Hog Pens and Garage Mahals- Lakes Region Real

Hog Pens and Garage Mahals- Lakes Region Real Estate Report June 2014

Bike week is here again and all that noise and rolling steel make all good men think about buying a new home with a big garage to keep their toys in…or, at least a couple might. You know, Hog Pends and Garage Mahals. A good garage to house your hog , rat rod, SS Supersport, or that shiny new Corvette is right up there high on the list of must-haves for many a road warrior. A man needs space. Two garage bays might not do it. You need at least three or four. Heated, preferably.





What’s hog or hemi worthy that’s on the market right now? Here are a few recommendations to ponder.

Up at 160 DW Highway in low tax Center Harbor, there’s an oversize two bay heated garage with a car lift so you can do all necessary repairs without lying on your back. There’s also a one car detached garage that’s perfect for storing all that extra stuff you’ve accumulated and can’t part with. You know like old car fenders, bumpers, and extra wheels and such. As an added bonus, there’s a charmingly updated 1912 vintage, four bedroom,


two bath home with 1,992 square feet of living space to roam around in when you aren’t in the garage. It features natural woodwork, wainscoting, pocket doors, and oak flooring. There’s a bright and sunny kitchen with a breakfast nook, a great room, large dining room, and screened porch with cathedral ceilings. The wrap-around porch would be perfect to sit on and watch the bikes roll by. This home sits on a potentially sub-dividable 9 acre lot and is in a commercial zone so maybe that bike shop you’ve always wanted to open might work here? This property is priced at $319,000 and is assessed at $301,300. Could be Hog Heaven?




Over in Gilford at 65 Savage Road (now, that’s a great street name for a biker to live on!) there is what is billed as a “magnificent 4 bay OVER SIZED garage!” Not only that, there is another two bay garage under one of the two homes on the property PLUS a three stall storage lean-to. How great is that! Wait, it gets even better. The 2,300 square foot main house has three bedrooms, two baths, large living room with gas fireplace, a sun room, PLUS a MAN CAVE in the basement! The second house has 924 square feet with one bedroom which is perfect for your in-laws (or outlaws) when they come to visit. And finally, this property is located at the end of a dead end road on 26 acres! How’s that for privacy? Dead on, right? This property is priced at $399,900 and is assessed at $376,800. Go check it out!





Now, if you are in need of space for eight cars or, oh…about 50-60 motorcycles check out the property at 10 Corliss Hill Road in Meredith. There you’ll find a 34’ x 62’ garage/barn with 10’ high doors, 12’ high ceilings, and 400 amp electrical service. The listing says that there’s enough cleared land for pasture and paddocks but we are talking iron horses here not hay eating ones. There’s also a heated two car garage that is attached to a very, very nice 4,270 square foot, four bedroom, two and a half bath cape constructed in 1999. This high quality home has a beautiful kitchen with granite and stainless steel, a bright and sunny living room with fieldstone hearth and soapstone wood stove, a first floor master suite, sun room, and lower level media and exercise rooms. After a long day riding on the trail… I mean the highway, you can come back home and jump in the heated saltwater pool and then have a drink on the patio by the cabana. The garage (and house) sits on a very private 28.7 acre lot so you can whoop it up a little if you want. This ride is a custom and is offered at $585,000.

There were 98 residential home sales in May 2014 in the twelve communities covered in this Hog Pens and Garage Mahals - Lakes Region real estate market report. The average sales price came in at $310,392 and the median price point was $214,000. Last May there were 99 homes sold at an average of $303,580 and a median price point of $192,500. There have been 321 sales this year through May 31 at an average price of $302,308 compared to 347 last year at an average of $259,832. Now if a few of the visiting bikers would purchase a home we could catch up…