The Post-Gazette featured 50 properties for sale in 2010, and variety being the spice of life, the homes came in all shapes, sizes and price ranges. A few were decidedly ritzy — a 7,300-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa in Murrysville was offered in October for nearly $1.3 million. Others were more modest, with asking prices well below the average home price in Pittsburgh of about $152,000.

Here, we revisit a dozen of the most interesting to see what sold and what’s still lingering on the market:

The oldest property featured was a three-room log cabin in Ambridge. Built around 1780 in nearby Economy, it was dismantled in the 1980s and moved to its current location on 13th Street near the Old Economy historic district, where it was converted into office space. It was featured in November 2009 and has hardwood floors throughout, a red brick fireplace and an antique cider press in the loft.

A sluggish economy made for tougher commercial sales in 2010. So despite its bargain price of $95,917 — $30,000 less than the current owner paid for it in 2003 — no offers came in and the two-story house was taken off the market this fall. Scott Fosnot of RE/MAX Select Realty says the seller remains hopeful.

“If anyone would like to purchase it, it’s still out there,” he says.

Information: 724-494-6085.

Prefer quirky to historic? A two-bedroom dome on Olivant Place in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood, featured in January for $36,900, fit that bill to a “T” (or should we say “U”?). The blizzard that buried the city in almost a foot of snow in February wreaked havoc on the foreclosed property, already plagued by a mold problem. The plumbing burst, spilling water inside for “days and days and days,” says Libby Sosinski of Keller Williams Realty.

Still it managed to find a buyer: A real estate investor picked it up for just $6,500 in May.

Even when they’re in great condition, churches can be notoriously difficult to sell: Redevelopment costs are typically high and there are usually challenges with parking, financing and zoning. The seller’s prayers were answered, however, when the former First Methodist on Westinghouse Avenue in Wilmerding sold in March to Just Right Ministries for $53,000. When it was featured in the PG in October 2009, it was priced at $99,900.

Most sellers go the traditional route with a Realtor. Not Ann and Ron Phillips, who are determined to sell their lovingly restored Spanish Colonial on Moore Avenue in Hempfield on their own. It was in tip-top shape, with gorgeous landscaping, a new terra-cotta roof, updated mechanicals, original stained and beveled glass, and a brand-new Omnistone walkway.

It has not proved an easy task. Featured in June, the 5,000-square-foot house is still on the market, at the reduced price of $439,900.

“We just can’t figure it out,” says Mrs. Phillips. “It’s priced right, we have low taxes and we really slaved on it.”

She’s hoping things will be better this year. Information: 724-217-0300 or www.forsalebyowner.com, listing No. 22208485.

A house in the suburbs with the proverbial white picket fence isn’t the dream of every buyer, as two city properties that quickly sold demonstrate.

In Soho, a century-old, 14-foot-wide brick townhouse on Forbes Avenue was featured in February. One of several redevelopment projects of the Uptown Community Action Group, it sold for a few thousand dollars less than the original asking price of $89,900 in June. Realtor Tim Fabian chalked up renewed interest in Soho and Uptown at least partly to the construction of Consol Energy; the townhouse is just six blocks from the Penguins’ new home.

The blend of new and old also worked wonders for a renovated 1890s townhouse on Tripoli Street in the North Side’s Deutschtown neighborhood. After a story in June, two open houses drew hundreds of looky-loos. A buyer was to have closed on it yesterday for close to the asking price of $219,900, said Coldwell Banker agent Teekie Smith. Price, she says, was a factor.

“The sellers understood the market is what the market is.”

Good pictures, meanwhile, were the key in finding a buyer for a beautifully renovated century-old home on Hazelwood Avenue in Hazelwood, also featured in June.

“People got to see exactly what they got for the money,” says Virginia Arrington of Northwood Realty Services.

In addition to pretty landscaping, the house had an enclosed sunroom with transom windows and a cobblestone retaining wall. Listed for $115,000, it sold in July for $107,000.

A beautifully restored Victorian on North Avenue in East Washington, Washington County, also showed well, thanks to well-matched new woodwork, reproduction double-hung windows and modern colors that breathed life back into the 120-year-old structure.

“Absolutely adorable!” proclaimed Mary Dunbar of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services when the Queen-Anne style home was featured in January.

It sold for the original asking price of $149,900 in March.

Sometimes it takes putting your house on the market to realize why you bought, or in the case of Ray and Traci Zassick of Economy, built it in the first place. In 2006, the couple constructed a 2,600-square-foot log home on Nordham Road, expanding and customizing its stock design with Brazilian hardwood floors, a vaulted dining room and gourmet kitchen. Gorgeous, but too remote to raise children, they decided last year.

Featured in May with a $475,000 price tag, the house was taken off the market when the Zassicks realized they’d made a mistake in listing it.

“They decided they really liked it there,” says Kathy Seaton of RE/MAX North, “and chose to stay.”

The owners of a charming Dutch Colonial on Center Avenue in Elizabeth had no choice but to sell their home of 20 years: They are relocating for a new job. Graced with a wood-burning fireplace, stained glass, period-appropriate light fixtures (it was built in 1925) and a backyard pond and waterfall, the three-bedroom house — featured in October — is still for sale for $100,000.

“It has a decent amount of history, but the right person just hasn’t come along,” says Dick Charles of RE/MAX South.

Information: 412-884-2900 or www.southinc.com.

Man caves are all the rage these days. So you’d think the fact that a wonderfully restored Foursquare on Danvers Avenue in Ingram has one — equipped with a wood-burning stove, no less — would bring ’em running. Other sanctuary spaces in the three-bedroom house, featured in September, include a carpeted attic used for sewing and a paneled basement game room.

Realtor Stefani Jazudek has relisted the property, originally offered for $139,900, at $129,900.

“It’s a great house,” she says. “We thought for sure after the story it would sell.”

Information 412-262-5500 ext. 218 or www.howardhanna.com.

Nothing charms like a Sears, Roebuck catalog house. So Realtor Thomas Fitzurka of Coldwell Banker wasn’t surprised by the huge turnout at an open house following a March feature on a 1931 “Betsy Ross” bungalow on Curry Avenue in Wilkins, Despite that interest, the owner never found the right buyer.

Originally offered at $99,000, the house was taken off the market in early December. Mr. Fitzurka guesses the 1,4000-square-foot house may be too small for today’s buyer.

“It’s cute and nostalgic, but it was built in a different era,” he says.

Mr. Fitzurka expects to relist the bungalow sometime this month at the reduced price of $89,900.

Information: 412-521-2222 ext. 206 or www.pittsburghmoves.com.