1077 Hancock doesn’t have an attractive exterior, but for someone looking to get into a house on the parlor floor, this is awesome, especially considering this has three apartments over an admittedly tight 2000sqft. If you look inside, past the ugly tarpaper “brick” veneer, you can see the house still has a lot of interesting old details, including fireplaces and various moldings. Normally a house in this price range is nearly uninhabitable — this one, while not luxurious, looks like it could be moved right into. The neighborhood is nothing to write home about — it’s row after row of vinyl-sided (or worse) frame houses, but many blocks down this way are lined by large trees that make up for the architectural “problem.” There’s certainly a charm to it.
1077 Hancock Street | $499,000
2000sqft | 20ft-wide | 2-family, 7br/3ba | frame
Halsey J
Jimmy Legs June 25th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
seems odd to me they would list it as 2000sf, 1000 feet per floor and there are clearly 3 habitable floors. 3000sf sounds a lot better. at $167 per sf, i might be able to ignore the many cosmetic flaws of the place. is this a sign of a downturn in the market? i haven’t seen anything like this so cheap in a long time.