About Whittier's Whittwood

This Market Report is for the Whittier, California neighborhood known as Whittwood. Here is information about Whittwood homes for sale, as well as homes that have sold in Whittwood.

First, let me tell you what part of Whittier I am talking about. The Whittwood area is bordered on the west by Colima Road, on the north by Whittier Boulevard, on the east by First Avenue and on the south by Lambert Road. Basically, the Whittwood neighborhood is centered around the Whittwood Town Center, south of Whittier Boulevard. All homes referenced in this article are within this Whittwood neighborhood.

This Market Report on Whittwood Homes for Sale will focus on Single Family Residences in this Whittier, California neighborhood.

As of today, there are 3 Single Family Residences for sale in the Whittwood area.

Seven homes are currently in escrow.

Two homes were sold during the month of October.

The average home in Whittwood that sold in October took 32 days to sell.

The average home sale price was $398,750, or an average cost per square foot of $305.56.

Over the past six months, 31 homes were sold in Whittwood, with an average sale price of $378,690, a cost per square foot of $259.91, and 31 days to sell.

It would take 1.5 months, at the current rate of sales, for all the current Whittwood homes on the market to sell.

A Sellers’ Market is when there is less than 5 months of supply. Whittwood is currently in a very strong Sellers’ Market. This Sellers’ Market actually applies to all homes for sale in Whittier, CA that are priced under $500,000. Whittier homes for sale that are priced above $500,000 are more plentiful; and the higher the price, the more advantageous it is for the buyer being able to have more leverage and less competition from other buyers.

If you own a home in Whittwood, it is a very good time to sell. Demand is high, and there are lots of buyers in this price range looking for their first home.

Below are details of Whittwood Home Sales over the past year.

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Parnell Park, Whittier, California

Located at 15390 Lambert Road, Parnell Park is bordered by Lambert, Scott and Mulberry.

Parnell Park is spacious, and has lots of picnic tables, barbecues and outdoor sinks for people who want to have a picnic. If you have a large group, you can reserve a section of tables by calling Whittier Park Department at (562) 464-3375.

The zoo has chickens, goats, Shetland ponies, geese and a few other barnyard animals. They are quite confined. There are not very many animals, but it does give city folk the opportunity to see some farm animals.

This Market Report is for the Whittier, California neighborhood known as Whittwood. Here is information about Whittwood homes for sale, as well as homes that have sold in Whittwood.

First, let me tell you what part of Whittier I am talking about. The Whittwood area is bordered on the west by Colima Road, on the north by Whittier Boulevard, on the east by First Avenue and on the south by Lambert Road. Basically, the Whittwood neighborhood is centered around the Whittwood Town Center, south of Whittier Boulevard. All homes referenced in this article are within this Whittwood neighborhood.

This Market Report on Whittwood Homes for Sale will focus on Single Family Residences in this Whittier, California neighborhood.

As of today, there are 5 Single Family Residences for sale in the Whittwood area.

Eleven homes are currently in escrow.

Four homes were sold during the month of July.

The average home in Whittwood sold in July took 41 days to sell.

The average home sale price was $387,499, or an average cost per square foot of $286.61.

It would take 1.25 months, at the current rate of sales, for all the current Whittwood homes on the market to sell.

A Sellers’ Market is when there is less than 5 months of supply. Whittwood is currently in a very strong Sellers’ Market. This Sellers’ Market actually applies to all homes for sale in Whittier, CA that are priced under $500,000. Whittier homes for sale that are priced above $500,000 are more plentiful; and the higher the price, the more advantageous it is for the buyer being able to have more leverage and less competition from other buyers.

If you own a home in Whittwood, it is a very good time to sell. Demand is high, and there are lots of buyers in this price range looking for their first home.

Whittwood is a great neighborhood, with plenty of shopping, good schools, moderately priced homes and a stable population of people who have lived in their homes for many years.

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Would you like to receive a detailed report of Whittwood home sales mailed directly to you? Call (800) 385-1585, ext. 102 for a Free Recorded Message, or go to the website, http://www.whittwoodhomesales.com.

My First Home was in the Whittwood area of Whittier, California. My parents bought the home on La Forge Street when it was built, in 1952. Those homes sold between $10,000 and $15,000, depending on the features and landscaping. Today, the average price for homes in the Whittwood area is about $372,000; so, you could say there has been some real estate appreciation. Our home was nice, with 3 bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms. It was fully landscaped, with a new block wall surrounding the back yard. It was in this back yard that I learned how to swing a baseball bat.

We had a famous movie star living catty-corner to our back yard. He was the child star Roger Mobley, who many people may remember as Gallagher, the kid detective in the Disney movies and TV specials. Roger was a couple of years younger than my brother, and he used to play with my brother and a bunch of his friends. He didn’t become real famous until after both of our families moved away.

When I was three and four years old, my older brother would put me in the red wagon, along with a dozen pop bottles, and take me to Safeway so we could exchange the bottles for the deposit. While at Safeway, he would usually buy each of us a pack or two of baseball cards. You know, the kind with the delicious bubble gum that came with the cards. The Safeway is long gone, and I believe it used to sit where there is now a McDonald’s, on the corner of Colima and Whittier Blvd.

