Pine St. studio with tiniest kitchen ever lists for $395K

[Liberal_in_LA]

Witness 725 Pine St., #304, with a price tag of $395K. The square footage has been left off the official listing, but a tour through the gallery shows it’s tiny. Cute though, and centrally located. Per its website, the unit is in “The Lambourne Nob Hill, located just across from the Ritz Carlton” and features “a cozy bedroom area, deluxe bathroom with marble Carrera accents and fixtures from Danze-Parma Collection. Custom kitchen by Scavolini with micro-wave/convection oven, hardwood floors, and common storage, in-unit washer/dryer combo.” The HOA is $463 a month but does not include parking, though that can be leased “in the neighborhood.” There’s also an elevator, which is always a joy when moving into a 3rd-floor apartment.

But if you like to cook anything more complicated than microwave popcorn, this studio is not the answer to your home-ownership dreams. As Curbed SF puts it, “the kitchenette turns out to be squished into a far corner, and it’s even smaller than those in some of the city’s most depressing rentals. It is literally the width of a microwave [which double as convection oven] with a mini-fridge on the bottom.”

Given the age of the building and downtown location, this unit was clearly once just a room in a boarding house, later converted to something one could own and live in independently by cramming a kitchenette in what was likely a closet. Still, it wouldn’t be a terrible investment. A few blocks down on Pine, a studio is renting for $1,875 a month. If you could put enough down, that would be a nice return on your money. Or, as long as no one needs a home-cooked dinner, you could call it home.

http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2015/08/27/pine-st-studio-with-tiniest-kitchen-ever-lists-for-395k/#photo-679176

[Art_from_Ark]

1. Holy Toledo!

And here I thought the kitchen in my place was cramped

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. it's a bedroom converted to a studio apartment rather than a studio built to be a studio

Looks like a room with a bathroom. some kind of nook made into a kitchen.