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Ansel Adams home for sale

I don't know the comps in the neighborhood, but surely you need something to justify $1,430/sq.ft., particularly since the house is split between two buildings, and all the adjacent homes are squashed together on the hillside.
 
The name draws attention. While attention won't necessarily support a higher price, it doesn't hurt.
 
faberryman said:
I don't know the comps in the neighborhood, but surely you need something to justify $1,430/sq.ft., particularly since the house is split between two buildings, and all the adjacent homes are squashed together on the hillside.
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Is there any chance of cropping and/or shrinking that graphic - it duplicates itself?
 
DREW WILEY said:
…Just one more parcel of overpriced real estate…..
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I wonder about the term “overpriced.” If it sells for close to the asking price, is it ”overpriced?”

We just had a Blue Angels Air Show show here, the first in 20 years, and the tickets averaged something like $40, up to $125. People here were outraged and complained on social media that the tickets were “overpriced,” yet the show sold out. I hear the same when it comes to concert tickets, the price of F-150 trucks (the standard Montana vehicle) yet they sure seem to sell lots of them.
 
Local real estate asking prices have gone down just a little. But over the past three years, there's been almost a bidding war for available homes, and properties nearly always sold for well above the asking price.

But trucks? My gosh. If you need a ranch or construction vehicle, so be it. I spent the last week over on the east side of the Sierra where gas prices have been higher than nearly anywhere else in the contiguous US as long as I can remember. I feel the pinch putting 50 bucks worth into my little Toyota Tundra 4WD, which was plenty big for my own little ranch when I still had it; but then someone on the adjacent pump would drop 150 bucks for half a tank in their big Dodge Ram or Ford, and most of those sure as heck weren't all ranchers or builders. Not to mention motorhomes! I had a neighbor across the street from me here looking at me with disdain whenever I came back with my pickup covered with mud. He had both a new Toyota Land Cruiser and a new Lexus SUV in his driveway, and never left a paved urban street or the freeway. Then he complained about his mortgage. All about style, bragging rights to a more expensive urban SUV than thou hast, that's it.

Same with houses. I've known billionaires just as deeply in debt as ordinary people because they lived above their own means too. An hour north is the ruins of the monstrous Jack London Wolf House. Once he couldn't keep paying his workman, the whole thing mysteriously burnt down one night. Similar things have happened to rich contemporary moguls who decided to start stiffing their workmen instead of scaling down their giant ego building projects.
 
faberryman said:
I don't know the comps in the neighborhood, but surely you need something to justify $1,430/sq.ft., particularly since the house is split between two buildings, and all the adjacent homes are squashed together on the hillside.
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Unfortunately $>1400 per square foot of living space is not uncommon in the SF Bay area...
A wreck of a 1200 sq.ft. house sold in the 50'x120' lot across the street from us some 9 years ago, at $1.3 million ...the purchaser immediately tore it down (except for one wall) to rebuild with no bigger footprint (and not add a 2nd floor), and convert the garage to an ADU...it last sold again in 2022 at $2.86 million for 1750 sq.ft. (>$1630/sq.ft.)
 
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I am shocked that.....Circa 2020..... people still do not understand 'supply and demand'.
That house in just ONE block from Sea Cliff and 25 North.
As others have said............ China Beach Baker Beach, Ocean Beach, G G Park, good public transportation access, etc etc etc.
It is in a desirable spot in SF.
There are not a lot of houses there and none being built. They do not come up for sale often.
This is not Manteca with Zillions of tract homes for sale.

His name means nothing. It has not been his home foe over 60 years. How many people really recognize the name.?
Forgive me for not knowing current celebrities.........but it is not as though Taylor Swift or Madonna just moved out last week.
It is, simply, a unique property in a ritzy part of San Francisco.

I had 2 friends that owned a home on 25 North. They sold it in the 1990s.
They would have a stroke... a happy one..... if they could sell it now.
 
It seems that Sotheby’s and all of the newspapers have it wrong. Perhaps they should come to this forum for real estate marketing and valuation wisdom. LOL
 
CMoore said:
I am shocked that.....Circa 2020..... people still do not understand 'supply and demand'.
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I fully understand supply and demand. I simply find it hard to understand that a couple can so readily afford the $572k (20% down) to qualify to buy a $2.86 million home across the street from me, and assuming 4% loan (absurdly low, these days) that means $10900 excluding property tax and insurance...and if you assume that conforms to 30% of gross (per bank guideline), that calculates to gross pay over $36000/mo gross pay !
At today's interest rates, the housepayment is $16000, meaning gross pay (per bank guideline) is over $53000 per month!
 

Some people have A LOT of money.
5 million dollar homes are not unique these days.
 

I know a couple who both work in tech and that is well within their salary range. The cost of the mortgage plus the extras are about the same percentage of income as mine when I bought my first house in 1982 although I was able to get in with no down (GI Bill) but at 12% interest. When we'd had enough of Southern California (mostly the traffic and lines) we sold out, moved to Montana and boughtt 2 houses, cash. That seems to be a thing today but we did it 32 years ago. I eventually sold off the rental to my tenant but a few years ago bought the house across the street, fixed it up, and it's been a good rental. Easy to keep an eye on. Of course, Montanans hate Californians for this type of thing, well, and hate us for other things too.
 
