Fly away little bird

28 Pheasant Lane, $2.950 million, under contract after 17 days. Good street, charming, 1942 house on 1.5 acres (in the 2-acre zone, but still FAR left), will it survive? We’ll have to wait and see.

It’s my friend Sally Maloney’s listing, so maybe I’ll do something daring, like call her and ask.

UPDATE: I did hear from Sally last evening, and she tells me that the purchasers are a young couple who love the house; hooray! Sally also reports that she had 22 showings in 5 days, so apparently the market remains hot, and demand for older homes is, if anything, stronger than it’s been in some time. For a while, now, the demand has been for houses built or extensively renovated in the past ten years. And in the $2.5 range, though those are scarce.