The bedroom has wood laminate floors and a walk-through closet to bathroom with cultured marble vanity and combination tub and shower.

The unit also has a closet with stacked washer and dryer, a deck with storage and one assigned parking spot in the covered garage.

Built in the mid-1980s, this is one of the newest condo developments in the area, Santilena says.

What else you can get for $200,000
Oakland homebuyers with $200,000 to spend don't have it easy, says Anne Bruff, president of the Oakland Association of Realtors, director with the California Association of Realtors and owner of Anne Bruff & Associates. But "there are some options," she says.

In Oakland, $200,000 will buy a two-bedroom, one-bath condo with 1,000 to 1,200 square feet "in a not-great neighborhood," she says. Or you can go a little smaller -- 900 square feet or less -- and get a "very nice" 20- to 30-year-old one-bedroom unit, or a small, new downtown loft, she says.

The single family housing stock in Oakland "is older -- normally from the 1930s," Bruff says. "These are older houses, little bungalows."

A spacious newer house goes for $700,000 and up and new homes sell for $1 million and up, Bruff says.