What Do You Get for a Million Bucks?
A selection of million dollar (plus) homes all around the country, as recently listed on Craigslist. I've tried to pull a sampling of the more A&C-ish properties, and have only included those that had photographs. It's amazing how much more you get for your money in some parts of the country, although when you get way up at the top end, it seems like quality has very little to do with the price - it's all about veneer, aesthetic, style and nothing else.
San Francisco:
- $1.33: gorgeous Queen Anne in the historically important Westwood Park neighborhood [map];
- $1.19: austere stuccoed bungalow in Forest Hill [map];
- $1.37: modernized Edwardian in Noe Valley [map];
- $1.1: well-maintained Victorian with second unit in Glen Park [map];
- $1.84: 4-level, 3,800 sq ft home of uncertain aesthetic provenance [map];
- $2.59: very pretty, perfectly-maintained Victoriam in Presidio Heights [map];
- $3.69: impressive Dolores Heights / Noe Valley Victorian [map];
- $1.69: Edwardian with stables & hay loft in Dolores Heights / Noe Valley [map];
- $1.5: narrow updated Italianate Victorian in Hayes Valley [map].
elsewhere in the Bay Area:
- $1.69: beautiful ultra-bungalow in Rockridge, Oakland [map];
- $1.37: cute 5-bedroom bungalow with big yard in Fremont [map].
throughout the country:
$3.45: custom contemporary Craftsman McMansion in Dallas GA;- $1.9: carefully-restored 150-year-old historic adobe hacienda in Taos, NM [map];
- $1.7: 60 acres and 6 homes ranging in size and quality in the beautiful Western Carolina Mountains [map];
- $2.6: gutted & remodeled Italianate row house in Wicker Park, Chicago;
- $2.7: 21-unit Mission Revival apartment building in Los Angeles [map];
- $2.1: 1927 Spanish villa in the Hollywood hills [map];
- $4.97: well-maintained Victorian in Minneapolis [map];
- $1.8: modest-on-the-outside Queens brick bungalow [map];
- $1.6: 18th-century "gentleman's farmhouse" in Philadelphia [map];
- $1.99: new, attractive and huge Mission Revival home in San Diego's Point Loma [map];
- $1.5: 1928 sort-of Craftsman with ocean views in Encinitas, CA [map].