Asheville home listed in the NYT: What you get for $300,000

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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From the New York Times:

WHAT: A three-bedroom two-bath brick house

HOW MUCH: $294,000

SIZE: 1,481

PER SQUARE FOOT: $198.51

SETTING: This house is on a small semicircular road about a 10-minute walk from downtown Asheville. It backs up to McCormick Field, home to Asheville’s minor-league baseball team, the Tourists — the listing agent says you occasionally hear cheering and the crack of bats.

Asheville is a city in western North Carolina wedged between the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, known for its outdoorsy bent, mild hippyish leanings (there’s a regular drum circle open to the public), and strong dining-and-music culture.

INSIDE: The house was built in 1928 and, aside from the kitchen and bathrooms, minimally renovated since. The common areas — a kitchen, living room (with fireplace), dining room and den — are downstairs, and the bedrooms are upstairs. The downstairs bathroom has a shower and a door leading to the yard, where there is an outdoor shower. The basement is unfinished, but has a heated studio area. Most of the rooms in the house have views over downtown Asheville, toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. And in the yard, there’s a straw-bale hut that one of the owners built for storage.