DREW WILEY said:
I spent the last week over on the east side of the Sierra where gas prices have been higher than nearly anywhere else in the contiguous US as long as I can remember. ...
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Makes me feel good -- one of the few places higher than Humboldt Counts (by 10 to 20 cents/gal). Also real nice having my eCargo bike. I am usually not in a hurry to get anywhere.
 
Vaughn said:
Makes me feel good -- one of the few places higher than Humboldt Counts (by 10 to 20 cents/gal). Also real nice having my eCargo bike. I am usually not in a hurry to get anywhere.
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Just curious...San Mateo Co middle grade (89 octane) is $5.89 most places...whaddabout in Humboldt Co?!
 

Knob and tube is safe if undisturbed and not packed with insulation. The only k&t in my house left is inaccessible in the walls. As long as you do not blow in insulation, you are good. Here, k&t is grandfathered, so I am not in code violation.

PS. I take no exception to the rest of this fine post.

I have spent the last few days (besides work; no photography), building Craftsman style (8 3/4" high!) baseboard in the kitchen. The style is similar, not the same, as the original baseboard in the rest of the house. Unfortunately, the kitchen was "modernized" in the '70s...
 
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The house I bought in ‘82 in SoCal was a 1926 Craftsman bungalow that I acquired from the original owner. The only upgrade was the bathroom. Luckily, none of the original wide wood molding had ever been painted. During the 10 years I had it I gutted the kitchen and enlarged it by taking out a wall that had created what I think they called the “service porch.” I built all the cabinetry myself and kept with the period. I rebuilt and retained the fold out ironing board.

In my current home, a mid-50s rancher with a full basement, I’ve been going through room at a time, resurfacing the hardwood floors and putting in new molding that replicates that ‘20s bungalow. I added crown molding and faux beams in the ceilings of the living and dining rooms. I painted one with a rose and the other with a green, both picked from a 1930s color sample. Of course the room is furnished with antiques, some of my art, and, sometimes to my wife’s eye rolls, my many floor model 1930s radios.
 
Right now, you almost have to give away a nice house with acreage in portions of the State. It's easy to spend more on a good water well than outright building a new home. And as far as obtaining fire insurance anymore in wooded areas - good luck with that one!

The reason for the absurdly high prices here in the Bay Area is 1) It's where the high paying jobs are; 2) buildings need to be especially well built or renovated for sake of earthquake resistance; 3) the interface between urban use and public space is locked in pretty hard (thank goodness), so there is little space for more local development. You either build higher, smaller, or else commute in. 4) The coast has a moderate climate, but inland it can be hot as hell in the summer. We also have far better water quality, and certainly better coffee! Then add the amenities of nearby beaches, redwood forests, and hundreds of miles of local trails, the best of universities and a great many highly educated creative people, and and you begin to understand the gravitational pull. Still, the ole hillbilly in me gets awfully homesick at times for an entirely different kind of lifestyle, where coyotes outnumber people twenty to one; and the nearest stoplight is two hours away.
 
DREW WILEY said:
. 4) The coast has a moderate climate, but inland it can be hot as hell in the summer.
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Yes.......... I lived in The Sunset. Judah and 24
There were times in the summer when i would go see my Father in San Jose.
68 in SF and 103 in San Jose
 
I get the wind and for howling right through the Golden Gate straight across the Bay to here. And there have been many days this past summer when it never got up to 50 here, but was up to 60 degrees warmer right over the hill, in the Walnut Creek area. It was 20 degrees warmer just five miles away. Microclimates.
 
wiltw said:
Just curious...San Mateo Co middle grade (89 octane) is $5.89 most places...whaddabout in Humboldt Co?!
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$6 to $6.20 for mid-grade
 
Costco is a little cheaper. That 300 miles north of SF makes a difference in price...most of our fuel is barged into Humboldt Bay. We had a loaded cement truck tip over and spill its load on Hwy 101 yesterday that closed that artery into the county for the day.

I spent yesterday printing platinum/palladium prints from 5x7 and some 120 film (6x10 negs). My start got a little delayed as our first good rain of Fall started and I had water dripping from my kitchen ceiling (where I process the prints). So out into the rain and onto the roof before I could put my first neg under the UV light. Fortunately an easy fix -- some animal had pulled out some roofing from under the eves looking for bugs and I just had to shove it back.
 
Down along 395 on the east side of the Sierra, it was hard to find Regular gas under $6 a gallon. Places like Bridgeport are always exceptionally high, nearing $8 per gallon. But they have a captive audience. The weekend I drove back, dozens and dozens of Harley motorcycle club members were crossing Sonora Pass on their way to the giant annual Harley rally in Bridgeport. All fun types - no thug gangs like the Hells Angels allowed - though some of them dress up for fun as it they were rogue bikers.

We got only the southern tail of that rain last nite, just enough to wet the ground. I have a little more gutter work still to do; but the roof patching itself is all done. Need to get back to film development this afternoon.

The high country got really wet down to around Virginia Lakes, with afternoon wind and cloud going clear to the very southern end of the range. But that's what I was after photographically - weather. My friends finally made it out of the upper Kern after 18 days of backpacking with some close calls. Fortunately, one of them had a real Bibler tent along; the typical kind would have been shredded up on the high ridges. The road and trail openings are so late this year that an awful lot of people are heading in right now probably without ideal gear or experience.
 
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That's happening here where I live in mid-New Jersey. Farmers and horse ranchers are selling their property for millions to the home builders. You can't blame them although I'd like the farms and ranches to remain. But life goes on.
 
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