Sale price reported

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218 Clapboard Ridge Road (the better, Round Hill end) (video here) has sold for $15.4 million on a $15.8 million asking price. That’s certainly a improvement over the last time this house was on the market, when it was listed in 2013 for $25 million (we ridiculed that price at the time, and did so repeatedly as the years passed and the price kept plummeting) and finally sold to these owners in 2017 for $9.650.

The house was completely and totally renovated in 2018 and listed with John McAttee, who priced it at $15.8 million and put it on the MLS 10/24/24. He had a contract in 77 days.

Two sales pending

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wesskum wood road, riverside

In bold defiance of the Greenwich ordinance that requires residents to move every 24 months, the owners of 45 Wesskum Wood Road lingered for 28 months, purchasing it for $3.050 million in August 2022 and only putting it back up for sale last week, at $3.9 million. Fortunately for them, a buyer has appeared quickly, and the town is unlikely to initiate enforcement procedures.

Cognewaugh

Cos Cob, of course, is not subject to the mandatory leave requirement because, frankly, who notices Cos Cob or, as we like to say, Byram East? In any event, the owners of 107 Cognewaugh Road have remained in situ, undisturbed, from 2007 until now. They listed the property for $3.1 million 15 days ago and it, too is now pending.

That Roz — mere hours into her leadership role and she's already got the Rapid Response Team churning in high gear! (UPDATED)

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The Democratic Party posted a list of the things it got done in one day and it reads like satire

They (unsuccessfully) tried to block one of their former party members, introduced a bill to impose socialized medicine, thwarted democracy by barring people from removing chemicals from their tap water, sent a strongly-worded letter, and won a county election?

UPDATE: Forgot this gem from a few days ago of the Schumer trying, and failing, to get his audience to join him in chant:

If you've been looking for The Tipi and The Zebra, we've found them for you

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They’re in New Canaan! At 485 Laurel Road, to be precise, new to the market and priced at $7.250 million. Jokes about stagers’ cliches aside, this property looks pretty cool. Renovated 1846 house, plus various outbuildings, all on 17.5 acres. God knows what the maintenance costs for this assemblage would amount to, but the entrance price seems reasonable enough.

Riverside NoPo sale

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86 Mary Lane, new construction, $3.1 million. That’s a record for modest Mary; next highest, renovations, were 23 Mary, $2.180 million in 2022; and No. 27, $1.950 million in April ‘24.

Everyone’s favorite failed builder, Jianhua Tsoi, who kept the foreclosure business alive and flourishing almost single-handedly in the mid-2000s owned this property back then, and tried unsuccessfully to find a buyer willing to pay him to build a $2.850 home on it in 2008; the only one interested in the place was the bank, who foreclosed and, eventually, sold the lot to this builder in 2023 for $566,000.

That may have changed since Politco published its poll in 2017 (UPDATED)

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While we’re on the topic of welcoming muslims into western civilization and expecting them to adopt our values …. Two Muslim Nurses In Australia Suspended for Allegedly Threatening to Kill Israeli Patients

Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh were colleagues on night duty at Sydney’s Bankstown Hospital when the video was taken by Israeli influencer Max Veifer and later posted on social media.

In the clip of his face-to-face conversation with the nurses, Veifer remains calm as Lebdeh calls him a “piece of sh*t” and wishes him “the most horrible death.” The two healthcare workers then candidly express their hatred toward Israelis and their intent to kill them—suggesting that Israeli patients have already been murdered in the hospital.

From the video posted Tuesday night:

Veifer: “Let’s say an Israeli …”

Lebdeh: “I won’t treat them. I will kill them.”

Veifer continues: “If an Israeli is in Australia and God forbid something happens to him and he comes to your hospital …”

Lebdeh: “Not God forbid. A help to God.”

Nadir: “You have no idea how many Israeli dog came to this hospital and [hand-motioning to slit his throat] I send them to Jihannom [Hell]”:

UPDATE:

Lots of Hot Air, no results

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…. What's also a mess, after immigration, is the state of the German electrical grid, which is so dire, so unreliable, so dependent on outside backup electricity, and so expensive that it has caused the deindustrialization of the once-upon-a-time manufacturing juggernaut of Europe.

The things that made Germany and what Germany made are now shallow husks of better times.

An unexpectedly cold winter with extended periods of the dreaded dunkelflaute - or dreary days with little to no wind - has brought that home to the wind and solar-dependent country.

For a nation so proud of their self-sacrifice at the altar of decarbonization, it would appear they're killing themselves for nothing.