990 Green #6 is a stunning three-level penthouse condo in Russian Hill. It boasts 4 bedrooms, 6.5 baths, and 3+ car parking; panoramic views, a “home theater” with wet bar, and a “large walk-out patio with hot tub.” It’s priced at just under seven million ($6,885,000), and we’re seriously smitten (but still trying to reconcile that track lighting and design in the home theater and game room).
And if you thought the photography and website for 61 Parnassus was impressive, 990 Green takes it to a whole new level.
∙ Listing: 990 Green #6 (4/6.5) – $6,885,000 [990Green.com] [Payton Stiewe]
∙ Inside 61 Parnassus [SocketSite]
And the point of showing this to the 99.9999999999% of those plugging in, who in a million years would not even be able to afford to buy just the garage to this place, let alone the place itself, is……????
I appreciate your showing everyone exactly what it is that they CAN’T have here in SFO.
Hey you dope, it’s just real estate porn. I can’t have those women I see in magazines, but it’s still fun to drool over them.
The whole new level is here to stay. As buyers exit the market in droves, and everyone but the sellers realize that the party’s over, in order to get any interest on a place listed for last year’s prices, you need to do more than just have a couple of open houses and write “offers due in two weeks”. And face it, Saturday opens are so 2005: they just don’t cut it any longer!
Real Estate is to porn as….hmm. Very interesting analogy.
However, if I want porn, I’ll pick up a copy of Hustler, but if I want actual useful information about what’s going on with the “mainstream” real estate market in San Francisco, I’m not really interested in looking for it in the latest issue of Barely Legal.
Sincerely,
Mr. “Dope”
Most real estate transactions walk the boundary of legality, so “barely legal” would probably be a great title for a magazine that DID report the mainstream legal market in SF!
Slight rephrase. I would say, “usually” reports on the mainstream in SF.
Sorry but I cannot resist the obviously bad pun I’m about to spew …
I am just GREEN with envy toward anyone who can afford this place, track lighting or not.
Mr. Dope, don’t be annoyed. Although these types of properties are complete fantasy to 99.9% of us, allow yourself to succumb to the dream … imagine yourself in the penthouse … let yourself go.
Annoyed –
Exclusively seeking “actual useful information about what’s going on with the mainstream real estate market in San Francisco” isn’t very sporting now, is it? Socketsite, in my experience, is extremely democratic in not trafficking exclusively in high-end housing porn.
I wonder how many copies of Road & Track would sell if they focused exclusively on Camrys instead of Lamborghinis… or how many copies of Wine Spectator would sell if devoted exclusively to wines under $10…. The fact is that the high end of a given category provides for extremely compelling reading. Or voyeurism, if you will.
900 Green #6 is a nice place. The home theatre is a disaster, but otherwise it has much to recommend it.
Don’t be angry.
I heard there’s a discrepancy with the advertised square footage of Camrys – oops, sorry, wrong area of Socketsite for this posting…
Mmm … I’m imagining myself in the penthouse now, sipping an outrageously expensive wine as recommended in Wine Spectator, getting ready for a delicious dinner at (insert high end restaurant name here) and I will be taking my Lambo to get there … ahh. If this is wrong, I don’t want it to be right.
Danko. It’s just down the hill.
Payton’s listing is a knockout. I find these type of postings particularly edifying, regardless if I can afford them or not, especially juxtaposed to cookie cutter stainless steel and granite counter top specials. How would you recognize quality otherwise?
Well, I, for one, find all of this absolutely fascinating, both the high and the low.
And the comments.
Personally, if I could afford the price of this listing I’d buy a place on Maui and lease it out at 5 or 7K a week.
By the way, given the large number of negative comments here, I predict a big comeback for can-type track lighting in the next few years.
There is not one curtain, or indeed curtain rail to put one on, in the entire place and some of those neighbours are pretty close – I wouldn’t want to walk around naked in there without something up at the windows at least on the side of the property – who wants to spend 7 million and then have to have someone come in and ruin the decor drilling holes for curtain rails – stupid!