http://www.thepantheronline.com/news/huell-howser-volcano-house-sale
They are smart to try to sell it before the volcano erupts.
40 photos of the house and extras:
http://www.estately.com/listings/info/50451-silver-valley-road–6
@justonedad yep - I thought getting insurance in a flood plain was tough, but this??
Also, I hope no one needs a loan to buy it - could you imagine trying to find comps for it?
Ha Ha. The appraiser had to go 42 miles to find another 2BR/2BA ranch home…
Which also explains why the value was set so low.
Oh my goodness. A house built on a volcano. And you are telling me that people have actually lived here? In this house built on a volcano? And this house is dome shaped? A dome shaped house built on a volcano? What was it like to live in a dome shaped house built on a volcano? Did you ever worry about the volcano erupting ?
Gotta love Huell.
“All proceeds from the Volcano House sale will go to the California’s Gold Scholarship fund set up by Howser at Chapman”
Volcano House sells for $750,000 - that’s $100,000 over the asking price
By MARILYN KALFUS / STAFF WRITER The Orange County Register Oct. 1, 2015
The Volcano House, a flying-saucer shaped home atop a 150-foot cinder cone in the Mojave Desert, has sold for $750,000, the listing agent said Thursday.
There was no immediate word on who the buyer is, or his or her intended use for the property.
Chapman University, which owned the home, received three offers at or above the $650,000 list price, Brady Sandahl of HOM Sotheby’s International Realty said last month.
The property hit the market Sept. 3. Huell Howser, the producer and host of the TV show “California’s Gold,” gave the iconic house, which sits on 60 acres, to Chapman University in 2012. He died a year later.
Sandahl said he and another agent listing the house considered other “architecturally significant” properties, mostly in the high desert, in coming up with the $650,000 price tag.
“We did go on the market at an appropriate value, and the market responded immediately with multiple offers,” he said in September.
Those interested in the property were prompted by different reasons, he said.
One prospective buyer had a thing for “rooflines,” Sandahl said, noting the home’s round, spaceship shape. Another was interested in the 60 acres, with an iconic house in the mix.
“Another buyer wanted to own the house because there’s nothing else like it in the world,” the agent said.
The university had said it would use the house for desert studies, astronomy and geology pursuits. But the home’s remote location in Newberry Springs, east of Bartstow, proved too impractical for the school.
“It’s pretty isolated out there,” Chapman spokeswoman Mary Platt said when the house went on the market. “It’s just too far away for us. There’s no support services for students as far as safety and that kind of thing.”
All proceeds from the Volcano House sale will go to the California’s Gold Scholarship fund set up by Howser at Chapman, Platt said.