To those knowledgeable about CA property values: The Braverman House

[aikoaiko]

I'm a Parenthood fan and I wonder how much the Braverman house would cost.

Its got to be a 4 bedroom stone and wood house on property large enough to also have 2000 sg foot barn. It could be 1.5 - 2.0 acres.

How much would it cost today?
How much would it have cost 40 years ago?

[haele]

1. Weeeellll - depends on where it is actually located.

It's supposed to be in Berkley, but according to the wiki, the location is in Southern California, which has a wide range of prices.
I can venture to guess that unless it's sitting on top of a superfund site, it's at least $300,000 (a 1915 built 4 bdrm, 2 bath at 2060sqft on 3.1 "farm-quality acres" east of El Cajon, CA just sold for $300K - but of course, it's in fire country and may have received some wildfire damage in the last decade the owner might not have been able to completely repair), http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6106-Dehesa-Rd-El-Cajon-CA-92019/79975575_zpid/
- or it could be up to $7 million (La Jolla, Del Mar, Beverly Hills/Brentwood).
40 years ago, it could have been as cheap as $30K. I had a chance to purchase a 5bdrm 2500sqft hillside "ranch home" built in the 1960's on two acres for $80K in the late 1980's, that included an area for a horse or two. This in an area that was undergoing development, so property was going fast and prices were starting to inflate.
When I was stationed up in Vallejo in the late 70's, nice property in the Berkley hills was going for around $150K for an established home on a one-acre lot.

Haele

[mulsh]

2. In Berkeley? Anywhere between $1.5 - 4 million. But you probably won't find a barn.

40 years ago you would have paid anywhere from $250k-1million depending on the neighborhood.

You'd still have a problem finding a place sitting on 1.5-2 acres of land anywhere in the area except the very top of the hills. Most of the older houses either burned down in one of our amusing "firestorms" or the property was subdivided and sold off decades ago.

There are a few houses in Oakland sitting on larger plots with barns and carriage houses intact. They sell for about the same as the above, even in nasty neighborhoods.

[aikoaiko]

3. Yes, this is what I thought.

Thank you.