Dreams Die Hard

124 Old Mill Road

Mel Gibson listed his house at 124 Old Mill Road in 2007 for $39.5 million in 2007 and finally sold it to its present owners for $24 million in 2010. They, in turn, listed it for $32.995 (why?) in 2012, and have been dropping that price slowly ever since. It hit $19.950 last year and is now reported as pending, though I expect its final sale price will be substantially lower than even the current ask.

Officially built in 1927, but much of it was constructed from old castles dismantled in England and shipped here, so I suppose someone can boast of a house built when there were still naked savages roaming the Greenwich woodlands.

It’s on 78 acres, four lots of 28, 17.7, 15, and another 15 acres, respectively, with the Merritt Parkway serving as its southern border. There was a plan afoot to build condominiums here, but our P&Z squelched it. But how thorough was that squelching, and does the new owner have further nefarious plans for all that land?

Stay tuned.