Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
30 Bote Road, asking $1.325 million, reports a contract. Back in February 2004, it was listed at $1.295 and sold immediately for $1.340. Those buyers turned around and sold it to these current owners six months later, unchanged, for $1,450,830. This time around, it was listed unsuccessfully at $1.695 in 2017, then came back this past May at $1.395, and has finally found a buyer.
Photo credit: David Ryan/Boston Globe
15 Old Mill Road, now $3.995 million, down from its first, 2018 price of $4.795. Owners paid $4.1 in 1999. The new listing today proclaims that it is “introducing” the property to the market, but that’s about as genuine as the historical plaque noting the home’s 1715 heritage. There was certainly a house here back then, and remnants still exist, but time and endless expansions have taken their toll.
Prediction: low $3s, high $2s.
Anything to do with the Royals falls below even the “bottom story of the day” category, but this illustration to an article, “Prince Charles, William, incandescent with rage” is pretty swell.
156 Stanwich Road, $2.875, pending after just 17 days. This was a very nice 1936 home back when it was last on the market in 2008-2009, but was in serious need of some updating. It sold to the present owners for $2.450 in 2009, and they did a fine job restoring it, as its quick sale attests.
For golfers, its location on GCC’s 18th hole means that you can slink home after a bad round, rather than subject yourself to humiliating ribbing in the club house. Lose, win.
18 Armstrong Lane, asking $2.3 million, after 55 days. The listing mentions the possibility of a two-lot subdivision, but I hope the full 0.7 acre is kept as one, if only for the neighborhood’s sake; it’s a beautiful lot.
And possibly for the buyer’s sake, too. Some years ago I advised a client/friend/builder against subdividing a one-acre lot in Riverside, pointing out that large lots have almost disappeared here, and a new house on one could command a premium. He went ahead and subdivided and built two nice houses, which we sold, but a few years later told me that, factoring in the costs, he’d have done as well or better building just one.
I don’t know how the math would work here for a developer, but if it’s a private owner buying this property, he could pay this much, build one, great home, and come out okay.
Coming your way
Elizabeth Warren vows to stop all building construction unless it’s carbon-neutral
Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) said Wednesday that her administration would mandate that any new buildings built from 2028 onwards must be carbon neutral.
"What scares me is every time you go back to the scientists, they tell you two things. It's worse than we thought and we have less time," Warren said during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe. [Glacier National Park has quietly replaced signs stating that its glaciers will have melted by 2020 - Ed] "That means we've got to be willing to do things, for example, like regulation. By 2028, no new buildings, no new houses, without a zero carbon footprint."
Warren also backed regulation that would make light-duty trucks and cars carbon neutral by 2030, and all electricity production carbon neutral by 2035. Additionally, Warren said she would prohibit any new drilling either on federal lands or offshore, and promised to make "environmental justice" a major focus of her fight against climate change. “On the day I’m inaugurated, I will ban all fracking, immediately”.
During a climate town hall in September, Warren said she would end license renewals of existing nuclear plants and stop the building of new ones.
I’ve got ABC on my side!
Joy Behar cheers Richard Spencer
Megan Fox, PJ Media:
I joked with the writing staff here when the story about Richard Spencer turning on Trump dropped earlier saying, "Watch, now. The left is going to endorse him." It didn't even take an hour. Joy Behar celebrated the famous anti-semitic Spencer, who advocates for breaking up the United States into racially pure states, on The View on Wednesday. The Babylon Bee is going to have to work much harder to satirize these people.
"There's some good news," Behar chirped cheerily. "Remember Richard Spencer, he's basically the organizer of Unite the Right the white nationalist group that was marching in Charlottesville that was all in for Trump? Not anymore!" she said, raising her arms in victory and smiling like a loon. Then she read Spencer's tweet that said he deeply regrets supporting Trump in 2016 and the audience cheered as Behar smiled and looked elated that a white supremacist joined her in her Trump Derangement Syndrome.
"Wow!" she said, continuing to beam like she had been given a new set of blackface paints.
Not all of Miss Behar’s fans were as enthusiastic:
I didn’t do it!
Teen snowboarders lost in Canadian backcountry claim they burned their homework to survive overnight
That’s more creative than any excuse I ever dreamed up — give ‘em an A for effort
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