Back Country Blues

One Old Round Hill Road is back with its third agent and seventh price drop and can be yours today for $5.950 million. That’s down from its 2016 opening price of $8.495, but close to the price paid when all the world was new, or at least this house was, in 2004: $5,901,350.

I don’t think the listing’s pictures do it justice: this is a Kaali-Nagy design, with the well proportioned dimensions that Kaali-Nagy excels at, and despite its size, it works. Or it did — I haven’t been back to see it since it was on the market 14 years ago, and it’s possible that the “renovations” claimed in the current listing have compromised it. My guess is that it’s the location that’s hurting this home’s prospects, rather than the design itself. Who wants to live up here these day? Far fewer than before, according to recent sales records — just ask home owners in Conyers Farm.

And the price, of course, but that seems to be being addressed.