Why hasn't this house sold? It has every possible amenity.
/2 Lakeview Drive, NoPo, has sat on the market for the past 50 days and yet to attract a buyer. Yesterday it dropped its price from $2.450 million to $2.350, and perhaps that will do it, but what gives? It has everything a customer could want. It has:
The Zebra:
The Orange:
Even the Goddamn Tipi (setting it on fire may have gone a bit too far, but it does offer reassurance that there are no local Siwanoys lurking about the premises)
Lakeview, naturally, affords no view of a lake, both because the neighboring trees would block any such view, and because of the lamentable lack of an actual lake to glimpse even were those trees to disappear. That bit of long-ago developer euphemism is neatly balanced, however: the house also abuts Sheep Hill Road, and there are no sheep on Sheep Hill.
Buyers should be flocking to it, no?
Joking aside, it’s actually a pretty nice house that was updated and expanded in 2013. If, however, my house hadn’t sold in nearly two months in this hot market, where there is practically no inventory and a surplus of buyers, I might have taken a more aggressive approach to a “price improvement”.