So you blew it with pricing your house. Don't worry, the buyers are still there, hoping to bring you to the right place.
That's what went down at 420 21st (3br/2ba, 1465 sq. ft.), a smallish house on a half lot in the Sand Section.
This one launched in May, in heady times as the market was rolling along.
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So you blew it with pricing your house. Don't worry, the buyers are still there, hoping to bring you to the right place.
That's what went down at 420 21st (3br/2ba, 1465 sq. ft.), a smallish house on a half lot in the Sand Section.
This one launched in May, in heady times as the market was rolling along.
Start price: $2.200M.
Wow oh wow.
At the time, the listing was showing the home as 1148 sq. ft. based on public records. That $2.2M price would translate to... wait for it... $1,916/PSF.
That would have been a chart-topper of a price for a Sand Section house in 2014. You'd be in rare company with unique properties like the Dwell magazine-featured 137 15th (2br/2ba, 900 sq. ft., $1.950M, $2,193/PSF) or the new construction at 124 23rd (3br/4ba, 2040 sq. ft., $3.300M, $1,618/PSF).
Does 420 21st match up against those properties? We'll just leave the question mark there.
Soon, 420 21st dropped to $1.995M – not much better – and hung around there for several weeks.
It seemed a classic case of a seller who wasn't really a seller, dipping a toe in the market just to see what might come. The listing fell off our radar somewhere in July.
Ah, but persistence pays.
Someone found a way straight to the seller, began a discussion and wound up making a deal.
The sale of 420 21st has just posted, and it's not $2.200M, not $1.995M, but $1.629M.
Also, the house grew in the process – an appraiser taped out the house at 1465 sq. ft., or about 300 sq. ft. more than the prior listing said. Suddenly, a PPSF of $1,100 and change doesn't look so bad (for a half-lot house, where so much value is in the land).
Technically, the old listing quit, and the new sale was made off-market.
So, sure, that initial listing was laughably ambitious. As proof, the final sale price was 26% lower.
But they got it done, didn't they?
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