The big bucks are still landing in town

9 Oakley Lane, a spec house  priced at $11.995 million one broker and two years ago and currently looking for $9.475, is reported as pending. Me myself, I'd expect a least a slate roof for all that money, but owners of these places rarely stay for the full ten-year life cycle of cedar, so I suppose they don't care.

I do find it amusing that, while both the original and current listing claim 14,000 square feet (town tax card pegs it at 10), the first agent acknowledges that 4,000 of that space, minus the four-car garage, will be found in the basement, while the new one blithely describes the house as "three-story". Ah, that Tamar; such a card!