A busy day for closings

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Windrose Way (artist’s impression)

6 Windrose Way, reported as pending yesterday, closed today at $16.175 million. Buyer’s agent Charles Patermina wrested an $800,000 discount from the sellers’ ask of $16.900 million. Hey, every penny counts. Buyers from Miami Beach

34 Turner drive

34 Turner Dive has also sold for full price, $10.950 million. Never on the MLS, worked out agent-to-agent. Scarsdale buyers.

10 Francine Drive, listed at $5.1 million, sold for $5.725. Zip code of buyer not disclosed. Possibly from Iran?

8 Cherry Blossom Lane, full price, $4.9 million. Manhattan (10013) buyers.

Just sayin'

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271 Greenwich Avenue, Unit 3D

May 23,2025: $2,450 OLD WORLD CHARM MEETS NY CHIC! FABULOUS, SUNNY ONE BEDROOM IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN GREENWICH! HARDWOOD FLOORS THROUGHOUT, HIGH CEILINGS, SCONCES, GRANITE KITCHEN, LAUNDRY ON PREMISES. CLOSE TO SHOPS, RESTAURANTS, TRAIN AND ISLAND BEACH FERRY JUST IN TIME FOR SUMMER! HEAT AND HOT WATER INCLUDED! THIS ONE WON'T LAST!

June 20, 2025: Price reduced to $2,350

The Democrats and the Republicans did Trump a huge favor when they killed this pervert’s nomination for AG

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“Does this face make me look dumb?”

(Arabic people make up about one-fifth (twenty percent) of the population of Israel and Arab citizens share all the same legal rights as Jewish Israelis. Arab Israelis enjoy complete freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to educate their children in their tradition. They receive identical social welfare benefits as other Israelis. They are entitled to municipal services and have municipal voting rights. Arab citizens of Israel are distinct from Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, though.)

Related/unrelated:

In looking for the reason Trump nominated this fool in the first place, I found an AP report from November 14 2024 “Gaetz pick shows value Trump places on loyalty — and retribution — as he returns to Washington”, containing this gem:

The rhetoric from Trump reflects an about-face in approach from President Joe Biden, who has repeatedly taken a hands-off approach from the Justice Department even while facing a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified information and as his son, Hunter, was indicted on tax and gun charges.

Ahem:


December 1, 2024:

Biden gives son Hunter 'unconditional' pardon

January 20, 2025

Biden pardons his family members, Fauci, Milley and Jan. 6 committee members and staff

WASHINGTON — Hours before his four-year term ended, President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons early Monday to several officials and lawmakers who have been the target of incoming President-elect Donald Trump’s threats of retaliation as well as several members of his family.

Biden pardoned retired Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, members and staff of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, and Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan Police officers who testified before the committee.

….[And] his two brothers James and Francis. Also on the list are Sara, the wife of James Biden, Biden's sister Valerie Biden Owens and her husband John T. Owens.

And then there’s this, from John Hinderaker at PowerLine:

June 19, 2025

Joe Biden’s DOJ at Work

We know now that Joe Biden and Merrick Garland corrupted and politicized the Department of Justice to a degree never before seen in American history. Biden’s DOJ went after the Catholic Church and parents who didn’t like what their school boards were doing, and that was shameful. But target number one for Biden’s DOJ was Biden’s biggest political rival, Donald Trump.

The Biden administration was a banana republic era in American history, in which our government weaponized law enforcement to try to imprison its most dangerous opponent.

Senator Chuck Grassley is the whistleblower’s friend, and he has done as much as anyone to expose the corruption of the Biden era. Most recently, he released a series of FBI emails in which agents plotted to try to find charges they could bring against Trump arising out the the filming of a video which January 6 protesters sang the National Anthem. Trump contributed a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. Biden’s FBI thought that Trump’s recitation of the Pledge might constitute a crime for which they could imprison him.

Details at the link, but suffice to say Biden did not take a hands-off approach to the DOJ. That was obvious from the day he took office, although toadies and lickspittles like the Associated Press denied it then and deny it to this day.

Pending in Mead Point

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There’s something oddly familiar with this design THAT I can’t quite PUT my finger on . I’ll have to mull it over.

6 Windrose Way, $16.990 million. Only on the market for 98 days, which is a huge improvement over the 900 days that elapsed during its previous foray On the market; it started then at $20.5 million in June 2018, and finally sold to these owners in 2024 for $14.8.

(Joe Barbieri continues to demonstrate his uncanny selling skills: he held on to that first listing the for full 900 days, got the commission from its sale, and barely a year later, those buyers chose to list with him, instead of the agent who’d represented them in their purchase. It helps, of course, that Joe is a very, very nice person, and a pleasure to work with; definitely one of the good guys.)

AHA! GOT IT! MONTANA!

Why hasn't this house sold? It has every possible amenity.

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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”.

The article itself is what I consider good journalism: objective, and presenting both sides. But the headline ....

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UPDATE: The DailyCaller has a different take on that decision and how to describe it:

Supreme Court Greenlights State's Child Genital Mutilation Ban

"BlueSky" was founded and positioned itself as "a place for open discussions, encouraging transparent and unmoderated political conversations, much like a town square". Tiananmen Square, it turns out.

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