Contracts reported

44 S. Stanwich, asking $5.250 million, 64 days.

Probably coulld have sold it in 64 hours had they gone full-zebra

22 Cherry Tree

22 Cherry Tree Lane, Harbor Point, Riverside, $6.999 million. It started at $7.250 back in March 2020. I showed this, several times, to a couple back in 2011, but it was priced at $6.995 back then and the owners stuck to that price too long for my clients to retain their interest. It did eventually sell, to the current owners, for $5 million, in 2013, and that’s how this business works: timing is everything.

These owners did a lot of work here since they bought it, so the jump from $5 to $7 million isn’t quite as surprising as it may appear.

Pecksland sale

51 Pecksland Road, asked $3.250 million in March, got $3.225. Under contract in just 21 days and closed yesterday.

The house failed to sell back in 2016 - 2017 even though the owners raised its price from the original $3.3 to $3.5 in 2017. That usually works, though it didn’t here, for some reason.

In any event, it’s a different market now.

Pending on North Street

486 North Street (just before Dingletown), listed May 1st at $4.195 million, is now pending. Built in 1911, it still has 2.32 acres attached to it. Pre-COVID, older homes were slower to move, generally, than newer ones. Now, with demand far outstripping inventory, that’s changed, which, to my mind, is all to the good.

Finally sold on Lake Avenue

610 Lake Avenue sold yesterday for $3.7 million after beginning at $5.9 million in 2017. Custom built by my good friend and most excellent, high-quality contractor Ferdinand Steyer of Mountainworks, it sat on an extremely difficult lot, with a pond that restricted siting, and other difficulties.

But the house got completed in 2015, only to see the owner move back to his native land a few years later and put it up for sale. It’s been a long slog.

This will be interesting to watch

47 Shore Road, on a back lot, is new to the market today at $4.995 million. Its last go-round came in 2014-15, when it started at that same $4.995 and sold a year later for $4.250. Not much has been done to it since, so will the results differ? I’m guessing they will.

President "Poor Kids are Just as Bright, Just as Talented as White Kids" Biden now claims that the Democrats' wards are too dumb to find accountants and lawyers

Even black entrepreneurs are offended

And lest we forget who those white Democrats are and how they view their lessers …

Gideon just brought this sale to my attention

32 Wesskum Wood Road, asking $1.6 million, closed yesterday at $2.2 million. Owned by one of the best realtors in Greenwich, Tom Gorin (and his family’s house for 70+ years), Tom knew exactly what he was doing.

As Gideon taught me long ago, you can’t underprice a house in Greenwich, most of the time, because the market will raise it to the “real” value.

A question you may never have asked, but which I have the answer for anyway.

When, and why, did the ripped jean fad begin?

Turns out, all the way back in the 90s, when rappers, ignoring Joel’s admonition to “rend your hearts, not your garments”, started tearing holes in their pants as a symbol of … something.

At some point in this century, the ripped pant look was adopted by rich white trendies to, and I kid you not, “show sympathy for and identification with the poor”.

You can see how that worked out.

Do not go gentle into that good, dark-for-you, but not-necessarily-dark-for-Hottentots-on-the other-side-of-the-globe period of varying duration

do these glasses make me look stupid, or is it just me?

One Lara Hogan adds seasoning to the New Woke Index Verba Prohibitorum

Someone at “Outkick” took the trouble to find out more details on this swamp creature:

According to her Twitter profile, Lara Hogan is founder and leadership coach at Wherewithall. The company website states that Hogan “spent a decade growing emerging leaders as the VP of Engineering at Kickstarter and an Engineering Director at Etsy.”

The mind boggles, while the Bard weeps

Shall I compare thee to a mid-Q3 day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of Month 5,

And Q3's lease hath all too short a date..."

Something to chew on

45-minute wait to access the supercharger, 40 minutes to charge, Tesla brings out water bottles

I saw the headline, Tesla Files for Trademark to Enter Restaurant Business” and thought, “aha! They know how long the wait will be to recharge their cars and plan to make money off those wait times”. Reading between the lines, that’s exactly what they’re doing.

According to the May 27 filing, the electric vehicle manufacturer is looking to introduce restaurant services, pop-up restaurant services, self-service restaurant services and take-out restaurant services.

…In April, Musk brought up the plans again in response to one user who shared a picture of a "savage line" outside of one of the company's supercharger stations in Santa Monica, California. Musk replied that a new Supercharger station was coming to Santa Monica soon, adding that he hopes to have a "50's diner & 100 best movie clips playing too." 

This is Tesla acknowledging how long it will take to charge its cars at a “supercharger” facility. Wait for the average chump to discover how long he must wait at a normal highway charging station, which will be at least 2x as slow as Tesla’s; first, an hour (?) in line to get to a charger, then a 30 minute charge time to fill his battery with enough power to take him another 60 miles down the road. Family road trips are going to be a thing of the past, but that’s intentional.

But as I keep saying, by the time the American public discovers this and wants to revolt it will be too late: the government will have dismantled the internal combustion engine industry.