How Hot Is Southport? This 3-Bedroom Condo Is Listed At $989,000: 3934 N. Janssen
This top floor 3-bedroom unit at 3934 N. Janssen in the Southport neighborhood of Lakeview just came on the market.
The building was built in 2002.
The building next to it that you can see in the picture above looks like townhouses.
It has 2500 square feet on one level which includes a family room.
The kitchen has cherry cabinets, stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops.
The unit also has a 1500 square foot roof deck with a canopy. The building also has a common area basketball court.
It has central air, washer/dryer in the unit and one car garage parking.
Listed at $989,000, or $396 a square foot, does the price reflect the Southport (and Blaine school) premium?
Karina Caulfield at Conlon has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #4: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2500 square feet
- Sold in December 2002 for $630,000
- Currently listed at $989,000 (parking included)
- Assessments of $283 a month
- Taxes of $11,053
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 16×12
- Bedroom #2: 12×12
- Bedroom #3: 12×12
- Family room: 21×19
Cement block sides, dated interior: I would say about 600K
A typo seems more likely to me than anything else.
“A typo seems more likely to me than anything else.”
JJJ: That’s what I thought too. Maybe $689,000 instead of $989,000???
But it’s been on the MLS for several days already. Don’t you think the owner and/or the agent would have looked at the listing after posting it? Usually owners want to look at it once it goes on line to see what it “looks like” on all the sites. Don’t you think they would have noticed if it was a price typo?
There’s nothing special about this place except the price. I wonder how much the town homes next door sell for…. I would much rather live in one of those than this.
Incompetence in pricing or incompetence in data entry, verification and awareness of the listing, pick one.
Basketball court is a tremendous waste of space. Decorations of sports logos in the rooftop deck is a major turnoff for family buyers. At first I thought the entire building, not just one unit, was for sale for a million bucks.
The price is laughable. And so is that stupid basketball court.
somebody thought that basketball court was a good idea. i think science should study that person.
note to real estate agent: something that idiotic is not an item you highlight.
$400 a sqft? no
$300 a sqft? eh maybe a tiny bit high so sure, so it could be a typo
275 a sqft sounds about right for the finishes and location?
This has got to be a typo! Geez, this is truly laughable at that price.
Personally i would love the basketball court, it’s great for kids and my DH would dig it too, but I gotta imagine that the first floor tenants are not too excited about it most of the time.
For a much less price I would rather take that bachelor pad on Southport and Addison.
“Usually owners want to look at it once it goes on line to see what it “looks like” on all the sites.”
Wait, there’s graffiti in the listing pix of this one, too?
These sellers should be greatful that they’ll most likely sell for more or the same as the 2002 price.
“It has 2500 square feet on one level which includes a family room”
Linked listing text sez 2200 (yes, summary sez 2500). So, $449 psf.
“275 a sqft sounds about right for the finishes and location?”
Gotta add something for the 1500 sf roof deck. The $689 “typo price” would seem right, if $275 psf is right (maybe, maybe not).
“Personally i would love the basketball court, it’s great for kids and my DH would dig it too, but I gotta imagine that the first floor tenants are not too excited about it most of the time.”
Yeah, I can’t imagine hearing some kid bouncing a ball back there. It’ll probably be loud enough to affect 3-4 houses around it.
– split face cinder block side, not brick. hello leaks.
– “Chef’s kitchen with commercial appliances” — Either the agent or the seller are delusional on that.
-The basketball court is a HUGE turnoff. And it appears to be on the ground level, which is kind of sad if you were one of those units right there. If I were at home the last thing I need to hear is my neighbor’s kid bouncing a basketball outside my window all day. It’s one of the most annoying sounds I can imagine in such a tight space where it would echo.
-The roof deck is nothing too special… not a single plant anywhere is odd. You don’t have to have a green thumb to make it look not like a frat house.
That’s a lot of towels over the bath tub. I appreciate that they didn’t put the TV over the fire place, but also think it’s annoying where it is particularly overlapping two windows (and bad on the eyes too).
Not a bad looking unit considering the era it was constructed, but I don’t like my backyard being taken up by a basektball court I’ll never use, and if you have a rooftop deck, why have a fence so high you can’t see over it? I always thought rooftop decks were best for their views.
I think the 2002 price is more realistic.
