{"id":78731,"date":"2025-12-02T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78731\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:22:09","slug":"historic-oakland-home-in-rockridge-sold-for-3-7-million-above-asking-price-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78731\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Oakland home in Rockridge sold for $3.7 million, above asking price \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Oakland home built by three-time Oakland mayor,\u00a0 Howard Beach in 1941, sold for $3.7 million, well above the original asking price of $2.995 million.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Wood paneled living room. \" width=\"1280\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41116157_9_2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"12346648\" \/>An Oakland home built by three-time Oakland mayor,  Howard Beach in 1941 (Compass).\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Master bedroom with patio.\" width=\"665\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/genMid.41116157_23_2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"12346655\" \/>An Oakland home built by three-time Oakland mayor,  Howard Beach in 1941 (Compass).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 3,647-square-foot Mediterranean-style home has 4 bedrooms and 4 baths. The home retains period features of mahogany trim and built-ins and touts a sprawling backyard with a pickleball\/basketball court. The master suite features a balcony overlooking the yard and a vista of the Oakland hills.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Home with basketball court and pickleball court.\" width=\"665\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/genMid.41116157_1_2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"12346653\" \/>An Oakland home built by three-time Oakland mayor,  Howard Beach in 1941 (Compass).\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"View of Oakland hills from backyard.\" width=\"665\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/genMid.41116157_26_2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"12346656\" \/>An Oakland home built by three-time Oakland mayor,  Howard Beach in 1941 (Compass).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kim Cole with Compass held the listing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Patio with fireplace.\" width=\"1280\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41116157_48_2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"12346650\" \/>An Oakland home built by three-time Oakland mayor,  Howard Beach in 1941 (Compass).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before he was mayor, Beach opened Berkeley\u2019s first movie theater and owned a few neighborhood theaters in Oakland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland home built by three-time Oakland mayor,\u00a0 Howard Beach in 1941, sold for $3.7 million, well above&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,387,7,332,181,143,145,144,388],"class_list":{"0":"post-78731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alameda-county","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-east-bay","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-oakland","15":"tag-oakland-headlines","16":"tag-oakland-news","17":"tag-real-estate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}