And still toiling ...

11 Vineyard Lane ( Loaner Geländewagen courtesy of Mercedes of Greenwich)

11 Vineyard Lane is back, with a new broker and a slightly better price: $7.995 million, down from this past August’s price of $8.5. No other detectable change, except that The Zebra, having finished its meal of peacock, has been spread out in another room.

Original zebra combo

mr. zebra is now a member of the clean plate club

This is a very nice house, but it’s had a hard time selling. Way back when, a builder bought it with the intention of redoing it (it needed it), but there was a 3-acre building lot attached to it, which the builder intended to sell separately. No one wanted to buy the house with such a large unknown, and as I recall, it was only after that lot had been sold (for $2.5, in 2005), and a new, attractive house built in what proved to be an unobtrusive location, that the main building, now renovated, was put back up for sale in 2007, at the unlikely price of $17.950. Unlikely or not, the would-be seller raised the price to $21.950 in 2008 before finally selling it to the current owners for $9 million in 2009.

It’s been on and off the market since then, at various prices — some higher, some lower — beginning at $9.750 in 2014. I’m sure it will find a buyer eventually because it’s a beautiful, old 1930 Georgian (as that term is applied in Realtorease), renovated, on five great acres, on a good street.

What’s not to like, once the price is negotiated to the parties’ mutual satisfaction?