More news from the Titanic

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16 Greenbriar Lane (just north of the Clapboard/Round Hill Road intersection) has dropped its price, again, and is now asking $3.4850. Built in 1978, renovated in 2013, it’s been on the market since June, 216, when it started off on this adventure at $4.250 million.T he owners paid $3.995 for it in 2005.

It’s a nice house; some builders were putting up quality homes in 1978, and this is one of them, and not that long ago, a price in the high 3s wouldn’t have seemed unreasonable. But that was then, this is now.

(Interesting, the town appraises this at $3,555,700. I used to advise clients not to give our town assessments much weight, because houses routinely sold above them. Now, it’s often the realtors who aren’t in tune with reality, and I’d tell my clients to start with the assessment, and work down from there.)