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2511 Roosevelt Ave

Built 1942·Richmond, CA 94804

Last sold for $250,000 in September 2002, twelve months after selling for $190,000, and has not been listed since. Both sales closed exactly $50 above the asking price. The two MLS listings on file are among the most explicit in this collection about who built the house, calling it a 'MacGregor' and a 'Mini-MacGregor' in successive years, and their photos bracket the repainting that happened in between. The assessment carries the crash: the county cut it 61% in a single year, from $275,656 in 2008 to $107,000 in 2009, then took nine years to restore it.

At a glance

Beds

Baths

Square feet

841 sq ft

Lot size

2,500 sq ft

Year built

1942

Stories

Garage

Attached 1-car

County

Contra Costa County

APN

515-040-014

Zoning

RM2

MLS #

22024341

Neighborhood

North and East

Annual tax

$6,633

Assessed value

$369,299

Listings elsewhere

Redfin

Zillow

Realtor.com

Price history

Date	Event	Price	Source
Sep 27, 2002	Sold	$250,000	Public record
Aug 13, 2002	Delisted	—	bridgeMLS
Aug 5, 2002	Listed	$249,950	bridgeMLS
Sep 6, 2001	Sold	$190,000	Public record
Jul 8, 2001	Delisted	—	bridgeMLS
Jun 25, 2001	Listed	$189,950	bridgeMLS
Jul 28, 1977	Sold	$38,000	Public record

Construction and systems

Rooms

Foundation

Crawl space

Construction

Stucco

Roof

Shingle

Heating

Floor furnace, natural gas

Cooling

None

Flooring

Hardwood, vinyl, carpet

Interior features

Formal dining room, tile counters

Kitchen

Tile counters, free-standing range/oven, refrigerator

Appliances

Free-standing range, refrigerator, gas water heater

Laundry

Laundry room, washer

Bath

Shower over tub, solid surface

Street level

1 bedroom, 1 bath

Upper level

1 bedroom

Lot

Level, regular, 0.06 acres

Yard

Back yard

Utilities

Public water, public sewer

Parking

Attached garage, garage door opener

MLS zoning

R2 (as recorded on the 2002 listing, under the pre-2010 city code)

Permits

2 recorded since 2018, both sewer lateral work in January 2018

House notes

Both MLS listings name the builder outright — the 2001 copy opens "Mini-MacGregor provides the new owner with a blank canvass-both house and yard", and the 2002 copy leads with "Here's a chance to own a MacGregor at 2/3 the price"
Sold twice in twelve months and for $50 over asking both times — $189,950 asked and $190,000 paid in September 2001, then $249,950 asked and $250,000 paid in September 2002
The 2002 seller cleared $60,000 on a year's ownership, and the listing itself explains where it went: "Lots of new paint, nice hardwood floors, some new windows and more"
The 2001 and 2002 photos are a before-and-after of that work — white and bare in one, repainted with new landscaping in the other
Both listings were pulled off the MLS fast, at 13 days in 2001 and 8 days in 2002, and closed six or seven weeks later anyway
The county cut the assessment 61% in a single year during the crash, from $275,656 in 2008 to $107,000 in 2009, then took nine years restoring it
Still on the Prop 13 basis set by the 2002 sale, so the $369,299 assessment runs $100,000 to $160,000 under what the valuation models put on it
Land is assessed at more than twice the improvements — $258,514 against $110,785
Zoned RM2 multifamily, which is why the county files it under use code 14, "single family on other than single family land"
Has not been on the market since 2002, nearly a quarter century without a recorded listing