Another Price Reduction For This 4-Bedroom Custom Old Norwood Park House: 5692 N. New Hampshire
We’ve been chattering about this 4-bedroom single family home at 5692 N. New Hampshire in Old Norwood Park for several years now.
See our February 2013 chatter here.
It is still on the market and has been reduced another $86,000 to $889,000.
Another million dollar listing just down the street at 5719 N. New Hampshire that we previously chattered about in January 2013 was listed at $999,000.
For those who wonder what price points can be supported in Old Norwood Circle, it sold on June 28, 2013 for $785,000.
See our chatter on that house here.
If you recall, these houses are located on the highly coveted circle.
Built in 2007, the house has 12-foot ceilings and 5 fireplaces.
There are Brazilian walnut wood floors throughout as well as a 12 seat home theater complete with leather reclining seats.
The kitchen has unique stone work, custom cabinets and onyx counter tops.
Built on an oversized 50×200 lot, it has a rare city 4-car garage with a 600 square foot attic.
Does the sale of 5719 N. New Hampshire now provide a road map as to the sales price of this property?
Lisa Sanders at Baird & Warner now has the listing. See the pictures here.
5692 N. New Hampshire: 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, 4 car garage, 4904 square feet
- Sold in September 1994 for $240,000
- New construction in 2007
- Originally listed in February 2009 for $1.895 million
- Reduced
- Was listed in October 2010 at $1,399,900
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $1.299 million
- Withdrawn in November 2012
- Re-listed in February 2013 for $975,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $889,000
- Taxes are now $7602 (they were $6323 in February 2013 and they were $5540 in 2011)
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 24×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 14×14 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 14×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 14×13 (second floor)
- Maid room: 29×22 (third floor)
- Theater room: 22×15 (basement)
- Recreation room: 24×20 (basement)
This house screams 2007. Too bad 2007 construction didn’t look as good as 1929. Basically the same thing.
Its actually not bad in person. Really can’t understand why this hasn’t gone.
Lisa Sanders is also one of the Top agents in Norwood.
Big house lots of space, maybe it was built on an indian burial ground?
” these houses are located on the highly coveted circle”
Do people really consider New Hampshire “on the circle”? Do people who live on E/W Circle Ave consider New Hampshire as ‘covetable’?
also: $785k seems like a good price for that other one.
and: “Lisa Sanders is also one of the Top agents in Norwood”–did she (and the rest of the ‘top agents’) ‘blacklist’ so many potential buyers for low-ball offers that there’s no one left allowed to buy?
Does anyone know if $14k is a reasonable price for conversion to overhead sewers if there is only a single stack?
“Does anyone know if $14k is a reasonable price for conversion to overhead sewers if there is only a single stack?”
What’s the scope? As before, I have thoughts to share, but probably best off-line– hit the anon_tfo at hotmail box if you dare. Generally, depending on what all they are doing, that’s either pretty good or so cheap as to make me a little nervous. Pulling permits?
Why do I have to e-mail you at the hotmail? Long story short, they’re diverting (and installing new piping) from the stack in the basement – overhead to so speak – to the outside, and digging up the front yard to connect the new pipe to the sewer, and cutting off the old one. They’re putting a pit w/ejector on the inside where the stack drains into. They’re also diverting the outside drain to a separate sump pump inside, only about 8 feet. we were going to get a lift station but the inspector but the village wants only gravity based systems, and I’ve never nothing but bad things about the check valves with catch basins.
“Why do I have to e-mail you at the hotmail?”
OMG HD. You are so skittish. Anon is amazing. You should take him up on his offer.
He can look at MLS photos and zero in on every single issue in a home without even seeing it in person.
It’s kind of scary actually.
He has been extremely helpful to me.
He pointed out some issues on a home I had in contract back in January, and sure enough it failed inspection for the reasons he listed.
By the way, thank you for sharing your plumbing issues.
