Oh, stay put, would you?

98 Hunting Ridge Road has increased its price again and is now back to its original January ask of $2.9 million. I expressed doubt about that number when the house first hit the market (“29% gain in ten months? We'll see”) and at first that skepticism seemed to be borne out, because it dropped to $2.8 a month later. A deal was reported April 15th, then unreported April 17th. The price was then hiked to $2.865 on May 9th, and now it’s been bumped again. I assume that all this is because the owners are receiving multiple expressions of interest, and good for them, but it’s an unusual price progression.

The house was owned for many years by children’s author Mary Ann Hoberman and her architect husband Norman. Reading her obituary just now, I was dismayed to realize how old their daughter Diane is. She and I were classmates at GHS, and she invited me to the Sadie Hawkins dance senior year. Diane was a beautiful girl, so I assume her first date had to bail for some unexpected reason, but we had a great time anyway, although no sparks were lit. What I now find alarming is that, if Diane is as old as her own biography says she is, then so am I.
That went quickly.