160 Manchester (Image Source: MapJack.com)
Designed by William Stout, the contemporary 160 Manchester atop the north slope of Bernal Heights sold for $1,116,000 in November 2008. Back on the market in March 2010 and asking $1,099,000. As usual, we’re digging the decks.
∙ Listing: 160 Manchester (3/2.5) – $1,099,000 [Redfin] [Map]
Q&A> William Stout [archpaper.com]

22 thoughts on “160 Manchester: Will This (North Slope) Bernal Stout Stand Up?”
  1. This one will be interesting. It was purchased in the teeth of the storm last time around. But if I recall properly, the house needed updating and wasn’t without some issues. I wonder if they addressed anything. If the little postage stamp of a house that just sold for 790K four doors down is any indicator, people are going nuts for this block. We’ll see.

  2. A block over (and down the hill a little) 3287 Folsom (~2000 sq.ft., a mix of ‘vintage’ and newer construction) went active contingent very quickly, asking $1.175million.

  3. @EBGuy re: 3287 Folsom – I was very surprised to see it go contingent so quickly, since IIRC it had been listed in late 2009 for some time at about the same price and then retracted until the recent listing.

  4. 3287 Folsom failed to sell for three months last spring at the same price and slightly more. As far as 170 and 180 Manchester, you’re not thinking of those two, but this one. 170 sold for 1.05M back in ’03, and 180 went for 1.385M back in the spring of ’04. Both are larger, 170 only slightly. 180 is at the very top of the hill, it’s over 2000 feet, with no neighbors behind or above. It would probably get well above 1.5M today, and it’s a 2/2.

  5. 3287 Folsom was originally listed at 1.35 last fall. The price was gradually reduced to the current listing price of 1.175, before being taken off the market. It’s in escrow now, but on the Sunday tour last weekend the agent said it is now subject to tenant’s rights.

  6. 3287 Folsom was originally listed at 1.35 last fall.
    Are you sure about fall of 2009? The price rings a bell but the timeframe doesn’t correspond to anything I’ve looked at.
    They did rent it at some point along the way. As far as tenant’s rights, it’s a SFR and subject to OMI.

  7. Listing history suggests that the prior listing was Feb to May of last year, not fall.
    Feb 26, 2010 Delisted
    Feb 18, 2010 Listed $1,175,000
    May 16, 2009 Delisted
    May 01, 2009 Price Changed
    Apr 09, 2009 Price Changed
    Mar 09, 2009 Price Changed
    Feb 19, 2009 Listed

  8. Katy — 140 Manchester? I see 150 Manchester next to 160, and then 122 next to that, and 120 next to that.

  9. Has an 80’s vibe to it…it’s sort of selfish looking. The following law should be implemented for any house that will be purchased for over 3x the median area income:
    One day before purchsing the home, the buyer must stand for 15 mins.in a room which contains two items: 1)A poster sized picture of the house to be purchased 2) A pile of cash equal to the amount required to pay off the mortgage for the given house.
    If this law were implemented I suspect that the purchase price of homes in SF would fall very quickly… While I’m waiting for this law to pass, I’ll settle for basic market reforms:
    -Bid verification.
    -Transparent inventory levels and status (no more secrets and slights of hand).
    -Sound lending standards (how about letting the high fliers risk their own money for a change).
    -Tranparent price paid (what is the effective price).
    -Reduction of market inefficiencies (transaction costs should add value…right?).
    As consumers, we all have weaknesses for purchasing one item or another. We just need to protect ourselves for each other stupidity.

  10. The Joy Luck house is 180 Manchester, the uppermost of the 3 houses. It sold in July 2004 for $1.38 million.

  11. ^ wacha mean by joy luck club house? Amy tan
    lived there? I thought she lives in the north part of the city.

  12. William Stout may have originally designed this house but without the picture of the exterior one would never know. Who furnished/painted/staged this place? It’s a 90’s dorm room trapped in a modernist architectural body. What is with the floor, I count at least 3 different woods/laminates, one of which is a really awful manufactured wide plank faux aged dark cherry that would barely be suitable for a low brow track home somewhere in Baltimore…barf. Looks like Vern Yip from trading spaces came in and did the purple and grey ‘feature’ walls and they must have really cleaned up at the Levitz clearance sale. And the little wire frenchman wine rack near the dining table is just so wrong wrong wrong! It is unfortunate when people with no taste contaminate something interesting and beautiful with cheapness and mediocrity. Sad but kind of funny.

  13. I heard that the neighbors have been nothing but trouble. Think about it, they want to keep a sense of integrity to style to architecture and community, and sympathy to people around them, sharing the proverbial cup of sugar as it were. If I needed eggs, would I want to go down that severe hill, especially in the rain? What if my breaks were tenuous? And what if I also sported a headache? The three distinct floor types don’t help with any of that, do they? Speaking of the Levitz clearance sale, does anyone know when it is?

  14. In the end, 3287 Folsom (discussed above) sold for 1.175, which was its asking price this time around. However, it was originally listed for 1.35 last spring, failed to sell, then taken off the market.

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