Roberta Lane sale
/11 Roberta Lane Asked $2.250 million in December, accepted $1.9 in May. One-acre in the RA-1 zone, desirable street: Gentlemen, start your bulldozers.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
11 Roberta Lane Asked $2.250 million in December, accepted $1.9 in May. One-acre in the RA-1 zone, desirable street: Gentlemen, start your bulldozers.
just don’t kick me
Will anyone notice?* Any price cut in this development, these days, is unusual, but 28 North Ridge Road has been on the market for a full 30 days now at $2.8 million, so dropping it to $2.6 makes sense.
Decent-lookinghouse and location, it’s probably modular-built (the 2-story foyer is a hallmark of that type of construction) but there’s nothing at all wrong with that. Building a house in a factory, in a weather-controlled environment using computer-guided machines can make more sense than having a drunk with a hangover and a skill saw trying the same feat in a sleet storm. Besides, except for Jaguars, which come out of the factory unfinished and already falling apart, when was the last time you saw anyone assembling a new car in a customer’s driveway?
*Okay, that’s a fairly obscure reference, I suppose. Look up Bishop Berkeley.
Sale:
55 Long Meadow Road, Riverside NoPo, full asking price of $1.895 million. It was on the market for 49 days before finding a buyer, and that’s a long time in this market — it didn’t used to be – so I thought it might go at a discount, but they got their price, and good for them.
It was probably the guest cottage in the backyard that made the difference.
Under Contract:
18 Maple Drive in Old Greenwich, 14 days on market. Asking price $849,000, it’s a 2-bedroom, 1 bath, 1,274 sq. ft. 1949 home on 0.10 of an acre. Smallsh for Greenwich, but it’s a perfect low maintenance down-sizer; heat it with a couple of incandescent light bulbs, cool it by propping an ice cube-filled wet towel in front of a window fan, and don’t worry about the lawn care workers’ sudden retreat to Mexico, you can trim this one with a pair of tweezers. Did I mention that it’s convenient to transportation? Well it is.
at least there’s no food shortage in the Land of lincoln
"Look, we are welcoming city ordinance," Johnson said. "Our local police department will not ever cooperate with ICE, whatever their constitutional authority is. That is obviously relegated to the Trump administration. All of our sister agencies, city departments have been thoroughly briefed by a corporate counsel, and I'll pass it over to her in a second about what they can and cannot do."
…. Johnson said that Chicagoans should "rise up" against ICE.
The City of Chicago has allowed in over 51,000 illegal immigrants from the southern border since August 31, 2022.
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Several news reports indicate that Chicago has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on services for immigrants and asylum seekers since August 2022
. As of February, Chicago spent $638.7 million on migrant aid, according to FOX 32 Chicago.
This money has been allocated from several sources including:
The American Rescue Plan Act: $94 million.
The City Corporate Fund: Over $268 million.
Cook County Asylum Seeker Grant: Over $36 million.
Federal Health Grant: Over $1.5 million.
FEMA Asylum Seeker Grants: Over $87 million.
State Asylum Seeker Grants: Nearly $150 million.
The expenditures have gone towards various services, including housing, food, and healthcare. The city's 2024 budget set aside $150 million for migrant care, according to WTTW. Chicago has struggled to manage the influx of individuals, particularly as a self-described "welcoming city" with policies that impact its ability to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Illinois is projected to spend $2.5 billion on migrants by the end of 2025, according to a report, says FOX 32 Chicago. Much of this is driven by healthcare costs.
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The good news is that you’re going to the aquarium, the bad news is you’ll be going as bisque
After trying to unload it since he completed it in 2019, the builder of 232 Valley Road has again reported that it’s under contract. Current ask is $3.399; he had a previous deal in 2022 when the price was $2.450, but although it went from contract to pending, it went no further. This time may be be different.
It’s not that this is a bad house, but the fact that they’d need a pogo stick to reach it from the street seems to have discouraged buyers.
That original 2019 price was $2.999 million, if you’re keeping track.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: New concealed carry burdens heaped on law-abiding Coloradans.
A state law in effect as of July 1 layers on new education and training burdens for obtaining and renewing permits for the carrying of a concealed handgun in Colorado, this despite data suggesting permit holders are already an exceptionally responsible and law-abiding group.
House Bill 24-1174 passed along party lines in the Democrat-controlled legislature last year, and among other things significantly expands classroom training requirements to obtain a concealed handgun permit (CHP), to include a live-fire exercise and a written exam, with instructors “verified” by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The bill additionally requires a “refresher” class for the renewal of a permit, which includes the exam and live-fire mandates. Nowhere does the bill cite evidence of any issues arising from previous requirements, nor of CHP holders as committing acts of gun violence.
This is on top of the fingerprint-based background check already long required by law.
The in-person course, among other things, covers firearm handling, shooting and storage, as well as state laws on self-defense and purchasing, owning, or transporting a firearm. The course can be broken up into hourly increments if necessary.
Colorado concealed carry permits are valid for five years, and a CHP holder may renew their permit up to 120 days before expiration.
Despite a growing hostility towards CHP holders by the legislature and anti-gun rights groups, Colorado continues to see an uptick in concealed carry permits.
With Democrats dominating both chambers by two-to-one margins, the question isn’t whether they’ll come up with some new infringement, but how quickly — and how annoying.
29 Round Hill Road, or “Les Arrivistes”, as its listing agent insists on calling it, was renovated in 2007, put on the market that year at $18.5 million and sold in 2008 for $16.5. Those purchasers didn’t do as well as their seller when they put it back up for sale in 2013 at $18 million: it sat for years, unloved and wanted, until 2019, when the current owners appeared and paid them $9.3 million. At the wealth level that allows residential purchases in this range, a loss of $7.2 million was surely not calamitous, but it must have at least stung a bit.
So it could only have come as a relief to these owners and their agent when this time it only took 70 days: April to June 27th; and just one price cut, $17.450 to $16.5 million, to find a buyer. The property is now reported as pending, and we’ll soon find out how close it came to that ‘08 price.
160 Stanwich Road, a beautiful, fully-renovated 1936 home sold in a bidding war two years ago, final price $3.710 million on a $3.295 ask. Now those purchasers have put it back up for sale at $4.195. I guess we’ll find out if they overpaid in 2023.
19 Crescent Road, Riverside, priced at $3.750 million, sold for $3.950.
20 Dingletown Road, asked $3.750 million and did better than that.
39 Indian Mill Road, Cos Cob. Listed at $2.695 million, sold direct for $3.120.
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