Seven years on, I still like this house

115 Dingletown, priced at $2.195 in February 2013, is still on the market, but has (another) new agent, and (another) new price: $1.499 million. Is this the price that will finally entice a buyer to step up? I certainly don’t know — there’s obviously some stiff market resistance here, but it’s a nifty home for a couple, say, or weekender. Not very appealing for a large family, but not every house has to be suitable for the complete Brady Bunch.

The 1st-floor master bedroom, with sliders that open up to a very private koi pond and terrace, is pretty special, and the rest of the house just seems to flow easily together. Nice place.

It’s probably fortunate that the new agent has rewritten the prose of his immediate predecessor, a gentleman who, in a badly fumbled attempt to soar to literary heights promised that, “with an architectural build that will remind you of an Air Force Stealth Bomber, this home will surely take you away from the world around you”. In the vast library of regrettable real estate descriptions I suppose this amounts to no more than an insignificant footnote, but it’s memorable nonetheless, if only for the aspirational effort it reveals.

Bombs away!