504 MONTEREY Rd #00011 Pacifica, CA 94044

504 MONTEREY Rd #00011 Pacifica, CA 94044

Price: $405,000

Beds: 3
Baths: 2
Sq. Ft.: 1,050
$/Sq. Ft.: $386
Lot Size: -
Age (Years): 27
Year Built: 1981

Listing price history:

Date Price
Nov 13, 2007 $699,000
Feb 06, 2008 $599,000
Feb 18, 2008 $499,000
Mar 07, 2008 $405,000

Last sale: Aug 24, 2006 $660,000

Loss if sold for asking: $255,000 or  38.6%

Comments:  This one just went through a $94k price reduction a couple days ago.  It looks like a decent condo.  The Redfin description says “daysleeper, please tone down voice while talking”.  That sounds pretty scary since it sounds like a vampire or something lives there.

3354 BRITTAN Ave #00009 San Carlos, CA 94070

3354 BRITTAN Ave #00009 San Carlos, CA 94070

Price: $449,000

Beds: 2
Baths: 2
Sq. Ft.: 1,040
$/Sq. Ft.: $432
Lot Size: -
Age (Years): 34
Year Built: 1974

Listing price history:

Date Price
Nov 23, 2007 $549,000
Feb 15, 2008 $449,000

Last sale: May 12, 2005 $510,000

Loss if sold for asking: $61000 or  12%

Comments:  This listing is pretty interesting to me because I used to live in that complex.  It’s a nice area on the top of Brittan in San Carlos, but the condos are pretty old.  When I lived there in 2005 these condos were selling like hotcakes for ridiculous prices in a matter of days and the real estate agents delivered the sales notices to every condo as a way to gloat or something.  I lived in the 3 bedroom version with 2 roommates and paid $650 in rent per month.  So I’d say it’s much more economical to rent these condos.

453 CORK HARBOUR Cir #H Redwood Shores, CA 94065

453 CORK HARBOUR Cir #H Redwood Shores, CA 94065

Price: $595,000

Beds: 3
Baths: 2
Sq. Ft.: 1,328
$/Sq. Ft.: $448
Lot Size: -
Age (Years): 22
Type: Condominium

Listing history:

Date Price
Aug 23, 2007 $685,000
Oct 15, 2007 $669,000
Dec 13, 2007 $650,000
Jan 29, 2008 $619,000
Apr 22, 2008 $595,000

Last sale: Jun 06, 2005 $648,000

Loss if sold for asking: $53,000 or  8.2%

Comments:  This is another oldie but a goodie.  The sellers tried to break even last year, but failed.  I think it may just follow the market down some more.  This is a condo in  a landfill with a $460 HOA.

369 N CLAREMONT St #00002 San Mateo, CA 94401

 369 N CLAREMONT St #00002 San Mateo, CA 94401

Price: $425,000

Beds: 2
Baths: 2
Sq. Ft.: 1,237
$/Sq. Ft.: $344
Lot Size: -
Age (Years): 16
Type: Townhouse

Listing price history:

Date Price
Mar 22, 2007 $599,000
May 09, 2007 $570,000
Nov 26, 2007 $497,889
Feb 18, 2008 $450,000
May 05, 2008 $425,000

Last sale:   Jun 08, 2005 $535,000

Loss if sold for asking: $110000 or  20.6%

Comments: This is such a good example of following the market down.  Apparently the sellers listed this puppy last year hoping for a profit, and now it is a short sale after 413 days on the market.

Updates of Properties Listed in 9/2007

On this blog I have featured quite a few properties that have been on the market for a while. Today I figured that I should do an update on the properties that were first listed in September 2007. Here they are:

1 Mandalay PL #1011 South San Francisco, CA 94080 - This one got another $101k haircut so the current price is $549,000.
303 PHILIP DR #00306 Daly City, CA 94015 - This one is unchanged so the price is still $459,900.
303 PHILIP DR #00305 Daly City, CA 94015 - Yeah this is the next door neighbor of the last one. It got a $19k price reduction so it’s now at $480,000.
1340 WINDERMERE AVE Menlo Park, CA 94025 - Another house on the doomed Windermere Ave. It looks like this one’s price has been reduced $40k to $459000 since it has been on this blog.
350 MICHELLE LN Daly City, CA 94015 - This property is pending with release, which means that an offer has been made. We will see in a couple month what the sales price was.
431 DOUGLAS AVE Redwood City, CA 94063 - This one is unchanged and still for sale at $350,000.

The other two properties I listed have gone off the market. I am not sure if they’re sold, though. I will check back on them in a couple months.

2191 POPLAR Ave East Palo Alto, CA 94303 - 100k Pricecut every 2 Weeks

 2191 POPLAR Ave East Palo Alto, CA 94303

Price: $199,000

Beds: 2
Baths: 1
Sq. Ft.: 920
$/Sq. Ft.: $216
Lot Size: 5,000 Sq. Ft.
Age (Years): 58
Year Built: 1950

Listing price history:

Date Price
Mar 07, 2008 $499,000
Mar 19, 2008 $450,000
Apr 04, 2008 $399,000
Apr 14, 2008 $350,000
Apr 23, 2008 $299,000
May 08, 2008 $199,000

Last sale:

Aug 21, 1995 $148,000

Comments:  My friend Michael showed me this one.  It hasn’t gone lower than its last sales price, yet, but it is getting $100k price cuts every two weeks  since last month.  So maybe if you wait for two weeks this one will roll back to 1995.

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