might be for a 4 plex, since new construction I don't think is
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 11:42 AM
Mar 2015

subject to rent control.

Warpy

(111,405 posts)
5. .....
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 11:19 AM
Mar 2015


I'll take the stove, those vintage double oven gas stoves were wonderful things. The fool who plunked down a million in cash (who does that?) can have what the stove is sitting in.

It's hard to say what will happen here, depends on how sound the structure is. The rooms look big enough to do something with but it looks like a rental that's been beat to hell since the early 60s, the date of the last renovation.

Of course, if it's sitting on a large lot, it will be a teardown that will be replaced by some pseudo Spanish ugly heap of masonry built out to the property line on all sides.

ETA: The lot, not that huge but a decent size. The house's upper floor has a lovely view of electrical wires.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
7. Some Asian multi-millionaire will buy it because it looks cheap to them.
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 11:30 AM
Mar 2015

That's what happened in LA in the early eighties when real estate prices shot through the roof and Japanese and Saudi investors swooped in and bought up the newly inflated real estate because no one local was buying it. Angelenos were selling their property for prices that were almost five times what they paid for it and moving north to places like Seattle to buy real estate, when it was still very cheap, often buying many properties with the money they got. When I asked a Japanese acquaintance, why?, he answered that it looked cheap to Japanese businessmen compared to the price of Tokyo real estate.

If not, on the other hand, no one will pay the price and it will come down. But being it's in SF it will always be more expensive than elsewhere.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
11. plus the absentees have no taste whatsoever: it's like the house from "Fun With Dick and Jane"
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 02:08 PM
Mar 2015

had a baby with the castle in "Rocky Horror Picture Show"!

kimbutgar

(21,236 posts)
9. If this sold for this price, my little home in SF would go for a lot more
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 12:23 PM
Mar 2015

I am on top of a mountain with a sweeping view.

This house that sold probably has a big lot so it can be torn down and made into multiple condos. They do this all the time in SF. An old earthquake shack across from childhood home in the Richmond district got torn down and they built a dwelling on the lot.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
10. In the Outer Sunset?!
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 01:40 PM
Mar 2015

For those of you down south, that's all the way across The City from Market St., Union Square, etc. And, despite the name, it's the heavy-duty fog belt!

Mr.Bill

(24,346 posts)
12. Yes, but close to the colleges and good public transportation.
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 05:09 PM
Mar 2015

A multi-unit would bring a fortune in rent.

They_Live

(3,241 posts)
13. the milk crate in the shower
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 06:07 PM
Mar 2015

had me laughing for some reason.

"I can get closer to the shower head this way!"

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