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I just revisited the other threads on these places and there are some pretty funny comments. This really makes for an interesting story. So now we have 2 REO's in D7, including the place on Jackson.

Surely the lot has got to have value around $2M? Heck, I'd buy it and park a double wide trailer home there. See how the Cow Hollow association would like that one. :-)

So that... that...proposed monstrosity may never be built?

Such an outcome from the economic downturn is almost worth the trillion dollars.

Sounds like somebody simply walked, and left the country . (And we don't know the backstory.) Surely there have been other REOs in D7 over the past five or six years. Whether they've been talked about it on blogs or not I cannot say. I'd be surprised if there weren't. Yeah, folks have money there. But yeah, folks can lose money over there too.

Here is another one from Propertyshark -- 2799 Pacific. Looks like it has some fun story behind it. Looks from the tax records like it was bought for about $6 million but there is an $11.3 million mortgage.

Sidebar: I went to college with one owner's sister (both sisters ran cross-country), and also a ridiculously cute distance runner who is married to the other owner's brother. I used to go running with them both -- they killed me. I wonder what the heck is going on.

You can't run from a resetting mortgage, Trip.

The 2799 Pacific situation is fairly stunning. It looks like the house went on the block today at 2:00 PM? Not a foreclosure expert here, but what does this mean exactly? This is across the street from 2500 Divis and is a superior home on a 2x, or 3x lot. From what I understand it's completely refinished inside.

I've recently seen an 8-figure loan in Piedmont (in Oakland) secured by a 7-figure house. A little googling indicated that the owner of the house also owned and ran a vineyard.

I assumed that the owner pledged his house as part of a large business loan. Same situation may apply.

>Surely there have been other REOs in D7 over the past five or six years.

Doubtful since when property values are rising the non-bank owner can get some money back by selling the place rather then just walking away. Perhaps there were some that were sold as part of bankruptcy proceedings but generally when the real estate market is performing as "well" as it did prior to a couple years ago, plain old vanilla mail the keys to the bank foreclosures are going to be rare.

2799 = Landmark 207

There are a ton of very expensive properties in Orange County which have loans which exceed their current value by MILLIONS. There was a blog post discussing this in some detail a month or two ago. Can anyone say "cash-out refi's"? That's what's going on, and when the music stopped ... they just took their cashed-out millions and walked away.

So what some two-bit flipper in Bayview was doing (at a "profit" of $200k), these people were doing for a profit of, say, $5M. Personally, I'd gladly, nay, I'd be ecstatic to trade my good credit rating for $5 mil in cold hard cash, secreted away safely overseas. And the beauty of it is -- no tax is owed! Its a loan!! Pure genius if you ask me. Definitely beats working for Google ...

You know things are bad when the ridiculously cute begin to suffer.

I wish someone would show the rest of hard working stiffs how to do this....

keep us posted on 2799 Pacific. I see nothing yet

Jimmy (No Longer Bitter): "Personally, I'd gladly, nay, I'd be ecstatic to trade my good credit rating for $5 mil in cold hard cash, secreted away safely overseas."

Boy, you're easy to please.... $5MM doesn't last long these days, even with a recession. If you're easy to please then you can be my boyfriend. :)

Uh, no thanks. Not even for 5 mil...

The final leg of the bear market in California real estate is dead ahead. While it was going to happen anyway, the debacle that is now unfolding in the interest rate complex will drop a neutron bomb, on any nascent recovery.

What's next is Prime. The bottom end has taken most of the punishment due. Much of it sits well within the conforming mortgage envelope. But everything in California above, say 550K is going to be pulled down one more time. It's possible that this might have not happened, without the bloodbath in mortgage rates. Possible.

What's fascinating is that the failure of quantitative easing was so easy to predict.

The sales, resales and refinancing on these 2 properties read like a novel

An opportunity for Zack|deVito architects?

2799 Pacific is a great house. I visited the then owner about 15 years ago. She was the elderly daughter of a well known M.D., who has completely restored it in fine period Victorian taste. Does anyone know what has happened since?

screw the butt-ugly SF trophy architecture . . . how about that Mitsubishi! Don't make 'em like that anymore!

I went to a party at this house not to long ago. We had to take an old school elevator just to get to the living room. The 50 something Iranian owner was dating the white, barley 20 year old Barbie doll my girlfriend worked with. The house was beautifully refurnished and the views were stunning. Everyone at the party couldn't stop talking about how the owner was a great developer who was going to make so much money off the house and the lot next door. My girlfriend would also tell me how he would fly him and his girlfriend in his private plane to Harris Ranch just to have dinner.

Being Iranian myself, I highly doubt she went over with him unless of course she really was a dumb blonde. The going interest rate in Iran last time I checked was 18% of something like that so I'm sure the owner is living the great life over there now. But the catch is you have to live in Iran.

"You can't run from a resetting mortgage"

But you can walk away from one! Looks like we may see ever more doing the same, out of necessity (looks like mortgage interest rates are ticking up a bit too):

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=anKvgNsd6mO8

What's up with the pic? Somebody parked their car right in front of the garage. I'd go ballistic if I wouldn't get out b/c some idiot blocked me in.

Usually it's the owner who parks an extra car there. SFites aren't shy about calling the tow truck.

Thank goodness the greedy jerk lost on this one. The side garden is the only thing making the original house special. Destroy that (especially with the horrible McMansion pictured!) and you now have two pieces of junk wher eone really nice house could have been.

Should really build on the new lot and take the current structure down!

So that... that...proposed monstrosity may never be built?

I don't know that I'd say it was a monstrosity, but I would lose that covered entrance. Makes the thing look like that Escher print with all the stairways...

I don't think the house is bad at all. I don't like the fact that it is so "high".... lots of steps up and reaches towards the sky.... Oh, and I'm not too crazy about the puke-ua trim (which can be changed to something more palatable). But I really do like the wood detailing inside, the high ceilings and the garden.

rumor is the FBI is after him for fraud on some Montana condo conversion project... apparently Barbie may move to Iran to avoid prosecution too and to be with her love.... true american dream for the owner... he's probably at least 55, and not in great shape, she's probably 24 or 25 now and a hottie. or is that the LA dream?

"or is that the LA dream?"

Indeed. That is why they call it "Tehrangeles"

Expired Listing. Withdrawn from Market.

nevermind: back on market @ $6,900,000

Back; and Rent to Own considered! How nice of them. Regardless, seems the owner is still in command of this thing for now.

Looks like this was sold at the foreclosure auction 10/15/2009. Starting bid was reduced to $3,066,000, and it was sold for $1 over.

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