1979 Magalia Pyramid Home on 2.63 Acres with Well and Septic — $125,000

It's a three-story pyramid. Not pyramid-inspired, not angular, not geometric. An actual pyramid-shaped house sitting on 2.63 acres in the hills outside Magalia, California.

The structure was built in 1979 and has been with the same owner since the 1970s. This is the first time it has been listed. That kind of tenure is unusual, and it means what you're looking at is something that was held onto rather than flipped or rented out or let go of casually.

The house runs 2,340 square feet across three floors. Inside there are two wood-burning stoves. The pyramid form means the floor plan tapers as you go up, so each level feels distinct from the one below it. There are three bedrooms and one bathroom.

What matters as much as the house is what's already in the ground. The property has a well, a septic system, and power already connected. In Northern California, especially in the foothills, getting those three things established on raw land takes time and money. Here they exist. There's also a fenced garden area and mature trees around the property.

The listing is clear that the house needs updating. It's been lived in since the late seventies and the interior will reflect that. You're not walking into something that's been recently renovated. But the structure is there, the infrastructure is there, and 2.63 acres of Butte County hillside with a working well is a real thing to build from.

At $125,000, you're paying roughly $53 per square foot for a two-story-plus structure on nearly three acres with utilities already in place, in a state where land with water rights and septic approval is genuinely hard to come by at any price. Magalia sits above Chico at around 2,500 feet, near Paradise and the Plumas National Forest. The address is on Doe Mill Road.

The architecture alone makes this unlike anything else listed in this county right now. What you do with that is its own question.