Million-Dollar home sq footage: Pittsburgh ranks #8 (Ross Township, Washington: renting, townhouse, neighborhoods)

[Moby Hick]

Originally Posted by RyanR

Here 'ya go.

If I ever get a million dollars, I'm buying a house with a turret.

[selltheburgh]

Only 5 homes sold for over 1 Million in the city in the last 12 months

[selltheburgh]

Originally Posted by Moby Hick

If I ever get a million dollars, I'm buying a house with a turret.

2 just sold in Highland Park for around 400k.

[TheYO]

Here's another one in the city:

218 Tennyson, Schenley Farms, 15213

6 Bedrooms
4 full bathrooms
2 half bathrooms
$1,050,000

[SteelCityRising]

So for $1,000,000 you could have an average city home in San Francisco or a nice home in the suburbs. For $1,000,000 in Pittsburgh you could have a very nice home in the city or a palace in the suburbs.

[trackstar13]

What are the property taxes on a million dollar home in the city of Pittsburgh vs. a million dollar home in San Francisco? I really hate these comparison articles when they leave out major details and make apples to oranges comparisons.

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by RyanR

Here 'ya go.

706 S Aiken Ave, Shadyside, PA 15232 - Home For Sale and Real Estate Listing - realtor.com®

Shadyside (since that's what SCR wanted for a PGH location).

$975K

4BR, 3.5 bath, 2BR apartment on 3rd floor.

Lots of other pics at the link.

Eh I'm not a fan of all of the yellow at all. I'd definitely get rid of that.

[sealie]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

Agreed. With that being said people don't really care about the aesthetics of the exterior of a home anymore, judging by what I see on House Hunters. Many will tour ghastly-looking cookie-cutter suburban neighborhoods and "ooohhh" and "ahhhh" at them.

I wish this was still the gilded age of architecture where people wanted to build homes that they could be proud to show off and that would stand the test of time. Many 1950s-era neighborhoods already look terribly "dated" (i.e. Stanton Heights) and have lost their luster as a result. Will 1990s-era vinyl-clad "Maronda" neighborhoods stand the test of time, or will they, too, look "dated" by the 2040s? Neighborhoods like Shadyside, Mexican War Streets, Squirrel Hill, Polish Hill, and Lawrenceville all largely feature homes from the mid-1800s on up to the early-1900s, and nobody thinks of these places as being "dated" because homes were built beautifully instead of with the attidude of "slap 'em up quick for a quick buck".

Point of order.
The houses that are still standing were built beautifully, for the most part. Once you start home shopping in earnest with a competent realtor I promise you will be rather less effusive in your praise of how they don't make them like they used to.

[doo dah]

You guys sent me down the rabbit hole of very expensive houses! This one is not in the city, but...
333 Castle Dr, Belle Vernon, PA 15012 is For Sale - Zillow

[sealie]

Originally Posted by trackstar13

What are the property taxes on a million dollar home in the city of Pittsburgh vs. a million dollar home in San Francisco? I really hate these comparison articles when they leave out major details and make apples to oranges comparisons.

12 g's for that place on Aiken. No big, right? Anybody can shell out a grand a month like it's nothing? Assessment went from 160k to 459, with taxes going from $5300 to 12100, and people wonder why Pittsburghers don't want to pay higher taxes for better roads.

Property tax in SF is an interesting question. There are million dollar homes assessing at sub 100,000 and thus with $1000 tax bills due to some legal nonsense that Julie can explain better than I can.