Get 4-Bedrooms Duplexed Up For 22% Under the 2007 Price: 4530 N. Magnolia in Uptown
This 4-bedroom duplex up at 4530 N. Magnolia in Uptown recently came on the market.
It is listed 22% under the 2007 purchase price.
At 2500 square feet, it is bigger than many city single family homes.
Two of the bedrooms are on the main floor with 2 on the top floor along with a lofty family room.
The kitchen has maple cabinets, granite counter tops and black appliances.
The living room has 19-foot ceilings.
There are skylights and a large deck off the back of the unit.
The listing says that seller financing is available.
And I’ve been told that the agent is offering a free cruise to the Bahamas to the buyer as well.
Is this a deal for the square footage?
Steve Acoba at Keller Williams Lincoln Park has the listing. See more pictures and the floorplan here.
Unit #3N: 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2500 square feet
- Sold in February 1999 for $259,000
- Sold in March 2001 for $330,000
- Sold in February 2007 for $485,000
- Currently listed for $379,000 (includes the parking)
- Assessments of $193 a month
- Taxes of $6029
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 14×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 16×14 (main floor)
- Bedroom #3: 19×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 9×12 (main floor)
- Family room: 19×13 (second floor)
I find it odd that it was constructed with only one bathroom on the second floor and it is part of the master suite.
Too close to the Wilson/Broadway open air drug market, would be a lot more attractive north of Lawrence.
I think the finishings are dull and the floorplan awkward. Nevertheless, wiht a few tweeks it could be much nicer. For example, the second bedroom on the first floor has a weird layout which would prevent a queen size bed. Since this room makes sense as a guest room, I would move the closet to the other side of the room which would make one straight wall to put a bed against. I would also make an entrance in the second floor bath to the hall. These two bedrooms would make good kids rooms. You could keep the toys up on the family room and make this a kid zone…sparing the downstairs.
So the master suite doesn’t have real windows? What’s labeled as the master BR doesn’t make any sense as it’s the 3rd largest and has less desirable features. It seems that the rear bedroom on the main floor would make a better master suite w/ the walk-in closet, windows one can see out, a deck and private bath — except for the single sink. Overall, the floorplan wasn’t well thought out in terms of bedrooms.
I agree, the bedrooms are poorly thought out. Good price for the space if you can stand this area. Magnolia is a gorgeous street but the shenanigans going on at nearly every corner are ridiculous.
“Too close to the Wilson/Broadway open air drug market, would be a lot more attractive north of Lawrence.”
Just curious. Why don’t they ever clean this up? It’s shocking that this goes on so openly. Wouldn’t this be a slam dunk collar for the cops?
Uptown always seemed to be the place for everyone “priced out of the market” in LP and Lakeview. I guess you can’t exactly get a 2500sf 4bed place for this $ in Lakeview yet, but I wouldn’t feel priced out and forced to move to uptown in this market.
Uptown is the new “socially concious” progressive hood for urbanosnob hipsters and gay people. I wonder how long that will last considering that they probably won’t want to put up with that nonsense for too long considering nothing has changed and it seems as though not much will change in the near future.
And whats up with the population boom of bums lately? Its like they are multiplying theres so many of them around lately, are the cops just going to let losers sleep on the sidewalk in the loop during business hours, or have huge packs of them congregate at every restaurant’s dumpsters without recourse? I mean I get that the cops probably have more important things to do in the summer, but its really out of control
“Uptown is the new “socially concious” progressive hood for urbanosnob hipsters and gay people.”
Uptown has had lots of gay people for as long as I have been here, so i’m not seeing anything new there but I’m not seeing the influx of urbanosnob hipsters, thank god.
sonies the cops lassiez fair attitude towards the bums likely has something to do with their disaffection towards city hall. you see they let the bums go free range to antognize the businesspeople to the point they get angry with the city too & start demanding more resources. of course those new “resources” are pay raises, padded pensions and once again enforcement of loitering & vagrancy laws.
Sonies, your last post made me laugh.
you’d laugh at all my posts if you knew whats good for you
Gays are NOT moving to Uptown, they jumped to Andersonville and Edgewater. If it were not for us, there wouldn’t be most of the GZ for the scardy cat uppity urban people.
Uptown has improved significantly over the last few years. Of course parts are sketchy, but much better than the past.
“If it were not for us, there wouldn’t be most of the GZ for the scardy cat uppity urban people.”
Can’t disagree with this
I would prefer to live around gays because they are less likely to have lots of kids and when they do have kids, it’s because they put a lot of effort into getting the kids and therefore usually love their kids.
This place is on floors 3 & 4, no? Lots of stairs. I see some kids’ toys in the bedroom on floor 3. But floor 4 has the MB and the guitar jam room. So they put the kid on a different floor? Probably a seller sick of the stairs this place entails.
Personally I like the set up. The living/dining room is quite large and two of the bedrooms look like a great size with good light. A few years ago I looked at a very similar duplex up on Reta for $669k!
“Sonies on August 22nd, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Uptown is the new “socially concious” progressive hood for urbanosnob hipsters and gay people.”
Nuh uh. That’s Edgewater.
Most everyone largely admits Uptown is awful.
i my time i have only seen uptown get worse, cant see how a 10 year timeline will make it better. but hey big ten bright eyed nesters will buy anything i have found
UPTOWN ROCKS! You should check out Rokitos, the Mexican place umder the Wilson El Stop. Food is great and it is a cool little place.
“Under” the Wilson El Stop.
Uptown is the ubersuck.
“Uptown is the ubersuck”
Never had a problem here. Most of the negative news was political.