Would I buy on Riversville? Probably not; not yet, anyway.

Prices continue to decline. For example, 350 Riversville Road sold new in 2007 for $3,187,900 and has been for sale or rented out since 2017, when it began at $2.950 million. Today it dropped to $2.150.

Not that the current owners are to blame, but a beautiful 1848 Italianate house sat on this lot until 2003, when a builder named Hatch bought it, scraped it and replaced it with this rather plebeian example of “a modern farmhouse”.

Bah.