Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
(as painted by houlihan’s Tandy/Radio shack TRS-80, but close enough)
7 S Crossway, looked for $5.995 million but “just” got $5.650. I’ve said it many times before: I’d take any house in Lucas Point and be perfectly happy. Nice homes, great neighborhood.
78 Baldwin Farms South, listed at $4.595 million, closed today at $5 million. The owners paid $3.250 in January ‘22 (it had sold for $3.224 in 2011, to give you an idea of what happened, or didn’t happen, to prices during the mid-country doldrum period) did a fair amount of work to it — see below — and yet, surely, made a tidy profit. Once again, the pictures have been yanked from the Internet, so I’m putting up a few from the MLS site. You’ll note that, in a desperate attempt to appeal to the New Mexican and Bedford markets, they pretty-much drenched the place in white, black and gray (excuse me: “clay”) paint, tossing in a few different shades of each to add variety and excitement.
Oh! That would be Ferncliff; never mind. 25 Ferncliff Road, Cos Cob, was listed at $2.1 million but has sold to an incoming Stamford buyer for $2.530. Meh — I guess.
not sure i’m wild about a cracked foundation, mold, water stains and the presence of a dehumidifier as the result thereof, but wachagonnado?
64 Club Road, Riverside, and priced at $6.850 million, has found a buyer. 27 DOM. Club Road’s certainly changed since I lived one street over on Gilliam. Then again, the ranch that used to be here and owned by the Chairman of Homelite, Dehaven Ross, disappeared long ago, and Chairmen are no longer content to live in small ranch houses (weekend ranches in Montana are okay, though); no room to store their wives’ Hermes collections.
18 Perryridge Road, convenient to birthing center and terminal care and priced at $4.275 million, reports a contract. Assuming the ordinary 5-7 day waiting for contracts to be negotiated and inspections performed, this either had multiple bids, or James Gandolfini made them an offer they couldn’t refuse. The former seems most likely.
Last refuge — unfortunately, the Republican voters who used to live in these suburbs are being replaced by black, hispanic , and young democrats. And they’ll vote for the same politicians who’ve ruined the cities .multi-story “affordable housing”, here it comes.
I just saw this piece by Ed Driscoll on Instapundit after posting on LA’s crazy policy of handing over the city to sidewalk defecators and bums, and thought it made a nice bookend. I’m putting (part of) it here, in case you’d otherwise miss it.
“Back in May of 2009, in a Wall Street Journal article titled, “The End of the Affair,” the late P.J. O’Rourke wrote an encomium to cars, which the Obama-Biden administration was then just beginning its war on (as part of its still-ongoing war with many other aspects of American life), that was also at times, an encomium to the suburbs:
But cars didn’t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We’re way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy’s lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren’t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat.
“And get on with our lives in relative peace and happiness. No wonder the left hates the suburbs so.”
“Power to the Poopers!” Councilman Hugo
Business owners and residents in Los Angeles criticized the city's decision to remove planters that locals said greatly reduced crime in the area.
"I think it's a really terrible thing that they're doing because those planters were there to keep the encampments away," Hollywood resident Jacqui Antebi told NBC4 Los Angeles.
Crews of workers removed the planters along Highland Boulevard in Hollywood on Monday after the city found that the planters were erected without proper approval from the government. Local business owners and residents initially put up planters in May to prevent homeless encampments from taking over the area, according to the report.
"We understand the frustration that local businesses feel about this issue, and we encourage residents to follow the legal process and work with the city to obtain the proper permits to install community beautification projects in the public right of way," a spokesperson for Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez told NBC4.
"This the first time I've been able to walk down the street in years because it's been filled with drug dealers, homeless people. It's been unsafe. I almost got ambushed once just trying to walk home," Antebi said of life after the planters were placed on the street.
Some business owners pointed to the massive reduction in crime after the planters were erected in May.
"We've seen at least a 90% drop in crime around here," business owner Andrew Monheim said. "And we're just trying to run our businesses and have safety for people."
21 Dempsey Lane’s price has been cut from $5.495 million to $5.2 million after just 15 days on the market. (It’s Alice Duff’s listing, but I couldn’t readily find it on Sotheby’s page, so I’ve linked to Zillow). Over the decades, Mrs. Duff has probably sold more real estate than any 20 of us lesser agents combined, and she knows not to cling to a price that isn’t working.
Nice house, but definitely could use some updating.
21 Stanwich Road has sold for $2.270 million. It started at $2.850 million last August, which only goes to show that even in this market you can still overprice a house.
The listing photos have been yanked from most sites, and the few that still have them require the viewer to sign up for junk mail, so I’m just linking to a video that is still active as of this writing, and posting a sampling of photographs from the MlS realtors page.
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