Town home next door sold for 508k in June. I was outbid by $500.
Just because there is a basketball court painted in the backyard doesn’t mean it can’t be used for other purposes. If they were to remove the hoop and paint the floor white would you be more inclined to buy this place? What’s to prevent someone putting a table and chairs back there and ignoring the basketball part.
If the point was to pave the back area so as not to have plant maintenance, I think the basketball hoop is a creative use of space. Again, no one is forcing anyone to play basketball. If none the current building owners want to use the space for that, they could easily ignore the hoop and use it as a normal patio. For someone who would be interested it seems like a nice building amenity. To me it seems a nice way to get an additional use out of an otherwise single purpose space.
that’s a hoop Groove could dunk on
I keep checking the listing page assuming they’ll fix that typo. Nothing yet.
What’s the lot size, 2500sft on one level is pretty nice.
Fred, the danger is that others will use the basketball court. It would be very irritating to hear basketball sounds all the time. Also, just because none of the current neighbors use it, what’s to stop someone with three teenage boys moving in and making full use of that court?
All basketball courts should be turned into giant tortoise sanctuaries.
Jenny – If that were to become a problem, I don’t see why the association couldn’t pass usage limits. You could limit use to say 8a-8p, or even time use limits to say no more than 2 hours at a time with minimum 1 hour in between sessions. I don’t really see it getting used “all the time.” In reality it is likely to get used at most a few hours a day. To me this seems no different than a scenario that plays out on suburban driveways across the country every day of the week… Would you rather hear these teenage boys above you playing guitar hero at full volume or out back getting some exercise?
“dated interior”
It pretty much has classic finishes that don’t really get dated. It’s not like there’s those retard “bowl sinks” in the bathrooms, or phallic looking one-handled grohe bath faucets, rectangular (instead of square) tiles, etc. It has to be a typo, nobody would pay over $900K for this.
They should change it to a “play lot” for old people: http://www.ageuk.org.uk/health-wellbeing/keeping-fit/keeping-fit-at-a-senior-playground/
This way, older people, can get their exercise quietly.
I tried one of these in Spain. It was amusing.
To young homebuyers, anything over 5 years old is “dated”. One of the bad things of a buyers market, extreme pickiness rules.
“What’s to prevent someone putting a table and chairs back there and ignoring the basketball part.
The fact that it’s a condo, not a single family home? What if the garden or 1st floor unit was the advocate behind this idea? And it’s not about being forced into playing basketball, it’s about being forced to live overlooking it and having to HEAR someone else play it. Even an hour of hearing this mid-day would be enough to make me not want to live in such close quarters if I were at home for that hour and had the windows open. Usage limits? It’s a 4 unit building, who will enforce? The person who is making the violation?
” tomm (August 20, 2012, 2:45 pm)
To young homebuyers, anything over 5 years old is “dated”. One of the bad things of a buyers market, extreme pickiness rules.”
who wants to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in this case, nearly a million dollars, for a house with old looking fixtures, appliances and the like? They’re not very attractive to begin with and with age they look old, what else is there to say? It’s not so much pickiness as ugliness.
Well, hell. I live not too far from here. I’m putting MY 3-bed on the market for $989K! I think I deserve to get about 3 times what I paid for it.
Sportcourts are cool and serve multi purposes for most buyers in the burbs. They could act as a great party deck for entertaining guests. The rooftop walls seem odd but do add great privacy to the space. Perhaps the owners like to play a bit of outdoor “boom boom pow” on the roof without seeing the neighbors!
“It has to be a typo, nobody would pay over $900K for this.”
Someone let me know if they see a price change. Thanks!
Agreed that is a stupid price, but I think it may be the agent’s own unit which might explain the laughable price.
Split face. Hell no
Overpriced but then again the place at Addison/Sthport is under contract at $879k
“dated interior”: i.e. building boom trendy/ cheap finishes that made money for the developer and come in well under the current price per square foot. I see cheap doors, cement block, pre-finished wood floors that wear poorly, hardware/cabinets that scream their age…
Marked down 100K after 8 days, LOL.
“The Cribchatter Effect”
Think of it this way: Just 16 more days until they get a showing!
“Marked down 100K after 8 days, LOL.”
Jeebus, so it wasn’t a typo.