A (minor) miracle in the back country

62 Sumner Road, asking $2.995 million, has a pending deal after just 149 days on the market. Equally surprising, the owners paid $2.3 for it in 2001, so they seem to be coming out ahead. There have been a number of sales on Sumner Road this year, so it’s obvious that not everyone is turned off by the 45-minute commute to town. Good for them.

30 Will Merry

It’s mid, not back country, but I’ll note that 30 Will Merry Lane, $3.295 million, is also pending, after beginning last year at $4.490. I’m guessing that the final figure will start with a 2, and not a 3, but that’s just a guess.

Sold

15 E. Point Lane, Old Greenwich, has sold for $4.650 million. The seller paid $5.1 for it in 2005 when it was new, yet for reasons known best by him chose to set it out on the market at $7.450 in his first attempt to resell it in 2013. It kicked around in the following years, at varying, but always unrealistic prices, until Rob Johnso got the listing and lowered the owner’s formerly-great expectations. Rob’s good at that.

Mid Country contract

19 Andrews Road, discussed here in the comments section last week or so, is asking $2.950 million and is now reported under contract. Owners paid $4.6 for it in 2007, which proved to be a mistake, but at under three, this is a charming, 1928 home in a very convenient location. Some updating wouldn’t hurt, but again, at this price, the buyer’s probably safe spending the money.

Judicial Committee impeachment hearings to start off with dramatic burst

Four different lectures on constitutional law on tap. Con Law was a real snoozer back in school, but I’m sure the average American viewer will find it all fascinating.

Nadler’s strategy must be to build up to the crescendo, I guess.

UPDATE: Gee, even Jerry Nadler dozed off, and he’s the one who hosted the party!

That’s rude.

Old Greenwich sale

12 Innis Lane, south of the Village, $1.6 million. Started off in April at $1.995, last asking price was $1.795. A generic, 1970 builder’s special, typical of the era. Nothing much to say here, but it’s a useful data point, and for you shoppers out there, it’s often helpful to see where a house price ends up, and what an appropriate discount from the asking price might be.

How quickly they forget

With Kamala’s admission of failure, Liberals rage that only white people will now be on the debate stage

Pending in mid country

39 Perkins Road, $3.395 million, and after just 47 days on the market. 1959 construction, added on to in 2015. Nice back yard, though the house itself doesn’t knock me over. Then again, the only persons it had to appeal to were buyers, and they’ve spoken.

One oddity: the listing describes the house as “overall, an excellent alternative with many key attributes”. Alternative to what, a tipi?

I have no idea what purpose this room serves — certainly not a basketball court

Sad

Okay, now THIS is child abuse

The stuff from which nightmares* are made

16-year-old says teacher coerced him into oral sex

• Although, to modern ears in particular, nightmare might sound like something to do with a scary horse, the word actually has a different origin. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, nightmare derives from the Middle English (from the period 1150 to 1500) word ‘mare’, which meant a ‘female evil spirit thought to lie upon and suffocate sleepers’.

But we were promised that we couldn't drill our way out of the problem!

U.S. now net exporter of oil, first time in 70 years.

Fracking.

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