Here's a curiosity

458 days after it was put up for sale, 21 Vineyard Lane, priced at $7.975 million, has sold for $10.4 million. Was a Rembrandt thrown into the deal? Did some sort of crazy-ass bidding war break out? I don’t know, but it must have been an all-cash deal, since there was only a week between contract and closing.

AMENDMENT. Reader DMH wrote, and then listing agent Chris Finlay called and confirmed, that the buyer here also bought its neighbor, 27 Vineyard Lane and combined its 2.75 acres with 21’s, for a really nice 5.5-acre parcel. 27 Vineyard Lane’s listing is here. Chris tells me, and its photos confirm, that the owner of 27 completely restored and renovated it and put in a beautiful formal garden, so the complete package looks pretty special, and now comes with a rather spectacular guest house.