Is it the flu or are old listings finally selling for some other reason?

129 Dingletown Road, which started at $3.449 million in August 2013 is currently priced at $2.399 and as of today, has a contract. Hooray!

The house is an odd transformation of a carriage house, and though I liked it, I’m not surprised that potential buyers found its layout off-putting all these years.

Many years ago Pal Nancy and two college roommates lived at 127 Dingletown, which at the time and together with the carriage house at 129 belonged to the estate of one of the roommates’ grandparents. This carriage house was occupied by the roommate’s brother and his wife, and in all, I think there must have been six or seven kids in their 20s living in the two houses. I’m sure the neighbors were relieved when the property finally sold.

For further historical perspective, the reason all the grandkids and their friends were living there in the mid-70s and the place wouldn’t move. This property extended way up Frye Lake at the time and had a lot of acreage, though how much eludes me — 14 acres? 18? In any event, the entire parcel eventually sold for something like $600,000, the brother moved out to start a restaurant in New Haven, Nancy and her roommates moved to Locust Street, where one of them became engaged to my roommate, and introduced me to Nancy, and so it goes.