This seems ambitious

(Original photo of back yard has been swapped out, because I’m a nice guy. The original may still be up on the listing, at least for now, and you can go there to make sense of some of the comments)

8 Boulder Brook Road, new construction, has hit the market at $6.495 million. It’s your standard 8,500 sq. feet above ground, 2,500 below, on an acre-plus. Nice enough, if this sort of thing is your taste, but if it is, I’d look next door to 16 Boulder Brook, which sold new in 2007 for $5.8 million and whose listing just expired September 3rd at $4.495, after starting off in 2016 at $5.795. It was in excellent condition last time I peeked, and at, say, the low-fours, you could get what’s essentially the same house as number 8 without paying the new house premium. And 16 has a pool.