Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
I hear about them when they hit the MLS. This one, 23 Terrace Avenue, in Riverside, seems like a decent deal. $1.3 million, Gideon's realtorspeak, "a likely candidate for updating" should be interpreted as "total gut-job", but you could be all in here for maybe another $250 - $300,000, and you should be okay.
25 Midwood Road, in Deer Park, reports a contract. It did have to drop its price a bit, from $8.850 million to $7.950—a mere quibble— before it found a buyer, but back when it came on the market 9 months ago, the consensus on FWIW was that it was a gem.
This is classic Greenwich.
God bless her for the entertainment, but the Internet is forever, and one day, she may have to explain this to her kids
(PRESUMABLY that isn't Greenwich's own, Shep murray*, modeling the vineyard vines shirt, so he won't have to explain this photo, at least, to his own children)
Miss Dakota Payne, 19, arrested for indulging in sex on golf course.
UPDATE: I am so very, very sorry—I neglected to include the link to this heartwarming story. Fixed now.
* Shep, you won't remember, but we were once racing on an RYC sailboat, rail down, rail meat on the weather side, shirtless, and you looked me over and asked, "so, how old are you, Chris?" I said "40", and you said to Ian, "40—I guess that's not so bad." You Bastard! My only consolation is that, a quarter-century on, you're lucky if today you look like me back then. : )
71 Byram Shore road, asking $6.75 million, reports a contract.
We'll see when its closing price is reported. It started at $9.250 million two years ago, and depending on whether the buyer is interested in the house itself—dubious, in my opinion—or just the land, that last asking price will have been discounted accordingly. Waterfront, even in Byram, has always sold for impressive money: the houses on those lots, not so much.
New Yorker weekenders, I'd guess.
21 Upper Cross Road, 11 acres, $5.125 million. Our GMLS records show it as selling after just 13 days, for 100% of its asking price, but that's not the real picture. In fact, after paying $9 million for the lot in 2007, the owner put it back up for sale in 2013 at $10.5 million, a price that presumably was intended to recoup the money spent on site studies and architectural plans (or not—he may have spent nothing, and was under the mistaken impression that Conyers Farm land had increased since 2007), and has been on the market ever since, suffering the continuing indignity of successive price cuts, until he unloaded it at this final price.
I'll admit that it's cruel to call the buyer a dummy, and certainly he must have demonstrated financial acumen in the past to be able to afford to pay this much for land, but assuming he builds anything close to the Whadia design shown below, he's going to have sunk at least $10 million, probably more, into a neighborhood that's been losing value for the past ten years.
The rich are different from you and me—they have more money—and sinking this kind of money into a losing proposition may be perfectly acceptable to the buyer. "Plenty more where that came from" could be his thinking, and God bless him if it is. Just as lawyers adore clients with strong principles and deep pockets, we realtors love buyers with a firm idea of what they want and are willing to pay for it, regardless of cost.
But I at least would have cautioned him against it.
On the market since 2012, when it started at $3.295 million, 201 Clapboard Ridge, 7+ acres, has sold for $1.525.
I don't believe it's subdivisble, and there are wetlands, but all in all, a very nice property, on the Round Hill Road end of Clapboard Ridge. Overpricing didn't help here.
Okay, perhaps this one's a bit too far, patriot or not
Marine combat vets rejected for reenlistment because of tattoos.
I get, it, sort of, because I too hate tattoos, but times have changed, like it or not, and good combat vets are probably as rare as young people who haven't defaced their skin.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller has explained the reason for the Corps’ tattoo policy: “We are not in a rock and roll band. We are Marines. We have a brand. People expect a certain thing from us,” he told Marine Corps Times in February 2016.
16 Pleasant View Place, asking $1.575 million. It sold for $1.375 back at the what was then the peak of the market, but since then Havemeyer has recovered nicely and, although this one doesn't have much of a yard, it does have a great view, befitting the street's name, and is a perfectly decent home, in this price range. This is one of the prettier streets in the development.
Rachael Harris and paramour: woof!
I thought we've established that mere biology doesn't dictate sex or species. Where's the ACLU?
37 Londonderry Drive just sold for its last asking price, $4.195 million.
Nice house, horrible noise from the Merritt, though obviously the buyer's ears are different than mine. If he's really, really lucky, he'll find an equally-deaf buyer when he goes to resell it.
Bought it directly from the listing broker, so he probably got exactly what he deserved.
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