$1.3 Million Homes in Oregon, Michigan and California

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TAXES$10,412 a year, plus a homeowners’ association fee of $154 every six months

CONTACTSean Z Becker, Sean Z Becker Real Estate, 503-444-7400; seanzbecker.com

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Birmingham, Mich.

WHATA 1929 house with four bedrooms and three full and two half bathrooms

HOW MUCH$1.295 million

SIZE3,191 square feet

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT$406

SETTINGThis two-story house is on a winding road lined with large, well-maintained homes, in a small, affluent city. Linden Park, which has a play structure and trail along the Rouge River, is steps away. The city center, with its cluster of restaurants, stores and movie theaters, is about a mile and a half away. The center of Detroit is about 20 miles southeast.

INDOORSA stone walkway leads to the main entrance, which has an arched wood door with a stained-glass panel. Inside, there are arched doorways, built-in shutters for most windows and hardwood floors. To one side of the foyer is a living room with a fireplace that connects to a study with built-in bookshelves. Straight ahead is the kitchen, updated several years ago with white cabinets and granite counters. Two steps down from the dining room is a sunroom that is a more recent addition, equipped with a dedicated furnace and French doors that open to the backyard patio.

A spiral staircase in a turret leads to the second floor, where the master bedroom has built-in cabinetry with granite counters along two walls, carpeting, a safe and an en-suite bathroom. Three other bedrooms and two full bathrooms are also on this level. Downstairs, the finished lower level has a family room with a fireplace, an office and a wet bar.

OUTDOOR SPACEThe driveway leads to a courtyard at the back of the house, which connects to an attached two-car garage. The 0.49-acre lot has many landscape features, including snaking hedges, numerous gardens, a patio with two seating areas and a koi pond with a stone retaining wall and fountain. There is also a brick garden shed in one corner of the backyard.

TAXES$14,791 a year

CONTACTAnne Hammond, Coldwell Banker Weir Manuel, 248-225-8214; cbwm.com

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Inglewood, Calif.

WHATA fully renovated 1948 live-work building with two bedrooms and one bathroom

HOW MUCH$1.325 million

SIZE1,599 square feet

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT$829

SETTINGThis house is in an urban area with a mix of residential and commercial buildings, about 11 miles from downtown Los Angeles and four from Los Angeles International Airport. A few steps away is the 55-acre Edward Vincent Jr. Park, with playgrounds, sports fields and a pool complex. A new Metro station is scheduled to open nearby in 2019, and a football stadium (for the N.F.L.’s Los Angeles Rams and Chargers) with a related entertainment complex is under construction about three miles away and is expected to open in 2020.

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INDOORSThe current owner, the founder of the landscape firm Jack Price Design, completed renovations this year, including new electrical, plumbing, roof, windows and doors. Dutch doors at the front of the house open to a studio and office with concrete floors. A doorway leads to a large living room with a high ceiling, skylights and a built-in platform along one wall that serves as both casual seating and a surface for displaying art and objects. Beyond is a kitchen with Ikea cabinets, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, a Thermador range and an Asko dishwasher, and two Dutch doors leading to the backyard.

A hallway with large sliding wood doors leads to the two bedrooms; they share a bathroom with a tiled wet room that has an open rain shower, hand shower and toilet.

OUTDOOR SPACE The 0.26-acre lot has been professionally landscaped, with pavers, citrus trees in planters, tables and a firepit made from weathered diamond-plate steel. There is a pebbled patio with built-in bench seating and a dining area, as well as steps leading down through a terraced garden to a potting area under shade cloth.

TAXESAbout $16,500 a year, depending on purchase price

CONTACTAnastasia Bowen, Benjamin Leeds, 310-994-3003; 404warren.com

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