Good Lord, it's found a buyer, and after just 16 days

444 Old Church Road, bank-owned and listed at $1.999 million, has a contract. I wrote about this hideous pile of Dryvit on February 11 and I predicted then a long, lingering death on the market. No so.

But who would buy this awful box? Reader JohnM suggested that the town grab it and use the land to redesign the intersection here, and that struck me as a great idea. Another reader thought that GCD buy it, just on general principle, and that might have worked, too. But has a natural-born person actually agreed to part with money to own this place? “Inconceivable”.

UPDATE: Apparently that word doesn’t mean what I think it means. Gideon tells me the property was “the subject of a mad, crazed bidding war, at least five bidders”. He’s as surprised as I am, and I remain gobsmacked.