Home of the Week: This Medford starter condo is amenity-stacked
Building amenities include an indoor pool, a sauna, a tennis court, and garage parking. See more, and search the latest listings, at realestate.boston.com.
48 Forest St., Unit 208
$384,900
Style Condo
Year built 1890; converted 1984
Square feet 826
Bedrooms 1
Baths 1 full
Fee $479 a month
Pets Allowed with some restrictions.
Taxes $3,368 (2021)
Built in the late 19th century, this former high school now hosts 111 condo units, including this one on the second floor that could provide a financial shelter for someone working to reduce their student loan debt load but still live comfortably.
The front door opens into a small foyer and a hallway that stitches the living spaces in this unit into a whole. To the right is a galley-style, 75-square-foot kitchen with wood raised-panel cabinets, laminate counters, laminate flooring that mimics wood, a mosaic tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances, and track lighting.
Opposite the kitchen is an 81-square-foot bonus room with a pair of closets behind bifold doors and a ceiling fan with lights. The six-panel door makes this carpeted room, which is about as big as the kitchen, a great home office or a guest room.
The dining area has laminate flooring and shares a 393-square-foot space with a living area bathed in natural light from a pair of replacement windows sized for the 1890s, when breezes were the primary means of cooling a home. (The unit has central air now.) The living area features a blue accent wall, carpet underfoot, and a ceiling fan with lighting above it all.
Off this open space are two more doors: one to the unit’s full bath, the second to the primary bedroom. The bath has a shower/tub combination behind a shower curtain. The cabinet for the single vanity mirrors the kitchen cabinets, and the sink is a manmade material. The flooring is ceramic tile.
The primary bedroom, however, is carpeted, and a ceiling fan with lights helps push the air from the wide, tall window around the 190-square-foot room. The wide closet has sliding mirrors for doors.
This unit won’t ever be mistaken for a “McMansion’’ in terms of square footage, but it is neat, the ceilings are high, and the building amenities are many. The building offers a tennis court, an indoor pool, a sauna, a grilling area, private storage, and a single parking space in the underground garage. Ninety-four of the building’s 111 units are owner-occupied, according to the listing, and there are laundry facilities in the basement.
Debbi Runcie of the Linda O’ and Alison Socha Team at Leading Edge Real Estate has the listing. As of press time, an offer had been accepted on this home.
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