Welcome Home! This home features 2 bedrooms with closets and a possible 3rd bedroom without a closet or use as a playroom or office plus 1.5 baths! Enter the home into a quaint entryway that opens to a large room that can be used as a dining room or living room, you decide! The kitchen offers white cabinets and a dishwasher, range and refrigerator. The large family room in the back of the home has french doors that lead out to the private fenced in yard and covered deck. The interior doors are solid wood. This home offers multiple possibilities and you can move right in! Roof, drywall, wiring, furnace, central air, and water heater completed in 2012. Centrally located and affordable with a great price!
Sold for $50,000
$50,000
705 W Franklin Ave, Effingham, IL 62401
2beds
1,458sqft
Single Family
Built in 1959
6,534 Square Feet Lot
$129,600 Zestimate®
$34/sqft
$1,530 Estimated rent
Home value
$129,600
$102,000 - $156,000
$1,530/mo
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Facts & features
Interior
Bedrooms & bathrooms
- Bedrooms: 2
- Bathrooms: 2
- Full bathrooms: 1
- 1/2 bathrooms: 1
Heating
- Forced air, Gas
Cooling
- Central
Appliances
- Included: Dishwasher, Garbage disposal, Refrigerator
Features
- Replacement Windows, Smoke Alarm
Interior area
- Total interior livable area: 1,458 sqft
Property
Parking
- Parking features: Garage - Attached
Features
- Exterior features: Vinyl
Lot
- Size: 6,534 sqft
Details
- Parcel number: 0316023032
- Zoning: RES
Construction
Type & style
- Home type: SingleFamily
- Property subtype: Single Family
Materials
- Frame
- Foundation: Crawl/Raised
- Roof: Asphalt
Condition
- Year built: 1959
Utilities & green energy
- Water: Public
Community & neighborhood
Location
- Region: Effingham
Other
Other facts
- Appliances: Dishwasher, Disposal, Refrigerator, Oven
- Cooling: Central
- Interior Features: Replacement Windows, Smoke Alarm
- Lake Front YN: 0
- Master Bath YN: 0
- Numberof Fireplaces: 0
- Possession: At Close
- Roof: Shingle
- Sewer Desc: City Sewer
- Basement YN: 0
- Foundation Type: Crawl
- Water Source: Public
- Heating: Forced Air, Gas
- Laundryon Main YN: 1
- Masterbedroomon Main YN: 1
- Property Sub Type: Single Family
- Road Surface Type: Concrete, Gravel
- Numof Rooms: 7
- Exterior Features: Fenced Yard, Deck
- Zoning: RES
- Water Heater: Gas
- Tax Exemption: Homestead
- Restrictions YN: 0
- Style: Bungalow
- Garage Spaces: 0.00
- Porch: Deck
- Tax Amount: 1839.00
- Tax Year: 2020
- Road surface type: Concrete, Gravel
Price history
| Date | Event | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11/5/2025 | Sold | $50,000-50%$34/sqft |
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| 11/10/2021 | Sold | $100,000+0.5%$69/sqft |
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| 10/28/2021 | Pending sale | $99,500$68/sqft |
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| 10/7/2021 | Contingent | $99,500$68/sqft |
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| 10/5/2021 | Listed for sale | $99,500+15%$68/sqft |
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| 6/26/2019 | Sold | $86,500-1.1%$59/sqft |
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| 5/24/2019 | Pending sale | $87,500$60/sqft |
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| 5/15/2019 | Listed for sale | $87,500$60/sqft |
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| 4/3/2019 | Pending sale | $87,500$60/sqft |
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| 4/2/2019 | Listed for sale | $87,500$60/sqft |
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| 3/30/2019 | Pending sale | $87,500$60/sqft |
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| 3/18/2019 | Listed for sale | $87,500+6.1%$60/sqft |
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| 8/17/2016 | Listing removed | $82,500$57/sqft |
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| 8/17/2016 | Listed for sale | $82,500+5.8%$57/sqft |
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| 8/12/2016 | Sold | $78,000-5.5%$53/sqft |
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| 6/28/2016 | Pending sale | $82,500$57/sqft |
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| 6/16/2016 | Price change | $82,500-2.9%$57/sqft |
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| 6/7/2016 | Listed for sale | $85,000+80.9%$58/sqft |
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| 9/3/2015 | Sold | $47,000+46.9%$32/sqft |
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| 10/25/2011 | Sold | $32,000$22/sqft |
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Public tax history
| Year | Property taxes | Tax assessment |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,821 -8.5% | $32,960 -6.4% |
| 2023 | $1,990 +8.1% | $35,230 +9% |
| 2022 | $1,840 -2.4% | $32,320 +1% |
| 2021 | $1,886 | $32,000 +2.9% |
| 2020 | -- | $31,100 +1% |
| 2019 | $1,800 +4.3% | $30,790 +4% |
| 2018 | $1,725 +2.3% | $29,610 +2% |
| 2017 | $1,687 | $29,030 +3% |
| 2016 | -- | $28,180 +3% |
| 2015 | -- | $27,350 +14.1% |
| 2014 | -- | $23,970 +2% |
| 2013 | -- | $23,500 +1.5% |
| 2012 | -- | $23,160 +376.5% |
| 2010 | -- | $4,860 -73.6% |
| 2009 | -- | $18,420 |
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Neighborhood: 62401
Nearby schools
GreatSchools rating
- NASouth Side Grade SchoolGrades: 1-2Distance: 0.8 mi
- 6/10Effingham Junior High SchoolGrades: 6-8Distance: 0.4 mi
- 8/10Effingham High SchoolGrades: 9-12Distance: 0.8 mi
Schools provided by the listing agent
- District: Effingham Dist. 40
Source: The MLS. This data may not be complete. We recommend contacting the local school district to confirm school assignments for this home.
- Illinois
- Effingham County
- Effingham
- 62401
- 705 W Franklin Ave
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