Lovely and so affordable.

Oh the character.

I thought things were much more expensive than that up north? Very pretty house! Is the location sketchy or something?

Really nice.

Looking at the price of homes in other parts of the country makes me realize how crazy our real estate market is in California.

A beautiful home on a beautiful lot in PA, or a tear-down in coastal So Cal?

Smallest Home in Venice - Asking $1.4M

(2 bdrm, 1 bath)

https://yovenice.com/2022/03/28/smallest-home-in-venice-on-market-for-1-4-million/

There's much to like about that house from my perspective. I could live there.

The location is not at all sketchy but it's a corner lot on one busy street and it's in a kind of neither here-nor-there location with more walkable areas in each direction? It's hard to say.

Not too far from me. Yes, Stenton is a busy street. How lovely.

Nancy, that house looks pretty nice from the inside, and it appears to sit on top of the garage, The back yard is quite large also.

The house where I lived in Venice is estimated to be $1.6 million and is on trendy Abbot Kinney Blvd. It has a similarly large back yard with fruit trees that I planted, and the lot goes all the way back to Marr Street. It is also 900 square feet, which is significantly larger than the house on Windward Ave.

Lot size has a lot to do with the value of houses in Venice. Vacant lots in nearby Westchester start at about $800K, although there are hardly any left. One vacant lot is valued at $2M.

Real estate prices are going up faster now in other parts of the country, and that includes Cathedral City. The annual increase in value in our house in Westchester is about 5% a year, whereas it is 25% in Cathedral City. I'm sure this will slow down, however.

When I skimmed through the photos of the house in Philadelphia, I was shocked at how brown the interior looked. That is my lease favorite color. Otherwise the house looks extremely nice, and the interior colors could be changed. I like the exterior a lot more than the interior - mainly because of the excessive use of brown, which has a nauseating effect on me. I know that most people like it, however, but it depresses me - the way gray depresses other people, while I find gray to be cheerful, but then I'm not used to seeing gray skies.

Beautiful house with lots of character and quality appointments. Too bad about the windows in most rooms on the main floor though. There is ample fenestration but they are all quite high, providing an abundance of light but no views when sitting.

There's a lot to like with only a few "oh no" in it...the stove in the kitchen, the floor tile in the bathrooms...

Keep in mind your move-in-ready isn't someone else's move-in-ready. At $675,000, a build with some older, quality details, in this market, I would be all over that house and spend some money to make it mine.

I would probably want to retile the floors of the bathrooms, but I would hope they could mostly be kept intact. I am sort of intrigued by the cheap modular stall shower standing in the laundry room with the old "Christmas Pattern" (#5352 ) Armstong vinyl floor.

That staircase is really pretty 🙂

I grew up in the burbs. While i dont live near phila anymore, and like most markets things have improved, i would say this area is not the best and in particular the schools are weak. Philly is less costly than other NE markets true, but not this low

You're right, the schools are in the Philly District, which are troubled. The area is also not quite in Chestnut Hill. The area below Cresheim Valley Rd. becomes marginal quickly. If this house were 5 or 6 blocks farther north, it would justify the price or even command more.

What I generally mean when I say "move-in ready" is that it hasn't been f----- up with someone else's idea of updates.

Philadelphia is rife with areas that are just a couple blocks away from better or worse areas, which of course are even closer in proximity in car-dependent areas. There are lots of neighborhoods that I would be fine living in, but I would not want my kids in that school system.

My niece's family lives in Point Breeze, in a neighborhood that 15 years ago I would not have walked in in daylight and maybe 6-7 would not have walked in after dark, and now of course, I do at any time of day -- a part of which is familiarity as opposed to being completely safe, I suppose. But she said something about a house that just came on the market and "that end of the block is a little sketchy". Well "that end of the block" is all of 75 feet away. That's how finely some things are measured here.