In all places you look, in all places you go, there’s a face of any person who wants you … and needs to name you their house.
Followers of the long-lasting sitcom “Full Home,” which famously starred Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen — in addition to the late comic Bob Saget, who handed away unexpectedly in January at age 65 — can now personal a part of the present’s historical past.
A San Francisco home that’s one of many metropolis’s hardly ever obtainable Queen Anne- and Victorian-style “Painted Women” — a row of seven properties that appeared on tv screens within the present’s intro sequence — has listed for $3.55 million, its itemizing brokerage advised The Put up.
The property snoops at the Wall Avenue Journal first reported the information, including that the vendor — Leah Culver, a senior software program engineer at Twitter — is seeking to break even. She bought the Queen Anne home, previously dressed with a pink exterior, for $3.55 million in January 2020.
Culver lives close by and purchased the Eighteen Nineties unfold, which was in a state of disrepair after the identical household had owned it for some six many years, with hopes of a renovation. Two months after her January 2020 buy got here the stateside outbreak of COVID-19 — and the pandemic reportedly prompted delays in securing permits for the work, which the Journal has not but began. Nevertheless, Culver advised the Journal that she has the permits wanted from the planning division, and anticipates to obtain the identical from the constructing division this summer time. Merely put: She’s promoting as a result of she now not has the time required to see the renovation via.
In a message to The Put up, the brokerage added that the sale contains authorised permits from David Armour Structure to revive the two-unit construction, at 714 Steiner St., to “its former glory.” That features the creation of a giant higher unit with 5 bedrooms, three full loos and a powder room that’s roughly 3,000 sq. toes in measurement with a three-level floorplate. The decrease degree could have a two-bedroom, one-bathroom unit that’s 845 sq. toes with its personal entrance and laundry — and might be used as a visitor suite or income-producing property. (The house was cut up into two models in 1960.)
“I actually need to discover a purchaser who cares about San Francisco, and this property and the placement,” Culver, who has an Instagram account for the house, @pinkpaintedlady, which boasts 19,500 followers, advised the Journal.
Residing within the metropolis by the bay has historically include a heavy price, and now's no completely different. The Journal notes that the market has low provide and excessive demand. And within the first quarter of 2022, median gross sales climbed to $1.87 million — a 21% improve from the $1.55 million tallied throughout the identical interval a yr earlier.
For many who pays the worth, the house delivers a pleasant dose of historical past. All seven houses, in any other case often called the “Seven Sisters,” had been constructed by a person named Matthew Kavanagh between 1892 and 1895. Born in Eire, Kavanagh immigrated to America in 1869, and commenced together with his own residence, at 722 Steiner St., then accomplished the others. This listed house, at No. 714, was accomplished in 1895.
Options inside No. 714 embrace views of Alamo Sq.’s hills from oversize bay home windows on all three ranges. The kitchen, on the rear of the house, seems to be to the dome of Metropolis Corridor, whereas the second and third flooring look to San Francisco’s downtown skyline.
The itemizing photographs certainly present a house in a state of disrepair — however look previous them to see a spindled staircase, hardwood flooring, wood-framed home windows, moldings, excessive ceilings and the change to have a big kitchen.
Nina Hatvany, of Compass, reps the itemizing.
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