Lower Cross contract

89 Lower Cross Road, asking $1.795 million. It was on the market for just 99 days, so it’s presumably going for close to that asking price. Train wreck aficionados may remember this site as one of the many Dominick DeVito-associated projects that went bust while Dom was in jail. Its concrete foundation, with a half-framed house atop and piles of rotting plywood scattered about the lot greeted passersby for years. Title reverted to the bank, eventually, and this owner paid $780,000 for it in 2015 and built this house.

I’m not a big fan of fiber-cement siding, and if I were to trade convenience for a house way up in the back country, I’d want more for a yard than weed-choked pond, but I’m particular that way.