We'll wrap up 2009 with a look at the highest and lowest prices paid for SFRs west of Sepulveda.
This post will focus on the Hill Section. We'll follow up with more on the Sand & Tree Sections soon in later posts. For the 2008 wrap-up, click here.
One nice improvement over last year's post – clicking on property…
We'll wrap up 2009 with a look at the highest and lowest prices paid for SFRs west of Sepulveda.
This post will focus on the Hill Section. We'll follow up with more on the Sand & Tree Sections soon in later posts. For the 2008 wrap-up,
click here.
One nice improvement over last year's post – clicking on property links now takes you to the full-feature listing pages, even for most closed sales, thanks to some hard work by Redfin to unleash that information. Redfin's improvement on already-great search is definitely one of our favorite side stories of 2009. Enjoy.
Hill SectionHighest price: 218 Anderson aimed high this year, beginning very near $10m ($9.988m) in February. Had it sold near there, it would have been on a par with last year's top-dollar sale,
900 Pacific, which went for $9.85m.
Alas, that was not to be, but Anderson still took top honors this year, selling for
$6.525m in November. The nearly $3.5m discount from start was also the biggest correction we saw in 2008 and the biggest we can recall in MB. (See "
Ground Down to $6.5m.")
The very big (8br/9ba, 8500 sq. ft.) home on an ocean-view double lot offers all kinds of extras, like 2 masters and almost 2 kitchens (one a "caterer's cooking station") plus a gym and lap pool.
And while it seems plenty nice as-is (click here for the
narrated virtual tour), the last we heard, the new owners plan to undertake a major new renovation. So the priciest sale in the Hills could get costlier as the months and years tick by.
Honorable mention: 814 10th is not officially sold yet — it's posted as being in escrow, and has been for several months. The ginormous new home (5br/7ba, 9000 sq. ft., including separate cabana) was listed at
$6.995m for about 4 months before finding a buyer. We hear that's a lease-option deal rather than a straight-up sale. So the eventual sale price could be near $7m and could qualify as highest for the year 2009, or they may not close at that price, leaving Anderson as #1 for 2009.
Lowest price: 402 Larsson (3br/3ba, 1800 sq. ft.) scraped out the bottom for the Hills this year at
$816k, a discount of 9% off this year's start price of $900k, and 26% off the list price from 2007 ($1.1m), when first this home hit the MBC radar.
In between, the home has faced foreclosure and cure, and appears to have been rented out a while. The buyers got a smallish fixer on the "wrong" side of Larsson, but hey, they're in the 90266, with a Robinson option, no less, with the lowest cost of entry for this year.
(To follow up on some questions regarding MBC's last reference to Robinson – the small school has to be viewed as a little perk of the area, but truly, if you're in any MB school, you're in fantastic shape.)
Runner-up: It's like splitting hairs here.
505 Anderson sold for a nearly insignificant $9k more than Larsson at
$825k. Similar size at 4br/2ba, 1850 sq. ft., a real fixer though without the Larsson liability.
That's the Hills. We'll follow up shortly with the Sand & Trees.
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Listings presented above are supplied via the MLS and are brokered by a variety of agents and firms, not Dave Fratello or Edge Real Estate Agency, unless so stated with the listing. Images and links to properties above lead to a full MLS display of information, including home details, lot size, all photos, and listing broker and agent information and contact information.