The “Visit”I’m writing this just a few hours before the arrival of our President and the excitement here in Old Greenwich is high; helicopters overhead, cops on every corner, motorcycle cops and state troopers behind the firehouse, all parking barricaded, and Secret Service agents with a bomb-sniffing dog checking the entire route, including Tig Smith’s [...]
Entries from September 2006
September 22, 2006
Smart Money? While many would-be buyers of smaller homes are sitting on the sidelines waiting for the world to end and offer up cheap bargains in housing, Joe Barberi (Soetheby’s) listed a waterfront parcel on [...]
September 8, 2006
The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!If you believe our mainstream media, the housing market has collapsed and everyone who wants to buy a house should be sitting on the sidelines, licking their chops, waiting to pick up houses for a faint whisper of their asking price. Don’t be stupid. The Greenwich market is [...]
September 7, 2006
King Merritt AcresAnother agent and I recently discussed this development’s prospects. He predicted that new construction could sell for the low $3’s, which I thought was optimistic. It’s an interesting area because it is one of the few places left to find one acre lots. Some of those lots are too swampy or too close [...]
