This seems ambitious

(Original photo of back yard has been swapped out, because I’m a nice guy. The original may still be up on the listing, at least for now, and you can go there to make sense of some of the comments)

(Original photo of back yard has been swapped out, because I’m a nice guy. The original may still be up on the listing, at least for now, and you can go there to make sense of some of the comments)

8 Boulder Brook Road, new construction, has hit the market at $6.495 million. It’s your standard 8,500 sq. feet above ground, 2,500 below, on an acre-plus. Nice enough, if this sort of thing is your taste, but if it is, I’d look next door to 16 Boulder Brook, which sold new in 2007 for $5.8 million and whose listing just expired September 3rd at $4.495, after starting off in 2016 at $5.795. It was in excellent condition last time I peeked, and at, say, the low-fours, you could get what’s essentially the same house as number 8 without paying the new house premium. And 16 has a pool.