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60 Perkins Street #3 in Salem is a great entry-level condo for about $150k. Nice floors, nice architectural detail, nice enough part of town. Not near the train, but not too far from Salem State. It isn’t easy to park near the train in Salem — the lot fills up and stays full. I honestly don’t know what bus service is like, though I do see them when I go into Salem to teach. Honestly, if I were in a position to do it, I would totally buy this place, or one like it, and use it as an office. We’re looking for ways to add a room to our house — even if it means building a new shed and finishing the inside.
404 Jefferson Avenue in Salem isn’t quite lovely, but it is big, with a BIG yard. And it IS close to Salem State. Canal Street is aesthetically challenged, but the rest of it is really nice. No inside pics of this one, which is either on purpose, or not on purpose. Check it again for updates, but you might need to get a dumpster and a crowbar. $191k. Two years ago, the locals in Gloucester were claiming that no house in town had sold for less than $180k. I wonder what the market is like up the coast a bit…?
35 Winthrop Street is in Salem, near the McIntyre District. This is a pretty condo in a great location for $230k.
75 Cabot Street is a townhouse condo in Beverly. About 600 square feet for $129,900. It’s right on the main street, which can be a pain — but it’s also right downtown, near the train, bars, restaurants, and the beach. Townhouses are bound to look a bit dated, but that loft bedroom with the skylight is something else.
The photo at the top is the Salem “Witch House.” The tourist industry in Salem tends to play up the whole Witch City thing, which annoys me a bit — I mean, it’s tragic history, and there’s a statue of Samantha from TV’s Bewitched in the middle of town to commemorate it. (Dude, I totally loved that episode, too. Durwood didn’t know what he had going.) Plus, Salem Village is over in Danvers, and that’s where it all started. Witches were hanged in Gloucester and Essex, too….
But other than that, Salem is a really interesting and historically important town, worth getting to know.
