It was a quiet week, more of a back-to-school week than a let’s-sell-the-house week.
The best new listing is in High Point’s Emerywood neighborhood. If there’s a more attention-getting house for sale in High Point than 427 Woodbrook Drive, I’d love to see it. The Alex and Adele Rankin House is a grand Tudor Revival on a big lot, white with yellowish-brown half-timbers, shutters and trim. It’s for sale at $950,000; at 3,753 square feet, the price is $253/square foot, relatively reasonable for a house like this these days. Built in 1924, it has a grand vaulted Tudor living room and period color tile in the bathrooms.
At the other end of the spectrum, there’s a novel little Craftsman bungalow in Hamlet for sale in Hamlet, a little far afield but well worth a look. Something you don’t see every day: It has two porte-cocheres, one on either side. If it looks familiar, that may be because it was just sold a year ago (but you can tell it’s not being flipped because the price is reasonable, relatively affordable even).
Sale of the Week: This bungalow in Gibsonville is charming and distinctive and sold for $5,000 more than the asking price ($330,000 vs. $325,000). The Alamance-Guilford county line runs through the backyard (the house is in Alamance). Gibsonville is one of the more intriguing small towns in the area.
Anniversary of the Week: The Philip and Johanna Hoehns (Hanes) House in Clemmons has now been for sale, off and on, for five years. The 1798 house and 8 acres of land are listed on the National Register. It was the home of the first Hanes family to come to Forsyth County. The price is $1.7 million. That’s a lot, but there are McMansions going for much more (here’s one).
Piedmont Historic Homes 