Pending after 1055 days (and few price cuts)

6 Jofran Lane, currently priced at $2.950 million, is pending. purchased for $2.875 in 2007, it was put up for sale in 2018 at $3.995 million. Jofran’s a good street and this is a pleasant enough home, but as Tom Gorin, the sage of Greenwich real estate once told me, “lot’s of buyers like contemporaries, but they like their own contemporary”. Which I get; a colonial is pretty much a colonial, while contemporaries are, usually, unique, White is why builders paint walls in shades of neutral white.

And right around the corner from Tomac Lane, another quick sale

38 Shore Road, $3.795 million, 15 days from listing to pending.

10 days from listing to contract/pending

3 Tomac Lane, Old Greenwich, $3.950 million. Listed March 13, and it’s reported as both under contract and pending as of yesterday — I’ll assume that means an all-cash deal, unless the buyers have an incredibly swift banker.

I note that these sellers tried briefly to sell it for $3.450 back in 2019 but withdrew it after a month. That decision to wait for a better market seems to have paid off.

Tomorrow's News Today

The Times will label this misinformation, but I’ve alway found the Bee’s satire to be alarmingly prescient

Dr. Jill runs from the hot steaming pile of trouble at the border

I feel their pain, sure, but I’ve got Mr. Yam Head to tend to, and that’s a full-time job

Just two months after proclaiming herself the head of a federal task force for the reunification of illegal alien families, she denies any part of it.

"Jill Biden To Lead Task Force To Reunite Separated Immigrant Families," read the headline of a HuffPost story published in late January, several days after Dr. Jill's husband was inaugurated. "Jill Biden Expected To Help Reunite Separated Migrant Families," wrote Forbes. In a virtual chat with a group of young Latinos, the first lady said her office "will be working" on the reunification effort.

Apparently not. According to a Politico report published Tuesday, it was just another phony title. The first lady's office now insists that Dr. Jill has "no formal role" in the effort to reunify migrant children with their families. A more accurate way of putting it, perhaps, is that the first lady no longer wants to be associated with anything related to the unprecedented immigration crisis unfolding at the southern border.

Dr. Jill's flip-flop on the reunification task force has come as a disappointment to activists who hoped the first lady would use her platform to highlight the issue, as opposed to simply pretending to care about it. A lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union told Politico that the first lady's involvement "would be enormously helpful" but that there has been "no concrete progress" thus far.

Dr. Jill's spokesman, Michael LaRosa, said that while the first lady believes migrant children "need to be reunified with their families as soon as possible," she "does not have any formal role" in the effort to make that happen. Dr. Jill "will continue to support the work of the task force," which is overseen by the Department of Homeland security, he said.

Oh, the joy

Well so long, Mary Lou

Law School dean who self-canceled herself ahead of the mob threw a free speech advocate under the bus in 2018.

You can read about what she did then here, but here’s the prescient comment of some savant back then:

Acknowledging the "biological difference" between men and women, the Army revises its fitness exam and will now score on participation and wokeness ratings

I can do this, I just need a box to stand on

“Too many assigned-at-birth females were flunking”, Army spokyxperosn Melrose Finnagan told FWIW, “and so we followed the rule: if you can’t meet your standards, lower your standards. God help wounded soldiers in the field, but the Chinese will probably have taken care of that problem long before President Harris has to worry about it.”

It took a year and a couple of price cuts, but a buyer has been found

54 Orchard Drive, Millbrook, listed at $4.5 million, is under contract. Started last May at $5.4.

Five days on market

15 Hycliff Road, $2.350 million.

My heavens.

And another quick contract in Riverside, pretty much same story as the Dorchester sale mentioned below

6 Palmer Terrace (off Summit), asking $1.910 million, ten days on market. It was listed from $2.090 — $1.990 between March and October of last year, and just came back on this month.

Palmer Terrace is a very nice, dead-end lane close to everything that counts in Riverside: the schools, the train, RYC, and Ada’s. And as much as can be done with a 1958 split-level was done here, with excellent result; it’s a good house. It sold in 2012, post-renovation, for $1.849, and further improvements have been made since.