Sell your house in the Tower District or downtown, as it sits.
The Tower District, ZIP 93728, is the oldest intact neighborhood in Fresno: 1920s and 1930s bungalows and Spanish houses around Olive and Wishon, the Tower Theatre, Fresno City College. Downtown and Chinatown, ZIP 93701, are smaller and thinner, with a few dozen house sales a year and the high-speed rail station planned on H Street.
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Casa Fresco buys for its own account. Nobody at Casa Fresco is your agent, and you may get more by listing; we say so when we think so. Sam Fox Brennan, California real estate broker, DRE #02178674.
Tower houses sold for a median of $315,000 in 2025, up 63% since 2019, on about two months of supply. The houses are charming and expensive to keep up: knob-and-tube wiring, galvanized plumbing, old roofs, foundations on dirt. A renovated Tower bungalow sells fast on the open market; one that has not been touched since the 1970s does not, because the buyers who want it cannot get a loan on it.
Downtown and Chinatown are a different market: $255,000 median on 33 sales, more than seven months of supply, and a station district the state is spending $250 million on. We buy there with a longer view, and we say so.
The figures
What sold here in 2025, so you can measure any offer, ours included, against the market.
| ZIP | 2025 median | Sales 2025 | 2019 to 2025 | $/sq ft | Months of supply | Typical rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93728 Tower District | $315,000 | 139 | +63% | $249 | 2.2 | $1,398 |
| 93701 Downtown and Chinatown | $255,000 | 33 | +80% | $224 | 7.3 | $1,238 |
What we are sent from here most
- A Tower bungalow nobody has updated We price the wiring, plumbing and foundation ourselves and buy it as it stands.
- A duplex or triplex near City College With the tenants in place, leases and deposits as they are.
- A downtown or Chinatown building Small mixed-use and residential buildings in 93701. Send the address.
- An estate house with the contents Common in the Tower. We clear it after closing and set aside what belongs to the family.
Questions
- Is a Tower District house better listed?
A renovated one, yes, and we will say so. An un-renovated one with knob-and-tube and an old roof is hard to finance and sits; that is where a direct sale makes sense.
- Do you buy near the high-speed rail site?
Yes. We are patient about downtown. Nothing we pay depends on the train arriving on schedule.
Send the address and what is going on with the house. You get a written answer, whether we would buy it and what we would pay, usually within two business days.
or call or text (530) 635-8196