Shocker: two below-ask sales

44-40 Mayo Avenue, Belle Haven, has sold for just $21.250 million on a guide price of $24.9. It’s comforting to know that there are still bargains to be had out there.

And a ranch house at 47 Husted Lane only fetched $6.650 million instead of its asked-for $7.450. That’s probably because it was described as “sun-filled” instead of “sun-drenched”. It’s not often that you see one of our finest professionals, Sally Maloney, make such a rookie error, but perhaps she was just being daring and stepping outside convention.