Historic, Character Home, Finished Basement
1890 Macon Corner Lot with Built-Ins and Dual Porches — $68,500
6
out of 10
HousesUnder150K Score
Property Merit 50% · Condition 25% · Price/Sq Ft 15% · Market 10%
| Category | Wt. | Score | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property Merit | 50% | 7 | 1890 home, built-in hutch, built-in shelving, dual covered porches, corner lot, shed |
| Condition | 25% | 6 | "Personal touch" language suggests cosmetic work; no system dates provided |
| Price / Sq Ft | 15% | 9 | Listing $67/sqft vs zip median $147/sqft (54% below); 1 comp, directional only |
| Price vs. Market | 5% | 10 | $68,500 vs $189,418 median — 64% below; thin market caveat applies |
| Market Conditions | 5% | 6 | DOM 28, sale-to-list 99%, but 37.1% price drops signals buyer flexibility |
The price is the first thing that stops you. At $68,500, this is roughly a third of what comparable square footage is selling for in the zip code. That gap is real, and it does not come without explanation, but the number lands differently when you understand the context.
The house is from 1890, which in a small Missouri town means it has likely been through several lives already. One story with two bedrooms upstairs, one on the main level, a single bath, and 1,024 square feet total. The kitchen runs into a formal dining room that still has its built-in hutch, which is the kind of detail that gets removed in renovations and never replaced. The living room has built-in shelving too. Those are both original-era touches worth keeping.
There are covered porches front and back. The front porch faces the street on a corner lot with mature trees; the back porch gets the yard and the alley access to the south. A shed out back handles the tools. Partial basement for storage.
The agent description leans on "personal touch" language, which usually means cosmetic work at minimum. There are no system dates listed, so the age of the roof, the heat, the plumbing, the electrical, all of it is unknown from the listing data. A house built in 1890 with no disclosed updates requires eyes on it before you take any of these numbers seriously. Have an inspector who does older homes do a thorough walkthrough.
What the price makes possible: a three-bedroom house on a corner lot in Macon for under seventy thousand dollars, with original built-ins intact and covered porches on two sides. For someone willing to put in the work and budget for what a 134-year-old house might need, there is room here. A family could grow into this. Someone could take their time with it. The lot, the porches, the detail in that dining room hutch, those are the reasons to look.
