Sweet Digs: Cap Hill Million Dollar Listing
Recent posts on Sweet Digs Seattle:
South Seattle: I Found a Portal to Another Dimension
South Seattle: Best Sledding Hill Ever
Open house this weekend:
Saturday, March 31 & Sunday, April 1
12pm-7pm
900 233rd Ave NE #949
Sammamish, WA 98074
There are a number of million dollar homes on Capitol Hill, mostly near Volunteer Park in an area known as “Millionaire’s Row”. The westward views from Cap Hill are majestic with Downtown, the Sound, Olympics, and our beloved Space Needle. Today’s most clicked property is priced just over a million and a few things about this listing are perplexing:
- The listing remarks mention a “terrarium/aquarium”, this is intriqueing indeed. Whydon’t they have any pictures of this unique feature?
- The price per square foot is unusually low for a Cap Hill home of this size and level of updates/finishes. The proximity to I-5 and resulting traffic noise is likely the cause.
- Is this house situated in a ravine? The image of the front makes it seem as though you would need climbing gear to get to it.
- For the exhibitionist, a bathtub surrounded by clear glass windows is a bonus feature.
- For a million dollar property, I expect to see better photography in the listing photos. The house looks really nice, the images really don’t do it justice.
STATS:
Price: $1,200,000
Location: 907 E Howe St Seattle, WA 98102
Last sale price: $720,000 (2005)
MLS: 26187351
Eric said:
Hey Marie,
Thanks for the post. I also noticed on ForeclosurePoint that this house is facing foreclosure. The auction date is 6/15/2007 with an estimated opening bid of $1,145,889. Looks like they just escaped the hangman though as the house is already subject to inspection.
March 30, 2007 3:20 PM
Marie Hagman said:
I’ve seen quite a number homes go STI then back to Active lately. It will be interesting to see if this deal goes through in the nick of time. I’ll keep my eye on it.
April 2, 2007 1:33 PM
Suzy said:
The house is on a hill and has standing water underneath most of it–due to water runoff—there is water running between it and the house next to it–the house next to it slipped on it’s foundations and had to be redone—the inspection resulted in it not being sold
November 10, 2007 12:57 AM