Los Angeles | $899,000
Two bedroom, one bathroom bungalow inbuilt 1914 on 0.1 acre lot
This house is positioned on a brief street in Highland Park, near the shopping areas of Figueroa Street and York Boulevard with its bars, restaurants and small grocery stores. It is roughly a 10-minute drive from Occidental College in Eagle Rock and 20 minutes from Americana at Brand in Glendale.
Downtown Los Angeles is roughly a 20-minute drive away. Dodger Stadium is quarter-hour away.
Size: 916 square feet
Price per square meter: $981
Inside: Tall hedges surround the front of the home, providing privacy from the road and sheltering a small courtyard with citrus fruit trees.
The front door opens onto a foyer with original hardwood flooring, an area the owners have converted right into a home office. Wooden floors result in the living and dining areas with white partitions and trim and windows to the front and side that fill the room with natural light.
Accessed by a door on the rear of this space, the kitchen has partitions covered in white subway tiles, chrome steel appliances and a stainless-steel sink under a deep window overlooking a side courtyard. At the far end of the kitchen is a small laundry room with a stacked washer and dryer.
The main bedroom is off the front room and has enough space for a king-size bed and a wardrobe with a custom storage system. The penny tiled bathroom with combined bath and shower is accessed from the master suite and the back hallway. The guest room, also exiting the corridor, has direct access to the yard.
The original one-car garage has been converted into a versatile space now used as a house office and music studio, with paneled partitions and concrete floors.
External space: The garden is grassed and enormous enough for a small dining table and chairs.
taxes: $11,232 (estimated)
Contact: Jennifer Cahill and Kurt Wisner, The Local Real Estate Group, Compass, 323-667-0700; localregroup.com
San Francisco | $900,000
Three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom loft-style unit in a 1998 condominium constructing
This constructing is positioned within the South of Market area, also often called SoMa. It is only a 10-minute walk from City Hall and the University of California College of the Law. It is even closer to the Market Street section with the Whole Foods food market and BART station. The Asian Art Museum is lower than 800 meters away.
It takes 20 minutes to drive over the Bay Bridge to Oakland; it takes about half an hour to cross the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County.
Size: 1296 square feet
Price per square meter: $694
Inside: This apartment’s front door opens onto the important living area. Hardwood floors run from the doorway through the living area on the rear of this level which includes a fireplace, double height ceilings, floor to ceiling windows overlooking the road and glass doors opening onto a balcony.
The open kitchen, closer to the doorway, features chrome steel appliances, light wood cabinets and dark red subway tile, in addition to space for a small dining table. On the wall facing the kitchen is a built-in desk with cabinets and tiles to match the kitchen. There can also be a laundry room and laundry room on this a part of the unit.
A spiral staircase between the living and dining areas results in the main bedroom, which overlooks the ground below. The bedroom is large enough for a king-size bed; the attached bathroom has a glass shower.
Stairs to the best of the living area result in the bottom level of the unit where there are two guest rooms, each large enough to accommodate a double bed and a small desk. One of the bedrooms has a rest room with a shower cabin.
External space: In addition to a personal balcony off the front room, residents have access to a spacious communal rooftop terrace. This unit is allocated one automobile parking space within the secure parking garage.
taxes: $11,256 (estimated) and monthly homeowner association fee of $761
Contact: Scott Orich, Flyhomes, 408-214-9609; flyhomes.com
long beach | $900,000
1941 two bedroom, one bathroom cottage on 0.1 acre lot
This house is a number of blocks from Long Beach’s largest outdoor recreation facilities, including the Billie Jean King Tennis Center, a public 18-hole golf course designed in 1910, and the Colorado Lagoon, a wetland area with a beach and playground. Woodrow Wilson High School and Bruin Stadium, the baseball field utilized by the California State University Long Beach team, are also nearby and the campus is lower than a 10-minute drive away.
Retro Row, a stretch of Fourth Street lined with vintage furniture and outfitters, is a five-minute drive away. Downtown Long Beach and the waterfront are roughly quarter-hour’ drive away.
Size: 1290 square feet
Price per square meter: $698
Inside: From the road, a cobbled staircase surrounded by a neat hedge results in the front door. It opens directly onto the front room with a wood floor and fireside surrounded by brick and a black painted fireplace.
Behind the front room is a sunny dining room with an original built-in wardrobe and windows overlooking the side courtyard. This space connects to a kitchen with white cabinets and appliances, a yellow tile back wall, and access to a comfortable paneled sunbath that vendors use as a mix study and residential office. Both the kitchen and the terrace have access to the yard.
A corridor from the dining room results in two bedrooms. The main bedroom has a window overlooking the road, a big built-in wardrobe and space for a queen-size bed. The guest room behind the home has sliding glass doors that open onto a sunny room. The bathroom, positioned between the 2 bedrooms, has a walk-in shower and a separate bathtub.
External space: The backyard gives a way of privacy with mature trees surrounding the lawn and enormous patio. The detached garage has one automobile parking space; there may be room for an additional automotive within the driveway.
taxes: $11,256 (estimated)
Contact: Lissa Lebel, Sotheby’s International Realty, Los Feliz brokerage, 323-842-0003; sothebysrealty.com
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