This 3-Bedroom Is Larger Than Most Single Family Homes: 1429 W. Catalpa in Andersonville
This top floor 3-bedroom unit at 1429 W. Catalpa in Andersonville has more square footage than most single family homes at the same price in the neighborhood.
At 3000 square feet, the listing says it is a combined unit. There are just 5 units in the vintage 1913 era building.
It has a master suite complete with a fireplace and a sunroom.
The unit has skylights, a private rooftop deck, central air and washer/dryer in the unit.
It also has some of the amenities of a single family home, actually, including a 2-car garage.
The kitchen appears to have stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops.
On the market for 13 months, it has been reduced only $10,000 in that time.
Is Andersonville not quite so “hot” over the $500,000 price level?
Brad Lippitz at Prudential Rubloff has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #3W: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 3000 square feet, 2 car garage parking
- Sold in April 1995 for $258,000
- Originally listed in October 2009 for $559,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $549,000
- Assessments of $412 a month (includes heat and gas)
- Taxes of $6730
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 19×12
- Bedroom #2: 12×12
- Bedroom #3: 14×13
Kitchen and bathrooms need work.
People want new in this price range
What’s up with that island? It’s tiny.
“What’s up with that island? It’s tiny.”
Sublimely ridiculous.
People want new, but you damn sure aren’t going to get 3000 sqft duplex up and a private roof deck for that price. This is one of those where it might make sense to buy and renovate yourself.
The place is a a little dated, but a ton of space on a great street in Andersonville. There aren’t many units like this available in that area. Most are 2/1s and 2/2s (vintage) or duplex downs.
A lot of the 2/2s go for upper 300s to low 4s in this area. Most are barely 1400 square feet.
The lack of jumbo financing is probably what is preventing this from selling. Fairly large down stroke for a typical condo buyer to get to a conforming loan. A lot of the jumbo lenders want 25% down or more on condos.
I’m sorry. This place has so much potential, and yet it is just weird. I realize that decor (wallpaper, fireplace fixtures, wood staining, stair rails, carpet) can be redone, but the whole late 80s country-kitchen vibe kills the mood for me — at least at a half-millie-plus. Is that a walk-thru shower? And what’s on the other side of it?
I agree with Russ, and at a lowest ask with our own reno-$ and plans, we might pop the question.
Those built-ins in the (giant) living room are pretty awesome.
I am confused about the master bathroom. It looks like the shower door opens into the closet or is that the entrance to the bathroom?
“I am confused about the master bathroom. It looks like the shower door opens into the closet or is that the entrance to the bathroom?”
Yes? Looks like they have two shower doors to two parts of the bathroom and the shower opens both to the bathroom and the bedroom. That would be among the things to fix.
Why would you ever have a shower opening directly into the bedroom? (and have a glass door?). If the neighbors happened to be looking in, they might call the police!
i like it. beats the hell out of a lot of other places i’ve seen for that list price. i don’t know Andersonville pricing but it seems like the list is in the ballpark. especially with the private deck and 2 car garage.
(though i agree the kitchen island is stupid)
with the list price barely budging in over 12 months it seems like you’ve got a stubborn seller to blame on this one.
At first I thought maybe Mennonites lived here: the decorating is odd. But the shower deal is really weird. If you look to the left, there appears to be another 3/4 glass door into the bathroom and if you look to the right, the wall facing the closet double doors looks like it has yet another shower door in it. Also – bidet.
haha that island in the kitchen is hilarious
so are the shower doors for entry to the master bath
“with the list price barely budging in over 12 months it seems like you’ve got a stubborn seller to blame on this one.”
stubborn or stuck? probably cannot afford to bring any money to the table
“stubborn or stuck? probably cannot afford to bring any money to the table”
Unless there are two pins, the one mortgage has a face amount of well under $200k.
Also: Taxes now $8200+.
you get a good sized place here but for 600k couldnt you get a SFH on the other side of ashland?
The kitchen island is a hoot, and a clue. This unit appears to be a “duplex-up” into a then newly constructed fourth floor, which would explain the large floor area. Prior to downzoning, parts of Edgewater Glen and probably Andersonville had residential multi-family zoning which would allow an additional floor to be added up on top of three-flats. We briefly considered doing so, but realized that resale would be difficult. Perhaps a contractor or architect bought this 6-flat building as an owner-occupant, did renovation, and then later converted building into condos.
It’s a highly unusual condo configuration, with no comps.
I think the two-door shower compartment opens into the master bathroom and master dressingroom, and if so, it’s a nice feature as long as wood floor doesn’t get wet.
Architect – usually your comments are spot-on, but I am not sure what you are referring to in this case. The stairway window in the second photograph in the listing is clearly the topmost center window on the top floor of the front facade. The arched top and muntin patterns match. This unit appears to be a combination of what were formerly two apartments on the top floor of the building. This would explain the square footage. The large living room in photo 3 occupies the former living room space of one apartment, while the master bedroom in photo 7 occupies the other former living room. The french doors in the master bedroom photo leads to a sun porch on the front of the building, the space apparently occupied by a TV area in photo 3.
With that much space to work with, though, I have no explanation for the apparent akward bathroom layout.
I’m pretty sure I went to an open house of a second floor apartment and the realtor told me the top two apartments were combined ( possibly by original developer) The second floor renovation was very so-so. I’d prefer straight-up vintage or a thoughtful newer renovation.
That “decadent” shower sounds like yet another example of the “creative” approach to bathrooms that has had limited success taking hold in Middle America over the past couple decades. Other bizarre innovations include bathtubs in the bedroom (insert Cialis joke here), and glass doors or “open entryways from master bed to master bath. Whenever I’ve showed such innovations to buyer clients, the inevitable post-showing comment would be “We’d have to fix that bathroom!”
This is begging to be bought, split into two units and renovated. I’m sure the combined floor plan is a disaster – it’s better off with the original layouts, maybe with some modest tweaks. But that would require tricky financing.
It’s a white elephant that will sell at a hugely discounted price per square foot.
Yes, my mistake. I saw that window too. But the issue about once generous zoning allowance is still true.