for sale: real estate update, May 2007

A few homes that struck me as I was browsing new (to me) search engine Oodle, which lets you look at classifieds at almost every major newspaper in the US (and plenty of not-so-major papers):

• just under a million dollars gets you 2,300 (very pretty) square feet in Pasadena CA;
• about the same amount brings a 4,200 square foot maple, cherry, oak, pecan, stone, brick & stucco bungalow on 100 acres in Royal AR;
• ...and a bit under $200,000 gets you a beautiful wood-shingle bungalow in Coos Bay OR;
• a big, beautiful bungalow with two rental units in Long Beach CA for $939,000;
• modest 1922 bungalow for $340k in St. Petersburg FL;
• an equally pretty two-story bungalow for only $76,000 in Fort Wayne IN;
• another one of those just-short-of-hideous faux-Bungalow McMansions; this one is $1.7 million in Chevy Chase MD;
• nicely-restored bungalow for $718,000 in "mid Los Angeles" CA;
• updated & restored bungalow with nice landscaping for $549,000 in Portland OR;
• modest stucco Spanish Revival bungalow in Tucson AZ for $275,000; and a
• very representative stucco Craftsman bungalow in Oakland CA for $539,000.

Comments

[Shawn]

The house you linked to in Fort Wayne just happens to be on the street that my mom grew up on. In April of 2006, the street was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are some amazing houses in that area. You can see photos of several other houses on that street here. I find it amazing that you can get such a cool house in a *great* historic neighborhood for only $76k!

[Shawn]

If you want to read more about that street/area where that $76k bungalow is, here's a post I wrote after a home/garden tour of the area last year. (For what it's worth, besides my mom growing up in that area, I have no connection/affiliation with the house that is for sale.)