House hunting in SoCal-

[MsBeverlyHills]

for the past couple months, ive been looking to buy in the Santa Monica area.... even tho asking prices are down- its still pretty crazy what some peeps think theyre properties are worth-

is this serioulsy what $1.2ml buys ya in Santa Monica??? OMG!

2124 3RD St, Santa Monica, CA 90405 | MLS# 10-438251

anyone else house hunting & whats your experiences? thanks, MsBH

 

[iggy]

talk to ceo. I know for a fact everything is pricey as hell down there.

 

[iggy]

the governator needs to do something about this

 

[hurricane]

lol @ that house ...better off knocking it down and building another

 

[kx250rider]

That's not surprising at all. It's 2 blocks from the beach, and is (or will be) rezoned for multi-unit residential or even maybe mixed use. There's a burned out house on PCH just north of the pier, which has an asking price of $21,000,000. AS-IS!

Personally I wouldn't live in Santa Monica even in a free mansion, as I don't agree with the political atmosphere there. I have a friend who owns a 12-unit apartment building, and she got so angry with the soviet-minded Santa Monica city government, that she kicked everyone out, and it has been sitting vacant for 10 years. Not to mention that the whole Santa Monica Bay coastline is full of greenies and leftys, and they'd probably egg my 1-ton Chevy 4x4 Diesel as I belch out nice thick black smoke on Ocean Ave.

I like it where I am now, about 15 miles due north (inland) from Malibu, near Moorpark. I'm a 15 minute drive to Port Hueneme, and 25 minutes to Zuma or the Malibu Pier, depending on which canyon route. For a little more than the price of that old, broken down bungalow house in SM, you can have a 20-acre ranch with 5000sf house, pool, spa, your own motocross track , and a 16,000sf steel barn building, and your own private road. If I want the busy city, we also live in North Dallas about half the time.

If you want great value and you want to be near the Santa Monica/Venice area, you can also look in Calabasas, Woodland Hills, or Agoura. Those are all within a 25-minute drive to the Santa Monica pier, and you could get that same house, but 80 years newer, in a good class neighborhood, and without crime and crowds, for about $325,000.

If you really want to be in walking distance to the beach, you can also check Pacific Palisades. That's not much cheaper than SM, but I think it's a lot better class, and isn't part of Soviet Republic of Santa Monica. There are also the South Bay cities, from Redondo to Manhattan Beach. Probably the same prices though. Malibu is cheaper, but the beach is mostly privately owned, and you can't use it if you aren't a beachfront homeowner.

In a higher price range, I'd like this one... It's up on the hill behind us, and has a view of the whole coastline from Ventura Harbor to Malibu. http://www.realtor.com/realestatean...Vista-Anacapa-Rd_Moorpark_CA_93021_1113339650


Charles

 

[bakemeacookie]

With the feds doing everything possible to keep people's house prices artificially high - i'm not surprised.

c

 

[jackangel]

lolz. not looking for a house now, just an apt somewhere on the west side, so i can be a trendy fuck. right now, it's sunny northridge.

 

[MsBeverlyHills]

That's not surprising at all. It's 2 blocks from the beach, and is (or will be) rezoned for multi-unit residential or even maybe mixed use. There's a burned out house on PCH just north of the pier, which has an asking price of $21,000,000. AS-IS!

Personally I wouldn't live in Santa Monica even in a free mansion, as I don't agree with the political atmosphere there. I have a friend who owns a 12-unit apartment building, and she got so angry with the soviet-minded Santa Monica city government, that she kicked everyone out, and it has been sitting vacant for 10 years. Not to mention that the whole Santa Monica Bay coastline is full of greenies and leftys, and they'd probably egg my 1-ton Chevy 4x4 Diesel as I belch out nice thick black smoke on Ocean Ave.

I like it where I am now, about 15 miles due north (inland) from Malibu, near Moorpark. I'm a 15 minute drive to Port Hueneme, and 25 minutes to Zuma or the Malibu Pier, depending on which canyon route. For a little more than the price of that old, broken down bungalow house in SM, you can have a 20-acre ranch with 5000sf house, pool, spa, your own motocross track , and a 16,000sf steel barn building, and your own private road. If I want the busy city, we also live in North Dallas about half the time.

