An above-ask sale in Balliwood

10 Balliwick Woods Circle, priced at $1.995 million, has sold for $2.250.

This development has a tennis/swim club that celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. There’s an interesting history of the club’s founding here. Interesting, because it details the reason for its founding, which was that, back in the ‘60s, all of our finest clubs were “restricted” which meant, in gentlemen’s terms, no Jews, blacks, or any other “others”. Standards had slipped as early as the 1950s, and a few Irish were admitted in limited numbers, but otherwise, if you wanted to join a club and you hadn’t prepped, you were advised to start your own.

So this group did.