Many actual property brokers have come to worry an look on Zillow Gone Wild, a social media juggernaut that has captured the eye of thousands and thousands of followers who gawk on the baffling structure, zany landscaping and weird decor of Zillow’s most unusual listings. However final week, the platform bestowed California-based actual property agent Sarah Rogers with a really uncommon reward — the uncommon distinction of itemizing the “good trendy” residence.
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Many actual property brokers have come to worry an look on Zillow Gone Wild, a social media juggernaut that has captured the eye of thousands and thousands of followers who gawk on the baffling structure, zany landscaping and weird decor of Zillow’s most unusual listings.
However final week, the account bestowed The Company Estates Division Government Director Sarah Rogers with a really uncommon reward — the uncommon distinction of itemizing the “good trendy” residence.
“I preserve getting increasingly more social media consideration from brokers and structure aficionados from sort of a variety of areas,” Rogers mentioned of the put up that at the moment has 10K likes, 2.8K feedback and a couple of.1K shares on Fb alone. “We’ve definitely gotten loads of consideration from folks throughout the Los Angeles Basin. It has undoubtedly helped [to be on Zillow Gone Wild].”
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Fb customers famous the five-bedroom, five-bathroom $4.48M San Gabriel Valley property appears to be like prefer it was ripped out of a film, with its hanging wooden spiral staircase, pristine classic MCM furnishings and decor and ceiling-to-floor home windows that present a one-of-a-kind view of the San Gabriel Mountains and Downtown Los Angeles.
The house additionally has an government workplace, wine room, steam and sauna room with a jet tub and a sunken household room — a function that’s slowly coming again into vogue after its heyday within the Nineteen Seventies.
“This home is beautiful!” a commenter mentioned. “I actually love the design and all of the wooden. It’s definitely not current-day trendy however I really like that. Seems like a peaceable spot in a loopy busy metropolis.”
“Each photograph saved getting higher,” added one other. “If I lived within the space and had the finances, I’d be scrambling to make this occur. Beautiful!”
Though some ZGW followers didn’t just like the “overly monochromatic” colour palette, it didn’t cease them from appreciating the straightforward fantastic thing about the itemizing in distinction to regular ZGW fare, which incorporates Freddy Kreuger-themed kitchens, basement jail cells and fully-carpeted loos.
“As a result of I’m used to Zillow Gone Wild posts, I saved ready for the home to thoroughly go off the rails,” a commenter mentioned. “On this case, it didn’t! I’m unsure what to suppose…”
Added one other, “That is Zillow gone tasteful. I like the adorning [and] inside design. It’s good.”
Over on Instagram, Compass actual property agent Samantha Rehr stoked envy when she confirmed the home is simply as good in individual as it’s within the itemizing images.
“I used to be in a position to see this masterpiece in individual this weekend — the photographs don’t even do it justice,” she mentioned. “Each inch of this home is jaw-dropping and large with fastidiously designed built-in items in all places you look. I’ve a pair extra photos on my grid of the sauna, the workplace and a sunken card desk.”
Rogers mentioned the 48-year-old house is the work of famous architect John Andre Gougeon, who designed a number of SoCal landmarks, together with the Pasadena Presbyterian Church, Park Marino Convalescent Middle and the Herrick Interfaith Middle at Occidental School.
“I believe it begins with having the narrative, the story of the property,” she mentioned. “It has been all about understanding what we’re promoting and having the whole lot in regards to the advertising and the private presentation of the house be according to what the architect would have envisioned.”
“So we eliminated window coverings as a result of frankly, they’re not essentially wanted as a result of their property is so non-public. You don’t see different properties and nobody appears to be like at you both,” she mentioned. “This house is all about bringing the outside in and having views all completely different sorts of views.”
One other Gougeon creation was offered in 2017 for $880,000. The Glendora house is roughly 4,000 sq. toes smaller than Rogers’ San Gabriel Valley itemizing; nonetheless, it nonetheless has most of the identical options that made Gougeon and his modern, Frank Lloyd Wright, well-known. If offered at present, Redfin mentioned it could be price $1.29M — a 46.5 % enhance in worth.
Rogers mentioned she expects the itemizing to go underneath escrow within the coming week and is hopeful in regards to the residence’s continued function in Los Angeles architectural actual property historical past.
“It’s just a little early but for me to foretell what number of [offers we’ll get] or what are [offers] going to say as a result of they don’t have any in hand, however simply the response has been met with such enthusiasm,” she mentioned. “One [broker] specifically commented that that is the perfect trendy home that he has ever seen and his firm makes a speciality of architectural actual property, in order that was fairly a praise.”
“I hope the following proprietor will honor the house’s structure,” she added. “Not like some homes which have actually actually modified from the unique [design], this can be a nice instance of preservation.”
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