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What You Get for ... $600,000

A two-bedroom one-and-a-half bath town house in Hollywood is on the market for $599,000.Credit...Michal Czerwonka for The New York Times

LOS ANGELES

WHAT: A two-bedroom one-and-a-half bath town house in Hollywood

HOW MUCH: $599,000

INTERIOR: 1,330 square feet

PER SQUARE FOOT: $450.37

SETTING: This three-level home is one of eight in a bungalow complex built by Paramount in the 1920s as housing for its writers, according to the listing agent.

The complex is in a mixed-use neighborhood about a mile south of the intersection at Hollywood and Vine, where there are plenty of shops and restaurants. Arclight Cinemas complex, a movie theater with a seating-reservation system, a cafe and bar, no ads (other than trailers), and a no-latecomers policy, is eight blocks away.

INSIDE: Recent renovations include custom window treatments, light fixtures and a new finish on the first-level floors. The main living room has an 18-foot angled ceiling with a skylight, a kiva-style fireplace and windows that run nearly floor-to-ceiling. The second floor has a master suite. On the third level is a second bedroom currently used as an office. It has a skylight, sitting area and built-in storage. Floors are wooden downstairs and carpeted on the second and third levels. The unit comes with a parking spot in a private, detached garage.

OUTDOOR SPACE: A fenced-in wood deck, accessible from the kitchen, and a shared courtyard.

TAXES: $6,888.50 a year; homeowner association dues: $340 a month, including water

CONTACT: Elisa Gil-Osorio, Sotheby’s International Realty (310) 308-4287; 6204banner.com

PAHOA, HAWAII

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A three-bedroom two-bath house and a one-bedroom cottage with an adjacent bathhouse in Pahoa, Hawaii, is on the market for $599,000.Credit...Susan Seubert for The New York Times

WHAT: A three-bedroom two-bath house and a one-bedroom cottage with an adjacent bathhouse

HOW MUCH: $599,000

INTERIOR: 1,590 square feet

PER SQUARE FOOT: $376

SETTING: This house is on two and a half acres in a low-density residential area that backs up to Nanawale Forest Reserve, a swath of state land about three miles long and almost a mile wide (including an 18-acre forest of “trees” formed by lava solidified around tree trunks that later burned away).

Pahoa has small farms and fewer than 1,000 residents. It’s about an hour from the international airport in Hilo, and a half mile from the Pacific Ocean.

INSIDE: The cabin is octagonal, centered on a living room with vaulted, skylighted ceilings. Most of the wood — including Ohia and eucalyptus — was harvested locally (including some from the property itself). The house is supported by pillars of lava rock. In addition, the seller — also the house’s designer — used solar power and nontoxic chemicals throughout, and plaster instead of drywall.

Both the master bedroom and the living room have decks. The main-level bathroom has a soaking tub. The second bedroom is also on the main level. A third bedroom and bath, on the lower level, has tiled floors and its own entrance.

A one-bedroom cottage, two minutes’ walk from the main house and almost entirely out of view, also has a kitchen, a screened-in porch and a detached bath house.

OUTDOOR SPACE: Decks off the main house’s living room and master bedroom, a private lanai off the master bedroom, and about two and a half acres of forest backing up to state land.

TAXES: $2,995 a year

CONTACT: Rachel Nack, Century 21 All Islands (808) 938-3530; rachelnack.com

WESTPORT, CONN.

WHAT: A two-bedroom two-bath house in a converted 19th-century barn

HOW MUCH: $599,000

INTERIOR: 1,681 square feet

PER SQUARE FOOT: $356

SETTING: This converted barn is on a back lot — behind the house to which the barn originally belonged — off a two-lane road a mile from Main Street in Westport. The barn is accessible only by a private lane.

Westport, population, 26,000, is on Long Island Sound; it is semirural in setting but within commuting distance of New York City. Once an artists’ colony (where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald summered), it is now an upper-class suburb with well-regarded public schools and a multiyear wait for parking permits at the local train station. This house is under 10 minutes from the Merritt Parkway, I-95 and the Metro-North train, and an hour from Midtown Manhattan.

INSIDE: The barn was converted to a residence sometime during the 1940s, according to the seller. Many details — including leaded windows, siding and interior beams — are original. The dining and living rooms, and a library alcove off the living room, are paneled in chestnut and pine.

A guest suite has a bedroom with a fireplace and sink (left over from a kitchenette the owner removed when she bought it), as well as a bathroom and a sitting area/family room. The suite also has a separate entrance. The upper level — the barn’s original hayloft — holds the master bedroom and a bathroom. The basement is unfinished; the detached garage holds two cars.

OUTDOOR SPACE: A courtyard in front of the house with an outdoor cast-iron stove, a fenced-in backyard, beds planted with perennials and evergreens.

TAXES: $7,300 a year

CONTACT: Jeanette Salfeety, for sale by owner (203) 722-1275; fisbo.com

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