32 Cutler Rd
This is a pretty nice house, as I recall, that’s been for sale, off and on, almost since it was built.From 1998 until August, 2000, it was listed for $2.995 million. A new broker came in and raised its price a million to $3.995 but, shockingly, that bold strategy didn’t work and it’s worked through the ignominy of countless price cuts ever since. Today it’s back again with still another broker and asking $3.250, just slightly under its assessed value of $3.253 million. Again, a nice house on five acres, but Cutler has always been a tough location for sellers, so maybe that assessment is wrong. We’ll see.
8 Tulip
This Cos Cob house was built in 2001 and put up for sale for $835,000 back in 2007. It finally sold today for $580,000. Assessed value, $475,000. 3 bedrooms, 1,100 square feet, approved above-ground pool site.
6 Comments
November 11, 2009 at 5:50 pm
32 Cutler has a bit of a fortress look to it.
As for 8 Tulip, I guess the help has to live somewhere.
November 11, 2009 at 6:19 pm
The swamp behind 32 Cutler makes it a deal breaker at anything close to that price. The listing broker, a few brokers ago, would say “you know about the swamp, right?” before she would agree to make an appointment to accompany the showing. She wasn’t about to drive over there for nothing.
November 11, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Hey, watch it Moose. That’s me you’re talking about!
November 11, 2009 at 6:24 pm
“Before she would drive [all the way] over there” pretty much sums up Cutler’s location and the difficulty it has attracting buyers. Swamps probably don’t help much, either.
November 12, 2009 at 10:00 am
Oh, Moose answered my question.
I was going to say . . . someone built a house that size in 2001 . . . I mean, even on Tulip Street (no offense intended, but Cos Cob was starting to get “rebuilt” by 2001, wasn’t it?).
November 12, 2009 at 10:53 am
Even this Cos Cobber recognizes that some streets in good old Cos Cob will never change too much. Cos Cob Ave, Bible Street and all the little streets that branch off these two such as Tulip are so diced up into small lots that rebuilding and improvement will be slow to come. What rebuilding we do see will be modest. The lots are just too small to ever command your typical Greenwich rebuild.
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