Tamarisk - Flip in Northpark?

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<p align="left"><strong>Address:</strong> 27 Trailing Vine, Irvine, CA 92602 (Northpark)


<strong>Plan:</strong> 1500 sq ft - 3/2.5


<strong>MLS:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.redfin.com/stingray/do/printable-listing?listing-id=546656&rc=blg_irvine&utm_source=irvinehousingblog&utm_medium=blog">S476804</a> <strong>DOM</strong>: 13


<strong>Sale History: </strong>05/11/2006: <u>$616,500


</u><strong>Current Price</strong>: <u>$679,900</u></p>

<p>This Plan 3 condo in the Tamarisk tract built by William Lyon Homes was purchased from the builder in May of 2006 with 20% down. Although it’s in the 92602 Zip, this tract (and the Mericort tract by California Pacific Homes) have nothing else around it (except for an affordable? housing apartment complex) - so I don’t believe it’s actually in the village of Northpark. I just wasn’t sure what to call it. Although the tract doesn’t belong to a proper village, it is in a pretty convenient location (near I-5 and Culver).</p>

<p>It was listed on the market 1-2 weeks ago and the private remarks on the listing say “HOME IS VACANT. GO DIRECT. SELLER WANTS TO SELL NOW, WRITE ANY OFFER. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING”. Was this home purchased with the intent to flip? Was it a job relocation? YOU decide!</p>

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<p>If sold at the current asking price and assuming 6% in selling costs, the sellers are looking at a <strong>profit of around $22,000</strong>.</p>

<p>The most recent second hand sale I’ve found in this tract was a Plan 3 located at 81 Trailing Vine. 81 Trailing Vine was purchased from a flipper for $635k on 5/30/2006. The flipper bought it for $535k from the builder on 10/19/2005. The 81 Trailing Vine flipper made about $62k (after assuming 6% in selling costs) in about 7 months! No wonder there are so many people trying to flip homes in Irvine.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if $635k turns out to be the highest priced sale in this tract for a long time.</p>
 
<p>You call the location convenient, I call it bad for your health (especially for kids). It is really close to the I-5. The LA Times had an article on the relationship between a kid's proximity to freeways and permanently reduced lung capacity. Based on a huge long-term study. Scary stuff. No way I will ever buy a place within 1,500 yards (about a mile) of a freeway.</p>

<p>See the article here: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-lungs26jan26,0,2051206.story?coll=la-home-headlines">http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-lungs26jan26,0,2051206.story?coll=la-home-headlines</a></p>

<p>Check out this quote: "If you live in a high-pollution area and live near a busy road, you get a doubling." I think Culver qualifies as a busy road.</p>

<p>Another one: "This tells me that I wouldn't want to be raising my children near a significant source of fine-particle air pollution ... I, myself, would want to be living in areas where the exposure is lower."


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<p>Should we start factoring freeway proximity into price?</p>
 
<p>i have read the article and that make Woodbury right in the Middle of the Busy I-5 and the Irvine Landfill we discussed earlier about a mile each, smack right in the middle!!!!!!!</p>
 
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