Midcentury modern Rummer-built home sells for $1.2 million, $205,000 over asking price

The at the time-humble midcentury fashionable dwellings crafted by Robert Rummer in Oregon are much more preferred than ever and rarely on the industry. Many proprietors stay place for a long time, refusing to give up a glass-enclosed central atrium, towering clear partitions and skylights that deliver a perception of the outside, even on damp, grey times.

Modeled after developer Joseph Eichler’s Case Analyze-like tract households in California, a Rummer property with four bedrooms in Beaverton area’s Back garden Household neighborhood 1st marketed in 1968 for all over $30,000.

In 1993, prospective buyers paid $135,000 for the assets and offered it two months in the past for $1,165,000, in accordance to listing agent Marisa Swenson of Dwell Realty. The appreciation more than 29 years: $1,030,000.

A different Rummer household, designed in 1966 on Southwest Cecilia Terrace in the similar community, bought for $1.2 million — $205,000 around the $995,000 inquiring rate — on June 28.

Listing agent Troy Slonecker of Summit Realty recognized an present following two times on the industry. The property had bought for $750,000 in Oct 2019, in accordance to community records.

The pattern for “Mad Men”-era midcentury fashionable is potent in décor, represented by a spare, “clean” glimpse, and the aesthetic actually reigns in true estate, where purchasers want adaptable, open flooring options introduced to middle-money consumers by developers like Eichler and Rummer.

“There is a huge purchaser pool for a Rummer residence,” says Swenson, who specializes in midcentury modern and modern modern homes in the Portland region.

1968 Rummer house A 1968 Rummer-built house in Southwest Portland’s Garden Home neighborhood was sold for $1,165,000 in May 2022 by Marisa Swenson of Dwell Realty. — This 1968 Rummer-created dwelling has no porch or picture window that allows a person on the sidewalk to see inside of. Clerestory home windows draw all-natural light into the central atrium.Dwell Realty

The one-degree Rummer dwellings, with privacy in the front — there is no porch or image window — and the residing area oriented to the yard, enchantment to anyone living by itself, retirees who really don’t want stairs and a relatives needing three, four or 5 bedrooms, states Swenson.

People today may perhaps to start with drop for the look: Glass walls increase to vaulted ceilings protected in wood planks. Most Rummer-crafted homes have inside atriums, possibly open up to the sky or capped by a see-by way of ceiling. Pure mild conveniently filters into rooms stripped of unneeded good inside walls.

Occupants also recognize the livability elements. Some of the first galley kitchens have been renovated — partitions removed, appliances relocated — to link seamlessly to the dining and living rooms or ignore the atrium.

As with all real estate, spot is a variable in the marketplace benefit. Rummer constructed on larger sized tons, generally adjacent to wooded spot. The premier concentrations of Rummer residences are in Back garden Home’s Bohmann Park tract adjacent to Fanno Creek or Beaverton area’s Oak Hills Historic District.

“The neighborhoods are properly set up,” suggests Swenson.

From the 1960s by the 1980s, architectural historians estimate Rummer crafted 700 to 750 housing models in Portland, Beaverton, Lake Oswego, Clackamas, Gresham and other spots, which include traditional-type homes.

About 200 are in the Eichler style, as designed by architect A. Quincy Jones.

Every of the modern day Rummer homes, which are about 1,850 sq. ft or a very little much larger, was meticulously located, ordinarily on a quarter-acre ton, to increase indoor-outside residing.

Rummer price ranges have risen alongside with the Portland metro region, but purchasers are devoted to the Rummer “brand,” claims Swenson. “I can get 5 or more provides, and a good deal of the persons writing gives arrive again and produce on other Rummers, which is an indication that they are waiting patiently for their Rummer.”

In 2018, Rummer-built residences on the industry sold, often swiftly, for close to $600,000 to $700,000, depending on the location, situation and sizing.

In 2019, selling prices rose to the $850,000 variety. “I try to remember pondering, ‘Wow, which is finding up there,’” states Swenson. “Then at the conclude of 2021, a number of went for additional than $1 million.”

Swenson bought a restored and renovated Rummer-created home on a wooded ton in Beaverton’s Highland Park area for $1,004,508 in September 2021.