Entries from March 2007

March 29, 2007

Spring Market ConditionsNot so bad. I recently ran the numbers for the first two and a half weeks of March and saw that 64 houses had gone to contract, compared to 57 during the same period last year and 74 in 2005. So we seem to be doing okay; certainly not collapsing like some of [...]

March 23, 2007

Oops!Do to an editing error, my praise for two houses last week, one on Kennilworth Terrace, the other on Intervale, ran under a week-old headline, “Looking for an eyesore?” That certainly wasn’t my meaning and, while it didn’t hurt Kennilworth, which went via multiple bids at a price presumably higher than its asking price of [...]

March 17, 2007

KitchensI enjoy cooking and often suffer intense jealousy pangs when I tour some of the luxury kitchens installed around town (the fact that, judging from their unused looks, these marvels of granite, 16-burner stoves and huge refrigerators are there solely for the convenience of caterers only increases those pangs, but never mind). The New York [...]

March 12, 2007

Mail BoxesI received a number of emails from readers squawking about the Old Greenwich Postmaster’s dictate that his carriers will no longer deliver mail on foot and that every household without a mailbox must have one by March 1st if they wish to continue to receive their mail. Has the Postmaster had ever tried digging [...]