Dining room view to loft Common house entrance and fountain

Sunny Emeryville Cohousing Condo
2 bdrm / 1 bath for SALE BY OWNER

Find your community living in a spacious, sunny, loft-style condo at Doyle Street Cohousing. Your top-floor unit has large windows, high ceilings, skylights, hardwood and tile floors, and a renovated bathroom. Our diverse, multigenerational community consists of twelve private homes with many shared amenities, in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area.

We invite interested parties to check out the community at one of our dinners or community meetings.

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Master bedroom

Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms

Bathroom

Bathrooms

1 Full Bath

Dining room and kitchen from loft

Size

1,350 sq ft

Living room

Price

$799,000

Currently tenant-occupied: The current resident is in the process of buying a home and will move out within 3–12 months. We're looking for buyers open to a short rent-back — meaning rental income from day one and a graceful transition for everyone. Full details below.

Location

5514 Doyle Street, Unit 5, Emeryville, CA 94608

Is Cohousing For You?

If you've ever wished you knew your neighbors better or wanted a built-in community without sacrificing your own space and privacy, this might be exactly what you've been looking for.

Doyle Street cohousing builds community intentionally through optional shared meals, planned and spontaneous community-building activities, and caring for our shared spaces together.

About Doyle Street Cohousing

Common house entrance and fountain

Doyle Street Cohousing functions as a village to foster connection. Our diverse community consists of twelve private homes where residents participate in the life of the community through cooking, dining, maintaining shared facilities, and playing together.

Community Dinners

Optional dinners twice a week in the common house, with rotating cooking responsibilities (approximately every 6-8 weeks)

Shared Responsibilities

About 6 hours a month in total — all scheduled in advance. That breaks down to 4 hours of community maintenance, a 1.5-hour monthly HOA meeting, and 12 hours per year — divided as you see fit — of shared communal workdays.

Community Governance

Every adult resident is a full voting member of the Doyle Street Cohousing Association (DSCA)

Wondering if Doyle Street Cohousing is the right fit?

Read Our Mission & Values

Property Details

Unit Features

  • Loft-style top floor unit
  • High ceilings with skylights
  • Large windows for natural light
  • Hardwood and tile floors
  • Cozy wood-burning fireplace
  • Office nook
  • Charlie battery-powered induction range & oven
  • Sleek bathroom renovation (2021)
  • Radiant heated floors
  • Extra-deep bathtub
  • Self-cleaning toilet with bidet
  • HOA: $659/month

Community Amenities

  • Hot tub
  • Community gym with Peloton bike & weight bench
  • BBQ grill and patio dining area
  • Ping pong table
  • EV charging stations
  • Laundry room
  • Bike storage & workshop with shared tools
  • Common house for private & community events
  • Patio, garden, and deck
  • Storage
  • Parking for one vehicle (11 months/year) with ample street parking

Location

  • Centrally located in the Bay Area
  • Doyle Street Greenway Bike Route
  • Close to restaurants & shopping
  • Near parks & dog park
  • Public transit access
  • Walking distance to Bay Street
  • Near Pixar
  • Close to Berkeley Bowl West
  • Near Emeryville Marina

Sale Information

⚠️ Currently Tenant Occupied

The current tenant is in the process of purchasing a home elsewhere. We prefer to sell to buyers willing to rent back to tenant until tenant closes on new home (estimated 3 months - 1 year). Terms of new lease would be negotiated with tenant.

Rental income available until current tenant departs.

Sale Details

  • Asking Price: $799,000
  • Sale Type: Brokerless sale desired (by owner)
  • Disclosures: Full disclosure package available including financial disclosures of DSCA
  • Inspections: During escrow by appointment
  • Process: Contract, escrow and title transfer will occur under boilerplate legal procedure

Community Oriented Process

For buyers considering making an offer, we invite you to join us at a community meal and one of our monthly HOA meetings to get to know your future neighbors and catch a glimpse of community life.

About Us

The owners

The ten years we spent living in Doyle Street cohousing are filled with happy memories. From spontaneous game nights to community dance parties, movies in the common house, water balloon fights in the parking lot, and on one particularly memorable occasion a pig roast complete with fire spinning, we cherish the connection and community that is unique to cohousing.

This community is important to us. It is our goal to make the sale process as human as possible while still adhering to standard protocols and protections for all parties involved. We are looking for a buyer who shares the values intrinsic to cohousing and genuinely desires to live in community.

Interested?

Contact the Owners Here