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Medians in the 'hoods: Haight-Ashbury
The Haight is a complicated San Francisco 'hood: At one end, it feeds into Market Street and the city's financial heart; at the other, it flows into the Golden Gate Park, an icon of culture and recreation. The Haight also offers history, and today, it's home to some of the most expensive, swanky shops, as well as some of the most down and out people. Yet overall, this neighborhood enjoys high real estate demand- a phenonmenon we have examined before: People want to live on Haight-Ashbury streets even if that means stepping over homeless and violators of the sit-lie ordinance.
We've been studying medians in individual SF neighborhoods, since prices vary as much as people do in this city. We've now covered Pacific Heights, Cole Valley, and the Mission. Today we'll look at Haight-Ashbury.
In the Haight, the median list for homes and condos was $809K in April. The median sold price for the same was $882K. Both numbers represent substantial gains from April of last year.
For that price, a typical current listing looks like this:
35 Divisadero is an Edwardian 2 bed, 1 bath condo with a shared yard and parking (quite valuable in this hard-to-park area) in mid-Haight, or NOPA, if you're going for the trendy, realtor-inspired 'hood appellations. Price tag: $825K.
If money is no object, you might want to buy an entire building, since rentals are very popular here. The most expensive listing in the Haight now is indeed this multi-unit on Broderick for $2,495,000. The most expensive single-family is this 4 bed, 2.5 bath on Masonic, an astonishing $2,395,000 Victorian.
The other end of the spectrum is by no means bargain-land. The least pricey MLS listing now is TIC at 150 Downey St., #1.
Charming though the exteriors and interiors may be, you may be less charmed by the near half-mill you have to spend to buy this 1 bed, 1 bath tenancy in common: $425K, an additional $50K with parking.
Hard to imagine the hippies of the 60's coughing up this kind of dough for homes in Haight-Ashbury. Then again, many of those hippies may very well now be upwardly mobile boomers who can easily afford them.
| June 17 2010 at 09:30 AM
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