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1064 Evelyn Ave

Built 1939·Albany, CA 94706

Sold for $480,000 in August 2011 against a $499,000 ask — $19,000 under, after 76 days on market — and has stayed off market in the fifteen years since. Both sales with surviving MLS copy lean on the builder: 'sweet Albany MacGregor split level' in 1997, 'charming 1930's home' with original built-ins and tile fireplace in 2011. The second MacGregor on Evelyn Ave in this collection, three blocks from 1107.

At a glance

Beds

Baths

Square feet

956 sq ft

Lot size

2,500 sq ft

Year built

1939

Stories

1.5

Garage

Attached 1-car

County

Alameda County

APN

65-2654-24

Zoning

R-1

MLS #

40527530

Neighborhood

Dartmouth

Annual tax

$11,041

Assessed value

$614,927

Listings elsewhere

Price history

Date	Event	Price	Source
Aug 18, 2011	Sold	$480,000	Public record
Jul 14, 2011	Pending	—	EBRDMLS
Jun 3, 2011	Listed	$499,000	EBRDMLS
Jun 20, 1997	Sold	$230,000	Public record
May 14, 1997	Listed	$228,500	EBRDMLS
Apr 6, 1990	Sold	$233,000	Public record
Jun 4, 1987	Sold	$173,000	Public record

Construction and systems

Levels

Split level — 1 bedroom upstairs; 1 bedroom, bath and laundry at street level

Rooms

Foundation

Crawl space

Exterior

Stucco

Roof

Composition shingles

Heating

Forced air, 1 zone

Cooling

None

Flooring

Hardwood throughout

Fireplace

Living room, wood-burning with gas starter

Interior features

Formal dining room, storage, utility room

Kitchen

Eat-in kitchen, laminate counters, free-standing range/oven, refrigerator, garbage disposal

Appliances

Refrigerator, disposal, washer, dryer, gas water heater

Laundry

In laundry room

Lot

Level, 0.06 acres

Yard

Back yard, garden, patio, fenced

Utilities

Public water, public sewer

Permits

2 recorded, both pulled July 21, 2011 (building + plumbing & gas, finaled)

House notes

The 1997 MLS listing opens "SWEET ALBANY MACGEGOR [sic] SPLIT LEVEL HOME IN MOVE-IN CONDITION" — the builder named, and misspelled, in the listing copy itself
Storybook front: half-timbered Tudor gable over the under-house garage, with an iron balconet at the upper bedroom window
The 2011 listing called out original built-ins and an original tile fireplace — a wood-burner with a gas starter in the living room
Sold in June 1997 for $230,000, three thousand dollars less than the $233,000 it fetched in April 1990 — seven years of the early-90s East Bay dip
The county's roll shows that dip too: the assessment sat flat at $212,000 from 1992 through 1997, a Prop 8 decline-in-value reduction below the 1990 purchase price
Two permits — building, and plumbing & gas — were pulled July 21, 2011, mid-escrow between the pending date and the August close, and both were finaled
The August 2011 sale reset the Prop 13 basis from $292,382 to $480,000, and the tax bill jumped 47% the following year
MLS directions read simply "Marin To Evelyn" — the house sits a block off Marin Ave in the Dartmouth tract, blocks from Solano Ave and BART per the 2011 listing