Storage Comes to Riverside!A new, six-story building complex is coming to Pinecrest Road in Riverside. An eclectic combination of (windowless) Nantucket/Shingle-style Georgian-Colonial, the structure will provide room for town residents to place everything they can’t fit into their current homes. “It’s the least I could do for my fellow citizens,” said Franklin “Westy” Bloomer, ruefully [...]
Entries from April 2007
April 20, 2007
Old Greenwich Waterfront164 Shore Road, an “antique” (in this market, you can probably read that as “tear-down”) on an acre of direct waterfront has gone to contract. No word on final price but I assume it’s somewhere close to its asking price of $7,900,000. Gosh. I realize that they aren’t making anymore waterfront but prices [...]
April 12, 2007
VocabularyTom Gorin, head of Cleveland, Duble & Arnold, suggests two new terms for our real estate industry. One is “Farport”, describing what results when a builder is prevented by our Floor Area Ration rules (FAR) from building a real garage: you get a lattice-sided carport, easy prey to thieves and vandals but, by God, it’s [...]
April 6, 2007
The Best Streets in Town (Published in Greenwich Magazine, April 2007)Some of smartest people I know in real estate (not as low a barrier as you might think) advised me against taking this assignment because, they warned, I’d be bound to offend hundreds of homeowners who expect their own address to be included among the [...]
April 6, 2007
Pricing!I was at Starbucks the other Sunday when a man approached me to ask if I wrote ‘that real estate column”. Upon confessing that I did (an admission that always leaves me wondering whether I’m about to be punched in the nose) he thanked me, saying that the one thing he’d taken away from my [...]
