Buehler House for sale

SpringGreen · Post by **SpringGreen** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:19 am

The price of $5 million actually sounds reasonable for the area - 3 bed/3 bath, about 45 minutes from San Francisco, on 2.3 acres and has its own tea house. Plus, it's a 1949 Usonian, and I like the Usonians from Jacobs I to the early/mid-50s the best.

Of course, I'm not buying but I have a relative about 1/2 hour away from there that I'll be seeing at Christmas, and I wouldn't mind persuading her to take us on an afternoon drive to see it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/trulia/2011 ... -bay-area/

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:38 am

Even for Wright that price is sky-high. Leaving out the fact that it's a Wright design and reading the specs alone, it's more than double what one would expect for the area. Reasonable ? No. But the house and location are quite desirable . . .

SDR

KevinW · Post by **KevinW** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:51 am

Something is priced too high, only when no one will purchase it. It is a great area, a stunning site, and a beautiful house, although not liking what they did with Maynards shop...but I guess poeple with that kind of coin, expect a "media room". While it is a 1940's usonian, much of it is a 1990's usonian, because of how much that was rebuilt after the fire, thus the beautiful condition.

SpringGreen · Post by **SpringGreen** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:01 am

My statements are based on my memories of my sister buying a 1,200 sq. ft. house w/a small backyard, outside of San Francisco, for $600,000 and feeling like she got a good deal. She turned her friends onto the house next door (same size, same price) and she said that the owners wept when they saw it, b/c they were finding rundown houses (the term she used was "crack house - literally an old crack house") for $400,000 at the time.

Even in these times, she likes to ask me how much I paid for my house b/c she finds "$122k" for 1,300 sq. feet and 2.5 acres as cute as a button.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:31 pm

I'll save next Sunday's newspaper real estate section, and see what other properties are offered in Orinda. I'm sure the Buehler house will sell -- but, at least in the present market, I doubt it will go for 5 M. But maybe I'm wrong. It is Wright, after all.

Yes, the price of an average small house is shocking. I'm not sure you can scale up that price on a per-foot basis. It's true that this house has had improvements and additions . . .

SDR

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:22 pm

Speaking of spendy properties, I notice that Lovness is no longer listed with FLWBC. Did it sell? At $3.75M, it would be in a category similar to the $5M Buehler property, considering the gulf between Stillwater, MN and the Bay Area.

Reidy · Post by **Reidy** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:53 pm

A Zillow search finds, at the moment, 135 properties for sale in Orinda, 4 of them over $4 million:

http://www.zillow.com/homes/orinda-ca_r ... _zm/0_mmm/

Sequoia · Post by **Sequoia** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:20 am

RG the Loveness estate has been lowered to 1.944 mil

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:33 am

(from the Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog):

USONIAN HOME BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ON MARKET FOR $4.9 MILLION

David

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 6:13 pm

Frank Lloyd Wright The Buehler House - [9:57]

David

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:27 pm

In 2011 the price ($5M) may have been "sky high"; now, not so much . . .

SDR

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Fri May 01, 2015 10:04 am

Imagine that property in Bel Air. The price would be in the $20M range.

SREcklund · Post by **SREcklund** » Mon May 04, 2015 8:38 am

The house will be open for tours this week ... for a price ...

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