My two cents worth: the second one, on Covewood Drive, looks much nicer and in much better condition. I noticed that the first one looked like it had had cheap work done and that the front steps/deck were going to need redoing soon. It also looks like the lower level was in a potential flood plain so you might have gotten water/damp basement (perhaps even the reason for the electric baseboard - wonder if there was buried electric and/or other radiant heat in the ceiling or floors). The woods behind the Covewood Drive house are lovely, plus you are up high, so no flooding....
I'm not as impressed with the prices as the coasties are, I would have though they would be a touch lower or about where they are. Equivalent houses in the suburbs of Chicago (some suburbs, like say Munster or the southland in general) are similarly priced. Of course I'm jaded, I paid even less for my classic pre-war 6 co-op in a fairly high-priced area of Chicago..... (it was a wreck, one realtor who had shown and tried to sell it told me people couldn't imagine what it would look like it was so bad)
Just as a PS about Norway - EVERYTHING is electric - there is no natural or mains gas service anywhere that I'm aware of. Some people lately now that they are getting jaded have put in lp cookttops and the like. Oil heat wasn't uncommon/rare (but much less so that in Sweden where it was very normal until the '73 oil crises) but even in the pre-war era electric panel heating was standard (not the baseboards like we use however) - Oslo used to require that every apartment and house have a fireplace or wood stove for power outages, which are very rare (as in almost never).