Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
No, I didn’t watch the Mueller Circus — I have a life — so I won’t opine on whether or not he seemed befuddled and confused. But the MNBC hostess’s defense of his mental faculties: “he was perfectly capable of handling questions that only required a one-word answer” would seem to confirm the reports. That’s the best she could do in his defense?
And trucks; none help a home’s price. 3 Meadow Wood Drive, for instance, in Belle Haven, sold for $3.245 million in 2005. The buyers took it down to studs for a complete renovation and placed it back on the market in 2015 for $5.995. Today it dropped to $3.995, and it wouldn't be surprising if it eventually sells for hat 2005 price, and all those renovation costs lost.
It’s certainly a nice house, and heck, the town appraises it at $5,155,700, but the appriser wasn’t looking at it with an intention to buy. Those that have viewed it with a buyer’s eye have been turned off by the looming presence of I-95 in the backyard, and that’s not good.
I’ve noticed over the years that owners of houses subject to traffic noise acclimatize to it after a few months and, years later, when it’s time to sell, they refuse to discount for the roar they don’t hear. Unfortunately, buyers seeing the place for the first time do notice, and they get back in their cars and drive away.
So much better: modestly dressed, and empowered!
Miss America is leaving Atlantic City for the second time, trading one casino town for another in a move that caps a whirlwind of change at the nearly century-old pageant.
[The pageant’s 2017 leaders] were replaced by female leadership including former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, a former Miss America.
But state pageant organizations chafed under the new leadership and launched vocal protests against the new leadership, which vowed to move forward with changes designed to make Miss America more relevant and empowering to women.
The biggest change included the elimination of the swimsuit competition in favor of more in-depth contestant interviews.
Carlson has since stepped down.
The pageant’s departure from Atlantic City had been expected since the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority declined to renew subsidies for the pageant following last September’s competition [and zero ratings — Ed]
Prices continue to decline. For example, 350 Riversville Road sold new in 2007 for $3,187,900 and has been for sale or rented out since 2017, when it began at $2.950 million. Today it dropped to $2.150.
Not that the current owners are to blame, but a beautiful 1848 Italianate house sat on this lot until 2003, when a builder named Hatch bought it, scraped it and replaced it with this rather plebeian example of “a modern farmhouse”.
Bah.
101 Otter Rock Drive has closed at $3.950 million. The sellers paid $5.245 for it in November, 2014, and started off on this reselling adventure in January, 2017, at $5.475. I’m surprised that they got even this much, because pseudo-French Provincials aren’t in demand much here in Greenwich, and the land this one sits on is heavily compromised by its hilly topography and extensive wetlands. Its land is valued by the town at $2.7 million, and that’s about what I would have expected it to sell for.
But someone obviously liked the house, too.
But Rachael promised!
President Trump’s favored candidate Boris Johnson wins PM race in a landslide. This has the Leftists teetering; tomorrow, the same people are expecting Mueller’s testimony to trigger the impeachment and downfall of Trump himself.
We’ll be able to hear their heads exploding from up here.
You can run, but you cannot hide.
I mean, unless you show it exclusively at night, sooner or later the prospective buyer’s gonna see what it looks like. 444 Old Church Road, located at the busiest intersection north of the Post Road, has cut its price to $2.745 million, which is an improvement over 2016’s $3.249, but will it prove sufficient? To my taste, the location and the design work against this house, but taste is so personal that I wouldn’t dare pronounce judgment. After all, these owners bought it.
How low can you go?
20 Andrews Farm has dropped out of the $5 million bracket and is now asking $4.8750. In the last four years, it’s left the $7 million category behind (at $7.850, it was almost in the $8s back then), fallen through the $6s, then the $5s and now it’s in the 4s. There are a lot of houses in Greenwich locked in the same downward trajectory, so take our GAR reduction in inventory numbers with a grain of salt.
I have a feeling FWIW’s designated architectural critic Formerly 06830 might have an opinion on this design, but I’ll stay mum.
Bedroom, airplane hangar, or both?
100% plastic straws, with the proceeds going to Trump 2020. Collect ‘em, swap ‘em, give them to your liberal friends, if you have any left.
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