Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
62 Sherwood Avenue, currently asking $3.650 million, which is what the owners paid for it 20 years ago. It began this time in July ‘19 at $4.495 million, though I’m not sure why.
Five acres, which is good, but Sherwood Avenue, which is not so good. 1936 house needs work.
The agent not only staged the house, but she also staged the garage! Nice work. And she even managed to find her own buyer, so no commission split: the Holy Grail for all us agents.
To the Rescue
DuckDuckgo and others launch an Internet privacy protocol for the entire web.
It can be added now to Safari (I just did) and Mozilla, and other browsers soon.
From what I can understand (and you can fit my tech knowledge in a thimble) it won’t be fully effective until the appropriate laws are passed, but they’re on some states’ agendas and should soon be fully enforceable. Until then, it appears it will offer some protection against sites selling your information to others.
A group of tech companies, publishers, and activist groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, and DuckDuckGo are backing a new standard to let internet users set their privacy settings for the entire web.
“Before today, if you want to exercise your privacy rights, you have to go from website to website and change all your settings,” says Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine.
That new standard, called Global Privacy Control, lets users set a single setting in their browsers or through browser extensions telling each website that they visit not to sell or share their data. It’s already backed by some publishers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Financial Times, as well as companies including Automattic, which operates blogging platforms wordpress.com and Tumblr.
21 Frost Lane, purchased for $5,036,624 in 2015 and on the market since March 2019 (starting price $5.250) dropped today to $4.495 million. Beautiful grounds, and the house itself appears to be in fine condition, but it’s my general observation that most of today’s younger buyers aren’t interested in 1929 homes. That’s their loss, I think, but it’s often the would-be-sellers loss, too.
31 Hillside Drive, asking $2.475 million. Owner paid $2.9 for it in 2008, just before prices crashed and, in this case, didn’t recover. The listing suggests a renovation project or tear down and start over; I think starting over would be the best thing to do, but certainly not the 10,000 sq.ft. the agent claims is allowed.
Pelosi wears her mask over her mouth but not her nose. I suppose it’s mean to pick on senile drunks, but she’s kinda asking for it.
Especially if it’s a grossly-overprice boat to begin with. 118 Glenwood Drive, which started off in 2017 at $17.975 million, has dropped its price today to $11.995.
21 Byfield Lane came on the market in August at $3.5 million, had a contract in 26 days, and closed today at $3.450. Its owners paid $2.8 for it in 2015 and made some expensive improvements but even accounting for transaction costs, they probably made out alright.
15 Sherwood Farm Lane’s listing at $2.575 in April and the owners followed their usual practice of renting it out for the summer ($25,000 per month). They brought it back on at $2.795 eleven days ago at $2.795 and it already has a contract. Mind you, we don’t know the final selling price, but obviously marking it up from its last-asked price didn’t hurt it. So who knows, maybe this market really is different.
The owners paid $3.450 for it in 2004 and have been trying to sell it since 2011, when they started at $4.550, so that’s not good, but they have rented it out almost every summer since at monthly rentals ranging from $20,000 — $30,000, so they haven’t been hurt too badly.
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