Noah lands on Mt. Ararat

11 Highgate Road, in Riverside’s “Harbor’ Point (there is no harbor here, but is that any worse than a 1970s tract development on a flat cow pasture being named “Flintlock Ridge?) has sold for $1.350 million. The original structure was wiped out by Hurricane Sandy in 2013, so any new home here will have to be built on stilts, but even so, this price seems reasonable. 0.67 of acre in the R-1 zone limits the allowable size to around 5,000 sq. feet or so (including garage); that should be sufficient for normal humans.

Water views over cattails, so not direct waterfront, though there’s a community dock and a small beach available. The original 2014 listing included a restriction that the property couldn’t be sold until the master lot, 54 Cathlow Drive was sold, but the owners gave up on their effort to unload Cathlow for $16 million in 2015 and last year freed this lot to be sold as a distinct parcel.

Harbor Point’s a pleasant neighborhood, if you can get past the residents’ proclivity to sue one another over basketball poles, walls, fences and loud popcorn machines, and at this price, a nice house could be built at a reasonable cost, one well within the current price range of houses here.