Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
It's never really gone away, in fact, even during recessions. 50 Byram Drive came on at $12.995 May 30 and found a buyer immediately. It closed yesterday for $12.650 million, which is close enough to full asking price as to make no never mind.
Look! A SQUIRREL!
I predicted less than month ago that the snowflakes' outrage over statues would last only until the next craze, and sure enough, the "Racist Trump is killing Puerto Ricans" bumped the statue kerfuffle off the agenda last week. Sunday's tragedy killed that meme, and this week it's "bump stocks", which even Dannel Malloy has discovered.
The attention span of the Left and its media partners grows shorter by the day.
RITU GOEL: "SORRY IF MY REMARKS OFFENDED ANYONE"
South Windsor real estate agent Ritu Goel withdraws from Town Council race after Facebook post.
A woman running for town council in South Windsor is withdrawing from the race following a controversial social media post about the Las Vegas shooting.
"Prayers for Las Vegas. People who are in favor of guns should have been on that strip,” Ritu Goel wrote.
Wednesday, she released a statement after receiving backlash.
“For the safety of my family I am withdrawing my candidacy for town council. I will also step down from the South Windsor Alliance for Progress because I do not want to jeopardize their great work. I am afraid for the safety of my kids, my husband and my mom who is just visiting. I have lived here for 23 years, and that beautiful life has been threatened. My professional life is at stake.
“We recently celebrated diversity in this town. But that is not what I have experienced in the last 24 hours. The calls I am getting not only insult me, but insult our diverse team running for Town Council.
"DIVERSITY"? Is the what you were celebrating? Perhaps you weren't referring to diversity of opinion. I truly regret that you feel you were "insulted" by people you'd wished were dead.
"Absolute horror and disgust that anyone could even think these things rather than put them in writing,” said South Windsor Mayor Carolyn Mirek.
Besides the town's mayor, people in the community also strongly criticized Goel's comments.
"I think it's a pretty awful thing to say. I do not support guns but I would never say anything like that,” said Gloria Ranney, of South Windsor.
"Even if you don't agree with gun rights I don't think it's ok to say they should be dead,” said Jeff Dileone, of South Windsor.
"I just don't think she should be running for office,” Dileone said.
Goel is also a real estate agent with Dzen Realty.
She may have been associated with Dzen Realty up to now, but they seem to have parted ways, as this search for "Dzen Realty Ritu Goel" reveals::
22 Echo Lane
22 Echo Lane has closed at $2,202,500. This started at $2.995 million in 2012 and I remember touring it that day with fellow agents at its open house. We all agreed that it was a perfectly good house, but we also all agreed that it was wildly overpriced. The trouble with overpricing is that agents, and buyers, dismiss a house, and it drifts from memory. The occasional price drop might bring it back to the surface but basically, it's gone, for a long time.
Five years is a long time; fresh is good, stale is bad.
Well, that's settled
Naked, drunk Florida Man fired pistol and shotgun in the air "to see if they worked".
He's now in jail, presumably clothed in prison garb.
8 Deerfield Drive, a good-looking but tired house across and down the street a little bit from Greenwich Library, hit the market at $1.195 million in 2013 and was promptly sold via bidding war to this owner for $1.4 million. She renovated it over the next 15 months and returned it to the market in early 2015 at $3.825 million. Today that price was cut again, and it can now be yours for $2.5.
The property includes a separate lot on its 0.6 acres, so $2.5 seems pretty reasonable. The renovation was done decently, and if the home weren't right up against busy Deerfield I'm sure it would have sold before this, for more. I'd certainly prefer to live here than in one of those 151 Milbank condos.
Maybe a rental?
I might want to get rid of some of the asphalt
33 Meeting House Road, on the market since 2009, when it started at $8.995, is now down to $4.995. Nothing wrong with the house itself, but there's plenty wrong with the street..
Bonus: it back's up to Steve Cohen's house on Crown Lane, so if you're nice, maybe you can play hockey there.*
*If it's still there — I seem to recall hearing he removed it after his kids grew up. Tea, perhaps.
UPDATE: I just heard from listing agentJoe Barbieri that the Licata mess that has so damaged value on this street (some streets have gated guard houses, others have impressive stone pillars, Meeting House has Licta's abandoned pink elephant) is under contract and will be completed by the buyer. I can't imagine why, but nonetheless, it will be an impressive, albeit different (Spanish mission style) mansion, and it will cease being such a downer. If so, then 33 Meeting House probably represents a real value at its current price. Nowhere to go but up.
151 Milbank Avenue
The failed four-unit condo project at Milbank, each originally listed for around $3.5 million back in 2014 and then lost to foreclosure, went to auction a few weeks ago, and is now reported sold for $2 million per unit, the reserve price, all to one buyer.
43 Richmond Hill Road, built in 2004, finally sold for $4.9 million in '06, resold again in 2014 for $3.7, has been back up for sale for a while now, starting at $3.995 and, today, dropping to $3.595.
Catch a falling knife.
A perfect resting place between trips to Hawaii and Vail
Finally proud to be an American, Michelle and Barry are scouting out the East Side for $10 million co-ops. This will bookend nicely with their newly-purchased $8 million D.C. digs but, as the former First Couple's spokesman Garret Morris points out, "their primary residence in Kenya cost just fifteen-bucks, including a couple goats, so these things balance out".
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