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Listed price in listed location currency (USD).
$359,900

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MLS® 1024002

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Overview

Key Facts

Type Single Family Residence
Levels Residential
Size 1322 sqft
Garage 
Taxes $6,018
Days Active 2
Lot Size 0.0941 Acres
Approx. Age 1880
Avg. Price Per Sqft $272
MLS® Number 1024002

Property Address: 7 Rowan Street, Middletown, NY, 10940

Average square foot calculated using Size range provided by listing agent.

Description

Here is the rare first home that costs almost nothing to worry about. It has been remodeled through and through, so the bills that scare new owners are already behind you. The kitchen is brand new. The bathroom is brand new. The roof is only 8 years young, the siding is new, the windows are new, and even the water service line has been replaced. Natural gas heat keeps the coldest stretch of winter affordable, and municipal water and sewer keep your monthly costs low and predictable. There is no repair fund to build and no project waiting for your first weekend, and it all sits in Middletown, one of the most in-demand markets in Orange County right now. Low to own, already finished, and in the place everyone is trying to get into. That is the smart part. Here is the part that matters just as much. For a long time now, you have been living inside someone else's four walls, paying into a place that was never going to be yours, or making do under a roof that belonged to someone else, always a little careful, always a guest. Picture the first evening that ends differently. You turn the key, you step onto your own porch, and no one can raise the rent, sell it out from under you, or decide the color of the walls is not yours to choose. That shift, into a place that is finally your own, starts the moment you walk through this door. Inside, the main floor opens up and flows, so the kitchen never feels cut off from the room where you actually spend your evenings, and light moves easily through the space. An electric fireplace softens the cold months and central air handles the summer. Upstairs, fresh carpet underfoot and the bedrooms set apart from the living space give you the kind of quiet you close a door on at the end of a long day. A walk-in closet finally gives your things a home, and the laundry lives up here too, right where the clothes already are, so wash day stops being a trip and starts being an afterthought. Back downstairs, the covered deck hands you a private piece of outside that answers only to you, and a full basement runs the length of the home, unfinished and waiting for the workshop, the studio, or the room you grow into later. Then there is the city itself. Middletown is the largest in the county and in the middle of a real revival, where buyers are chasing walkable downtown living and more square footage per dollar than almost any other address around. Owning here means your money goes into a place people actively want to be. You are minutes from the Paramount Theatre and its lit marquee, a short walk from the independent kitchens and the pizza North Street is quietly famous for, and close to the Erie Way Trail that runs flat and easy along the old rail line. When you want out, the Middletown station on the NJ Transit Port Jervis Line runs to Hoboken and Penn Station, Route 17 and I-84 are minutes away, Stewart International Airport is 20 minutes, and Manhattan sits about 70 miles down the line. This is the one where the paying stops and the owning starts, in a home that costs little to keep and a city everyone is trying to get into. Walk it once and you will already know whose name belongs on the door.
MLS® Number1024002
Laundry Level
Central VacNo
FireplaceYes
Acreage
Exterior
Garage
Approx. Age1880
BasementFull, Unfinished
DrivewayDriveway, Off Street
Garage Spaces
HeatBaseboard, Hot Water, Natural Gas
A/CCentral Air

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Home Estimate Zoopraisal®

This property is estimated to sell between: $331,000 and $375,000.
Similar properties in this area sold on average for: $331,416
Expected to sell in 33 days. Similar properties sold in 35 days. This home has been on Zoocasa for 2 days.

The estimated sale price does not take into account many variables such as recent renovations, type of appliances, school district etc. To get a more accurate estimate please contact agent.

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