The 2-bedroom home snuggled into the western side of the Alexan Heights apartment complex has hit the market this week, lagging a few days behind this weekend’s discovery of an unidentified skeleton in a wall cavity accessible from the attic. The holdout house was foreclosed on in early 2015 after then-owner Mary Cerruti stopped making mortgage payments; it’s not clear exactly when she went missing, but she reportedly sent someone a Valentine, the Chronicle‘s Emily Foxhall reported earlier this week.  Foxhall noted that while the bones were uncovered along with a pair of cheap red glasses like the ones Cerruti was known to wear, the skeleton had not yet been officially identified (nor had foul play been ruled either in or out).
The recently remodeled house is currently on the market for $439,900;Â the 1,161-sq.-ft. building sits on a 6,600-sq.-ft. lot, spooned on 3 sides by the Alexan:
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- Bones Found in Wall of Heights Home of Woman Who Disappeared in 2015 [Houston Chronicle]
- 610 W. Allston St. [HAR]
- Previously on Swamplot:Â Human Skeleton Discovered in That Heights House That Wouldn’t Sell to Trammell Crow;Â Trammell Crow’s 5-Story Apartment Complex Surrounding Holdout Heights House;Â Allston or Nothing: Side Street Now at Center of Alexan Yale Apartment Dispute;Â A Photo Tour: The 2 Yale St. Lots Where Those 2 Alexan Apartment Complexes Want To Be; A Second Midrise Alexan Planned Right Beside the First One on Yale; Stealing a Glance at Proposed Alexan Heights on Yale
Photos: HAR
Whats with the W Allston address on HAR? Allston runs north-south. Maybe a way to not get negative (“remans found”) hits on internet home searches?
The kitchen could use a remodel, but the house definitely has good bones.
Refreshed, maybe. Remodeled? Nope. Am I wrong thinking that price is completely absurd? Is someone going to spend $1-1.5MM to live or even develop there?
@Honcho,
Agreed, $400,000-$450,000 is what a lot (5k-6,600sf) costs in the area (W. Heights), that’s not surrounded by an apartment complex. I’m thinking the discount should be significant, especially now. There is a FSBO a couple blocks north that backs up to the Fisher tower, any buyer is due a discount there as well but not as significant.
@Pitts – I see what you did there: “Definitely good bones.” Good stuff.
At that price, it’s a steal to raze the house and sell it to TCR for Phase II of their Alexan Heights development.
Pitts gets unofficial comment of the day!
@Pitts:. Too soon!
Hahaha.