Minneapolis/St. Paul Realtors reported this month that pending sales have jumped in the City of Lakes by more than 28 percent. Across the board, the metropolis inventory of homes is slipping and sales moving up as prices have leveled and buyers come out of the woodwork.
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Hot Market: Minneapolis Has Largest Jump in Years
Here in the PR department at Zillow, we’re counting down the days until the new 90210 starts (five), at least partly for nostalgic reasons. Most of us were in junior high or high school in 1990, when the original series started. Personally, I tried and tried to make my hair look like Kelly Taylor’s, but was always foiled by the humidity in my hometown, Central Illinois.
Being real estate geeks as well as children of the 90’s, we started talking about the homes featured in the show, and some questions came up. Like, if the Walshes could afford that great house in Beverly Hills, what must their Minneapolis digs have been like?
I did a little digging on Zillow and the internet in general. First off, I found out that Jim and Cindy Walsh were smart to hold onto their house and let Brandon and friends live there while they went off to Japan. Home values in Beverly Hills keep going up, despite the major downturns in most areas of California. (Shameless plug: home values in the Hills have appreciated 10 percent over the last decade, according to the Q2 Zillow Real Estate Market Reports).
But I found out the house that posed as Brandon and Brenda’s is not, in fact, in the 90210 ZIP code. Scandalous. According to IMDB, it is actually in Altadena, Calif., about 25 miles to the east of Beverly Hills.
The house is actually located at 1675 E Altandena Dr, Altadena, CA 91001. It’s a four-bedroom, four-bath, built in 1928, with a Zestimate of $1.6 million. (Side note: I was surprised it had four bathrooms. Remember how Brandon and Brenda shared one? It was right between their bedrooms.)
Not too shabby, even if it’s not actually in 90210… But what if it was?
Well, it would probably be a tad more expensive. I searched for a similarly-sized home in Zillow’s for sale listings in the 90210 ZIP code. I found one on San Ysidro Drive that seems to be a bit smaller than the Walsh abode (three bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths), but it’s a tad pricer, with a Zestimate of $4.1 million and an asking price of $2.8 million. I’m sure the Walshes would have been very happy there.
I know things are a bit more expensive than they were in 1990, but for the sake of comparison, let’s see what $2.8 million would get the Walsh family back in Minneapolis. I’m assuming Jim got a nice salary bump with the new job in LA, but I’m curious.
Wow. Six bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, 11,000-plus square feet. Nice place. “Minneapolis 55403” doesn’t quite have the same ring, though…
BTW, according to the Zillow Q2 Real Estate Market Reports, the Zillow Home Value Index in Minneapolis is $207,116. In the 90210 ZIP code, it’s $3.2 million.
Anyway, I’m hardly the first Kelly Taylor wanna-be to be curious about 90210 real estate. Check out this post from the Iamnotastalker blog. Lindsay, I’m a little jealous.