I’m having plumbing adventures myself and it’s helpful to compare notes.
homedelete (July 15, 2013, 2:11 pm)
Why do I have to e-mail you at the hotmail? Long story short, they’re diverting (and installing new piping) from the stack in the basement – overhead to so speak – to the outside, and digging up the front yard to connect the new pipe to the sewer, and cutting off the old one. They’re putting a pit w/ejector on the inside where the stack drains into. They’re also diverting the outside drain to a separate sump pump inside, only about 8 feet. we were going to get a lift station but the inspector but the village wants only gravity based systems, and I’ve never nothing but bad things about the check valves with catch basins.
Im not a fan of those catch basins with check valves and pumps seems like too much hardware that could fail. I would do Overhead over that any day of the week.
“Long story short”
Long answer short: Sounds too cheap to me.
“pumps seems like too much hardware that could fail. I would do Overhead over that ”
How do you do overhead without pumps? Even if you eliminate sub-grade uses (bath, laundry).
Wait:
“They’re putting a pit w/ejector on the inside where the stack drains into.”
can’t be correct–stack going into ejector pit? Something else, right?
anon(tfo), this plumbing stuff confuses me, i’m still figuring it out. I know that the way my plumbing is doesn’t make it too complex, it’s just that they have to remove my front stoop and some sidewalk to make the new connection. I was quoted $8-$10k for the check valve system, $10-$12 for the tremco lift station system, and $14-$16 for the overhead system. I konw that overheads are the most costly, but apparently my job isn’t too crazy of a retrofit, at least that’s what the plumbers have been saying. Just a little difficult in some places because of low basement ceilings.
Also they want to connect the new overhead sewer outside the house rather than inside the house so they don’t have to tear up the basement, but instead it tears up my front yard, which apparently keeps the cost down, but now I have to replace my front stoop…..and I have to pay for remdiation for 100 sq ft of abestos tiles in the basement, because they need to dig it up to reroute the outside drain…PITA. and my basement is all cut up. I just lost 1/3rd of the useable space in my house and it’s going to be this way for the foreseeable future. Oh and there is ONE measly crack in the foundation that I’ll need to have fixed, so as long as theres a hole in frotn fo my house. may as well get that fixed. all in all its going to cost more than $14k
That’s what you get for buying in Niles
“That’s what you get for buying in Niles”
Lisle, not nile.
“I konw that overheads are the most costly, but apparently my job isn’t too crazy of a retrofit, at least that’s what the plumbers have been saying.”
Oh. I’m sure I was at the far otherside of costs, and had a bunch of other stuff done, too, and it was all practically artisanal, and dealing with a much older house, but (even w/o going back and breaking out just the overhead v. the other stuff) I’d be thrilled it it had been ‘only’ $14k, just for the plumbing portion (floor was out already, so I don’t count the concrete).
One other thing to make sure they do–fill in (or at least cap off) the old sewer pipe under your house–you don’t want to provide a flume for groundwater possibly eroding under your foundation.
they said they were going to cap it too, on both ends inside and outside.
the ‘just $14k’ is just the plumbing end, because i’ll have additional costs – my awesome prairie like garden landscaping is all messed up, I have to redo my front stoop (Which needed replacement anyway), and the cost of the abestos tile removal if the ins. co. doesn’t cover it. All in it’s going to be $20k or so I figure. Plus whatever other stuff comes to. It’s not easy to swallow which is why I suppose everyone around here – even though it’s an upper middle class area – installs catchbasins and check valves in the front yard. overhead incl. the extra costs (landscaping, cement, etc) is over twice the price.
The original list price of this home to now is definitely a lesson for the seller! This home though is infinitely more useful and tasteful than 5719. While it may still be gaudy, it is far less so and with the extra bedrooms it would actually fit a family. Therefore, if 5719 went for $785k, this doesn’t seem like a bad asking price at all. Perhaps this goes in the mid-$800’s?
Curious on what you all think the value of this home relates to other properties on the circle, particularly 5802 N West Circle. Obviously not near the home that New Hampshire is, but the price is significantly less. Does that house have the potential to increase its value?
Sold on 11/1/2013 for 820K.
$820 is a good deal if you want live this far west.
You people that write on these norwood park homes are NUTS!!!!!!
Anon, milkster
especially homedelete.
Get a life assholes
“You people that write on these norwood park homes are NUTS!!!!!!”
Sales must be REALLY slow in Norwood Park right now.