Hot Real Estate Listings
An article in Dwell this month about Portland's transportation system and generally awesome urban development program has us a little down on highway-centric Texas, so to try to get our mind off the toll-roads, we're thinking about something a little different this week: wide open spaces. Room to make a big mistake. Here are this weeks listings:
 1400 Waldorf Avenue - $85,900. 1,040 square feet. Built in 1966. This looks like a shack in the woods, but it is actually reasonably close to downtown, and even closer to the East Side. Listing doesn't have the lot size, but it appears to be quite large on TCAD. It is probably in rough shape, but if you buy it, then you live in a shack in the woods, so you aren't fancy. WARNING: it backs to a cemetery, so keep a shotgun handy. Listen up, you primitive screwheads. See this? This is my boomstick! |
 7651 Delwau Lane - $350,000. 588 square feet on 9.1 acres. Built in 2004. This is an organic farm along the banks of the Colorado on the other side of the Pleasant Valley Bridge. Way on the other side. It has been on the market for a while - we hope because the owner is holding out for someone who will keep it as a farm and not turn it into suburbs. The Dwell article linked to above discusses the importance of having food production close to urban centers, which is something that Austin is clearly losing as the toll roads bring suburbs to a widening ring around the city center. Waaah. We're shedding a tear for the loss of the rural lifestyle. Waah. OK. We're done now. |
 4800 City park Road - $350,000. No house on 14.84 acres. This is a big lot in a bird preserve southwest of 2222 and 360. Apparently, the buyer can build a house on 3/4 of an acre and has to leave the rest undeveloped (for the birds). We're not convinced that single family residential on giant lots is a reasonable way to preserve any kind of rural system, and even if it is, then 15 acres is probably too low, but whatever. We aren't trying to save Austin this week. If you want to go live with the birds, then go. We don't mind. |
Photos from Justin Cox, J. Rene, Gottesman-Windham, and Snyder & Associates.
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