5924 Shaw Lopez Row – $3.2 mil

[an]

These house has been removed from the market. I just noticed that the lot is only 8k and it’s on a lower part of the slope too. The question is, how much does it really cost to build a 4k sq-ft custom home? If you really want to live in 92121 and have a custom home, wouldn’t it be more economical to buy a house like this one: linky for mid $700k, tear it down, and build a 4k sq-ft house on it? Even at $300/sq-ft, that’s only $1.2M on top of $700k, you have 13k sq-ft vs 8k sq-ft, western view vs southern view, and best of all you’ll have a truly custom home to your 100% liking vs a custom home that someone built for them and not you. Or, you can spend $625/sq-ft to get a $3.2M 4000 sq-ft house on a much better lot. With $625/sq-ft, you can have some VERY exotic high end materials.

[briansd1]

All excellent, very rational points, AN.

[briansd1]

All excellent, very rational points, AN.

[briansd1]

All excellent, very rational points, AN.

[briansd1]

All excellent, very rational points, AN.

[briansd1]

All excellent, very rational points, AN.

[sdduuuude]

This showed up on Redfin. Selling the whole development for $13M !

Includes 23 lots and the 3 houses.

Sadly, it is in the “wrong” school district.

http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Diego/5909-Shaw-Lopez-Row-92121/home/22396647

[jimmyle]

$9 mil is about right, but the seller needs to pay for the demolition and removal of the three houses. Then you can build 26 nice Sorrento Valley houses and sell them at $650k-$700k each.

Who is this ROB QUIKLEY? I wonder what this architech was thinking.

[quote=sdduuuude]This showed up on Redfin. Selling the whole development for $13M !

Includes 23 lots and the 3 houses.

Sadly, it is in the “wrong” school district.

http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Diego/5909-Shaw-Lopez-Row-92121/home/22396647%5B/quote%5D

[svelte]

[quote=jimmyle]
Who is this ROB QUIKLEY? I wonder what this architech was thinking.

[/quote]

This is the kind of design concept that is very popular in architecture schools, I’m not sure why. They had us do designs like this when I went.

What really confuses me is the way the back yard appears to have a high spot in the back corner farthest from the house with the entire yard sloping directly towards the bend in the L shaped house. Seems exactly backwards of what would be optimal.

[profhoff]

http://www.robquigley.com/main.html

[Fearful]

[quote=jimmyle]$9 mil is about right, but the seller needs to pay for the demolition and removal of the three houses. Then you can build 26 nice Sorrento Valley houses and sell them at $650k-$700k each.
[/quote]
Hahahaha … That’s $350K for each plot. How much do $700K Sorrento Valley houses cost to build, when you build 26 at once? Maybe you could build them for $100/sf? $300K build cost each? Take away commissions to buyers, and you are left with almost no profit. How long would a clump of 26 houses sit on the market in Sorrento Valley?

Raw land ain’t worth jack on the open market.

[bake]

[quote=desmond]There’s probably a tunnel all the way to TJ under each house.[/quote]

funny!

better be cash buyers – don’t think the appraisal will come in…

[swelltown]

[quote]Who is this ROB QUIKLEY? I wonder what this architech was thinking.[/quote]

Rob Quigley is also responsible for the “man castle” at Cedar & Columbia.

I wouldn’t let him design my house, but he is well known in the San Diego architecture community for having an unconventional style.

[Hatfield]

Wow, how ugly. Figure’s they’re Quigleys. I know he wins awards all the time, but I freaking hate everything he does. His designs are usually super cluttered with way too many competing textures at work. He either has ADD or feels a compulsive need to throw everything but the kitchen sink into everything he designs. His HQ in Little Italy is a pretty good example of Rob Quigley Awfulness.

This and its neighbors actually show a surprising amount of restraint. Still not my cup of tea, though.

Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest. I feel much better now.

[ucodegen]

Old topic that woke up?

I would be careful on any purchase of these. It looks like the uphill/inward houses are being sold before the downhill/canyon facing houses get built. Looking at the architecture style, it is likely the houses that would be built across the street would have cut into the views of these houses.

Outside is a bit bizzare, the grey one looks more interesting architecturally. The view from the inside is nice though. They look like they have an almost ‘vertical’ floorplan, where each ‘floor’ is a different part of your house. Imagine your present house sectioned so that you have to go up or downstairs for the next room – not just across the hall. Worth over $3Mil, I think not.

NOTE: Looks like the south facing windows are not double-paned either. With all that glass – going to get toasty.

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