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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:21 PM Dec 2015

SF housing prices continue to soar. Tiny apt, 264 square ft, listed for 425k (xpost from GD)

Tiny Telegraph Hill TIC for $425K











We all know space is at a premium in the city, but a new Telegraph Hill listing seems extreme, even for S.F. For $425K, 412 Green St. doesn’t have parking, a separate bedroom or even an oven, but the TIC does fit a remarkable amount into a mere 264 square feet.

The studio unit has an elevated kitchen and dining area with hardwood floors. The kitchen has only a two-burner electric stove and a small bar sink, but a full-size refrigerator and granite counters. There’s also a built-in bar-height countertop with room for two bar stools. The dining area has a sizable closet and there’s more storage under the wood floors that can be accessed through two doors in the bedroom/living area.

This carpeted section of the unit has a wall-mounted flat screen and a glass block window. There are certainly no views in this ground-floor unit, but the hefty $1,600-per-square-foot price tag (plus $227 a month in HOAs) does get you access to the roof-top deck (via elevator) with incredible views of Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Transamerica Building.

http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2015/12/10/tiny-telegraph-hill-tic-for-425k/#photo-718398

h/t Liberal_in_LA

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madaboutharry

(40,216 posts)
1. It looks like the apartment
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:25 PM
Dec 2015

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford had in Barefoot in the Park. They put their bed in the closet. They did, however, have an oven. That fictional apartment was in Greenwich Village and the price tag now would probably be pretty close to this one.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
2. Our liberal cities are being destroyed
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:30 PM
Dec 2015

Once all the different neat people leave, it will change the dynamic of the once liberal city. Happening everywhere. I wonder what the mayors are doing? Or not doing.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
3. In SF's case, not doing
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:33 PM
Dec 2015

"Mr." Ed Lee is pretty much rah-rah pro-gentrification. He gave away the store to Twitter to get them to locate in mid-Market at the edge of the low-income Tenderloin.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
4. Most people living there do not have a car to park.
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:34 PM
Dec 2015

Also I think that appartment looks out over the bay.

Yes it is a lot for a small space but nothing around there is affordable for most of us.

I'll be going there over the holidays. I stay in a motel by the bay and park my car in the garage and walk it ride the cable car around.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
6. a) It's very walkable, has great food, etc. b) Commuting from almost anywhere else is a nightmare.
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:50 PM
Dec 2015

Nictuku

(3,616 posts)
7. I couldn't afford it. The rents in the City are more than my mortgage for a 3 bedroom house in Napa
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 07:30 PM
Dec 2015

I end up doing a 2 hour (each way) commute.

There are no comprobable jobs closer to my house (believe me, I have looked), so I just deal with it.

I'm now too old to want to look for a new job, and doubt I would get the same pay (which I need to pay the mortgage and take care of my mother, etc.).

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
8. The reason the citys became so expensive is because they were so cheap to live in
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 03:59 PM
Dec 2015

at first .Sounds illogical but its true because greed is illogical but has become the American way .

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