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Extraordinary & Luxurious Packer Park Home For Sale!

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3222 S Sydenham St-MLS-17Rarely offered 25 Foot wide, CORNER, Brinton Estates home with 3- CAR Parking, driveway, Custom finishes throughout and huge rear yard, side yard, and 2nd floor deck!!

This Extremely high end home has it all!! The lot size is 28′ x 76′; the home is 25′ wide!!!! Best floor plan and finishes in the area! Several entertaining spaces! Custom Bar, media room and Den on the 1st level with access to a 28″ wide outdoor patio and side yard.

Second floor living space has a wide open living room area drenched in sunlight and an extra-large dining room open to the rest of the floor plan.

3222 S Sydenham St-MLS-9The custom kitchen has 42 inch flat panel modern cabinetry, granite counter-tops, granite back-splash, 48 inch wide commercial grade stainless steel freezer and refrigerator, stainless steel dishwasher, trash compactor, 48 inch wide professional series stainless steel Thermidor gas oven and range with a 48 inch wide professional vent hood system.

15 FOOT LONG GRANITE ISLAND WHICH COMFORTABLY SEATS 12!!!!

3222 S Sydenham St-MLS-11     3222 S Sydenham St-MLS-16

Some other amazing features include: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, wide plank hardwood floors throughout, Custom wood railings throughout, 3 inch and 4 inch designer recessed lighting throughout, speakers hardwired in almost every room, custom woodwork, crown moldings, beautiful baseboards and solid wood doors throughout.

Top-notch security system with multiple security cameras on the exterior front, rear and side. Several storage closets and storage areas.

Three nicely sized bedrooms each with custom shelving closet systems and tons of natural light. Master bath has marble tile double vanity huge walk-in shower with seamless glass doors and multiple shower heads.

Double glass doors leading to a Double-wide deck perfect for entertaining and dining alfresco. Absolutely amazing set up!

3222 S Sydenham St-MLS-19Truly an exquisite and showcase home located in a tremendous area, walking distance to the Navy Base business center, multi acre green park (FDR Park), Broad street, the sports complex and all of the amazing amenities South Philadelphia and Center City have to offer!!!

3-CAR PARKING!!! One of a kind opportunity!
3222 S Sydenham St, Philadelphia, PA 19145  –  $550,000
Contact Jim Onesti for more info 215.440.2052 or jonesti@mccannteam.com

BHHS Fox & Roach Main Office 215.627.6005

Packer Park Perk #2: Golf, Fishing and Outdoor Activities!!

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3One of Packer Park’s highly underrated attractions is its super close proximity to FDR Park in South Philadelphia.

When we sell homes in the area to out-of-town Buyers they are blown away by the underused green oasis within walking distance to our Neighborhood. It is definitely a huge selling point to be able to bike, jog, walk and golf nearby. In addition buyers love that the baseball/softball fields, kids playground, skateboard park, fishing, picnic & tennis areas, dog walking, nature walks and so much more are all within a couple of blocks of Packer Park!

Which other neighborhood in the city can boast that it is located two blocks away from a 348 Acre urban Oasis with a Golf course, about 125 acres of buildings, picnic areas, pathways for walking, landscaped architecture, and a variety of recreation areas placed within about 77 acres of natural lands including ponds and lagoons?

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Bordered by the South Philadelphia Sports Complex on South Broad Street, Interstate highway-95/Philadelphia Naval Yard and Pattison Avenue/ Packer Park residential neighborhood. Many Philadelphians enjoy it as a green “Oasis” for a variety of recreational activities.

2The park was built to the design of Olmsted Brothers, the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted and John Charles Olmsted in the early 1900’s. The parkland was reclaimed mostly from marshlands of Greenwhich Island one of several islands in the area created by river channels present in the 1700 and 1800’s. The use of the park for the Sesquicentennial Exposition in 1926 and subsequent improvements have moderately changed the original design, keeping the main character of the park west of Broad Street. The original plan of the Olmsted Brothers still remains highly visible and significant west of Broad Street. The official name was changed from League Island Park to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park in the late 1940s and a golf course was constructed. The park’s boathouse, gazebo and American Swedish Historical Museum are reminders of the 1926 Exposition. In 2000, the park was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places.

For more information on buying and selling in Packer Park, contact Jim Onesti today!
jonesti@mccannteam.com or 215.440.2052 Direct

Recent Packer Park Sales…

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Address Beds Baths Sold Price Settle Date
1908 Geary  4 2.5 $485,000 8/21/2013
1815 Hulseman 3 2 $315,000 6/28/2013
1904 Geary 3 2.5 $482,000 8/28/2013
3170 S 18th 3 1.5 $248,000 5/31/2013
3521 Reserve 3 2.5 $308,000 8/23/2013
1620 Croatan 3 1.5 $335,000 11/8/2013
3010 Smedley 3 1.5 $277,000 5/14/2013
1818 Packer 3 1.5 $245,000 7/25/2013
3230 Chaucer 4 2.5 $350,000 6/11/2013
3514 Reserve 4 2F/2H $367,000 7/26/2013
1526 Curtin 3 1.5 $295,000 7/11/2013
3129 Croatan 3 1.5 $250,000 11/18/2013

For more information on any of these sales or to find out what your home is worth, contact me today! Jim Onesti. 215.440.2052 or jonesti@mccannteam.com

OWN a Packer Park Home for $1,227 a month… OWN !! not rent…!

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We have been saying it for 3 years now…. it is THE perfect time to buy a packer Park home and it will not always be this easy!!!

The Perfect Storm for Buyers;

1. Rates are so low, you can borrow $220,000 for $988.oo/Month. Real estate taxes in packer park average $2880 annually, that’s $239/month +/-  $988 for your mortgage payment + $239/month for your taxes = $1,227 a month. you can barely rent for that amount!!!

2. Inventory is higher than ever before. Remember when we struggled to find a home in Packer Park? inventory has doubled in the area due to the construction of projects like the Reserve, Geary Estates and others…  Add the overall economic uncertainty to the equation and the 10+ months of Home Inventory available city-wide and you get a Buyers Market.

3. prices have bottomed. If you’re trying to time the Market, stop it… After several years of declining prices it is evident that prices have stabilized. Economic Indexes that track national Home prices are proof of this stabilization. Now is the time to buy.

Contact us today to buy Packer Park Real Estate !

http://www.PackerParkLiving.com

Jim Onesti, Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors, Mccann Team