New listing south of the Village

53 S Park Avenue, $3.895 million. It has an odd, almost-vertical layout that’s probably off-putting at first, but it works. Still, that design has not done any favors to previous owners: the original builder tried for $2.777 million in 2008, and close friends of mine were able to buy it for just $1.425 in 2009, steps ahead of the sheriff and his foreclosure papers. They, in turn, after making some extensive renovations, put it up for sale in 2017 for $2.850 million and finally sold it to the present owners for $2.1 million in 2020.

It’ll probably do better this time.