Just a few blocks south of our house was another new home development being built. So, we took the red wagon over to the construction site and pulled plywood and 2 x 4s out of the trash piles, and then brought the materials home to build the fort. As I recall, it was very sturdy. My dad actually helped supervise the construction. I most vividly remember hitting myself on the chin with the claw of the hammer that I was swinging with two hands as I attempted to pound nails into the wood, and be useful as a 4 year old.

Can you imagine a bunch of kids digging a deep hole in the back yard while their father was away for work for a week? Well, my brother and some of his friends and I had the brilliant idea of digging our own swimming pool. When the hole got deep enough, the older boys lowered me into the hole on a rope, and I would scoop up the dirt into a bucket for them to pull up with the rope. I have no idea why our mother allowed us to get away with digging that hole. Maybe she didn’t see it, because it was right next to the fort that we had built, and it may have been hidden by the fort.

There was a professional photographer who, just before Christmas 1957, walked the neighborhood with his pony, and took photographs of children on the pony as he went from door to door. So, here you see “Cowboy Bob” on his pony in 1957, in the back yard of the La Forge house. I remember very clearly getting up on this pony to have my picture taken. I was very happy and excited.

My first school, where I went to kindergarten, was Orchard Dale Elementary. Of course, as a five year old, I walked to school with my best friend, Tommy, who lived across the street. People were much less paranoid back in the fifties. We were always home from kindergarten in time to see the real Cowboy Bob on television. One of our mothers would fix us sandwiches, and we would eat lunch either at his house or at mine every day.

Despite the neighborhood being very safe for children, we did have a very strange ice cream delivery man. He really gave everybody the creeps. He would always say, “Want some ithe cream little boy?”, or, “Want some ithe cream, little girl?”, in a very strange way. He was creepy, for sure. To this very day, my sisters and I can imitate what that ice cream man said, with his lispy accent, and know exactly whom we are imitating.

In addition to having a regular ice cream man, there was also home delivery of fresh milk to our front door every morning. It would come in glass bottles. I can remember shaking up the bottle so that the milk and cream would both come out when I poured my milk. The cream always floated to the top of the bottles, because homogenization was not yet used in processing dairy milk. Milk was much better then.

There was also a Helms Bakery truck that drove through the neighborhood two or three days a week. The delicious smell of the freshly baked bread would waft through the neighborhood whenever the Helms man opened up the back of the truck. It was truly the smell of Heaven.

This house had a fireplace in it that we loved to use during the winter. Dad ran a pipe to the fireplace, and drilled holes in it so we could use natural gas to start the wood fires easier. Nowadays, many home fireplaces are designed to use only natural gas. Below is a picture taken around Easter 1959 that shows the front porch and the chimney.

We left our Whittwood home in September after kindergarten, and I will always remember it fondly.

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About the author: The above Story about Memories of my Childhood Home in Whittwood, in Whittier, California was provided by Bob Willis, a Whittier Realtor®.

Would you like to receive a detailed report of Whittwood home sales mailed directly to you? Call (800) 385-1585, ext. 102 for a Free Recorded Message, or go to the website, http://www.whittwoodhomesales.com.

This Market Report is for the Whittier, California neighborhood known as Whittwood. Here is information about Whittwood homes for sale, as well as homes that have sold in Whittwood.

First, let me tell you what part of Whittier I am talking about. The Whittwood area is bordered on the west by Colima Road, on the north by Whittier Boulevard, on the east by First Avenue and on the south by Lambert Road. Basically, the Whittwood neighborhood is centered around the Whittwood Town Center, south of Whittier Boulevard. All homes referenced in this article are within this Whittwood neighborhood.

This Market Report on Whittwood Homes for Sale will focus on Single Family Residences in this Whittier, California neighborhood.

As of today, there are 9 Single Family Residences for sale in the Whittwood area.

Eight homes are currently in escrow.

Five homes were sold during the month of June.

The average home in Whittwood over the past 3 months took 63 days to sell.

The average home sale price was $372,366, or an average cost per square foot of $260.94.

It would take 3 months, at the current rate of sales, for all the current Whittwood homes on the market to sell.

A Sellers' Market is when there is less than 5 months of supply. Whittwood is currently in a very strong Sellers' Market. This Sellers' Market actually applies to all homes for sale in Whittier, CA that are priced under $500,000. Whittier homes for sale that are priced above $500,000 are more plentiful; and the higher the price, the more advantageous it is for the buyer being able to have more leverage and less competition from other buyers.

If you own a home in Whittwood, it is a very good time to sell. Demand is high, and there are lots of buyers in this price range looking for their first home.

Whittwood is a great neighborhood, with plenty of shopping, good schools, moderately priced homes and a stable population of people who have lived in their homes for many years.

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About the author: The above Market Report about Whittwood, in Whittier, California was provided by Bob Willis, a Whittier Realtor®.

Would you like to receive a detailed report of Whittwood home sales mailed directly to you? Call (800) 385-1585, ext. 102 for a Free Recorded Message, or go to the website, http://www.whittwoodhomesales.com.