s******g 发帖数: 61 | 1 This Silicon Valley 'teardown' just sold for $2.6 million
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Another day, another postcard from the increasingly bizarre alternative
universe that is Silicon Valley.
This time, it's the eye-popping story of a 908-square-foot, lovely-seeming
home in Palo Alto, California, that hit the market in February for an asking
price of $1,927,000.
Not only did the Stanford Avenue home, built in 1937 and described by Curbed
San Francisco as a "teardown," sell, the site reports it brought in $623,
000 over the asking price — that's a final sale price of $2,550,000.
Curbed reports:
Complete with hardwood floors, a brick wood-burning fireplace and exposed
wood beam vaulted ceiling, the well-worn abode was lovely in its own right.
But the real selling point here was the lot, approximately 7,500 square feet
of it, and the location, four blocks from California Avenue and around the
corner from Peer Park.
In all likelihood, this home will be torn down for a new construction.
One commenter on the post pointed to a truer example of a teardown less than
a mile away, on Oberlin Street in Palo Alto: a 760-square-foot two bedroom
home sold "as is" at the end of 2016, in what appears to be serious
disrepair, for $1,315,000.
The listing for the house and lot on the Girouard Properties website
advertised it as "an opportunity to build your dream home."
Living room, 280 Standford Avenue, Palo Alto, California
Photo via Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty, Dawn Thomas, listing
agent
Living room, 280 Standford Avenue, Palo Alto, California
The house on Stanford Avenue is only the most recent, and hardly the most
egregious, example of the burgeoning bubble on the Bay.
In the last two months, we've reported on the Twitter employee earning $160,
000 a year who says he's just scraping by in San Francisco, the Facebook
engineers earning between $100,000 and $700,000 a year who asked Mark
Zuckerberg to subsidize their sky-high rent and the fact that Google
employees could buy five houses for the price of one — if they left Silicon
Valley. |
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