If you want great value and you want to be near the Santa Monica/Venice area, you can also look in Calabasas, Woodland Hills, or Agoura. Those are all within a 25-minute drive to the Santa Monica pier, and you could get that same house, but 80 years newer, in a good class neighborhood, and without crime and crowds, for about $325,000.

If you really want to be in walking distance to the beach, you can also check Pacific Palisades. That's not much cheaper than SM, but I think it's a lot better class, and isn't part of Soviet Republic of Santa Monica. There are also the South Bay cities, from Redondo to Manhattan Beach. Probably the same prices though. Malibu is cheaper, but the beach is mostly privately owned, and you can't use it if you aren't a beachfront homeowner.

In a higher price range, I'd like this one... It's up on the hill behind us, and has a view of the whole coastline from Ventura Harbor to Malibu. 9067 North Vista Anacapa Rd, Moorpark, CA, 93021 - MLS #90016944 - Single Family Home real estate - REALTOR.com®


Charles

thanks! the Moorpark house is not exactly in my price range ($3.8ml )... im more partial to the beach so SM, Palisades & Brentwood (north of Sunset)would work. there are alot of short sale properties- just gotta find them before everyone else

 

[MsBeverlyHills]

lol @ that house ...better off knocking it down and building another

can you believe that house?? what was the owner thinking when the realtor said he was taking pictures for the website??

howabout picking up the trash in the living room & moving the car out of the backyard!! LOL

 

[redshirt27se]

can you believe that house?? what was the owner thinking when the realtor said he was taking pictures for the website??

howabout picking up the trash in the living room & moving the car out of the backyard!! LOL

LOL I was thinking the same thing. Maybe not have laundry strewn across the bed room and random shit everywhere?

 

[kx250rider]

thanks! the Moorpark house is not exactly in my price range ($3.8ml )... im more partial to the beach so SM, Palisades & Brentwood (north of Sunset)would work. there are alot of short sale properties- just gotta find them before everyone else

That's just an example of the radical difference in what you get for the $$$, just a few miles away from each other. For what was about $1.2mil a couple of years ago, $650K today will get you a NICE 4000sf house in Moopark, with perfect streets and public greenbelt landscaping, and a 1/4 acre back yard. And some of the best public schools in the country... Moorpark High won the national academic decathlon 2 years running.


Charles

 

[RottenWillow]

That's just an example of the radical difference in what you get for the $$$, just a few miles away from each other. For what was about $1.2mil a couple of years ago, $650K today will get you a NICE 4000sf house in Moopark, with perfect streets and public greenbelt landscaping, and a 1/4 acre back yard. And some of the best public schools in the country... Moorpark High won the national academic decathlon 2 years running.


Charles

Good point.


My aunt has a Glendale addy, but lives about halfway to Burbank. Her house is 3600sq ft IIRC, has a little guest house, a pool, and a tennis court, and the tax assessment is "only" 2.3m. Two blocks from a LA area beach and it'd be 5x as much probably.

 

[kx250rider]

I shouldn't blabb out my business blunders of the past, but I inherited a tiny little house in Hermosa Beach when I was 18. It was only 500sf, built in 1885, and didn't originally even have a bathroom. (one had been added in the 1920s, though). I sold it for $110K in 1985, and today there is a 4-story house there, squeezed on that tiny little lot. I looked up the last sale on it, and it's worth about $9 million. But I guess I shouldn't feel too bad about it; my great uncle owned a 1000-acre swamp to the south of Santa Monica and to the southeast of the Venice Canals, with poorly-kept rice crops in it. He sold it to a developer for some very small price in the 1930s, and today it's called Marina Del Rey.

Charles

 

[SouthernLord]

lol @ those pics

 

[Smurfy]

that is despicable

 

[Wulfgar]

Its always about location... Im down in SD but prices increase exponentially the closer you get to the coast