Contracts reported

So buyers are still out there, and carrying their checkbooks.

11 Highgate Road, Riverside, is priced at $5.295 million and has a contract after 15 days. Just as an aside, when did the double-gambrel look (if that’s a term) become ubiquitous? These days, if it’s not the black-window, neo-farmhouse style, it’s a double-gambrel. I can hardly wait until the two are combined, perhaps with a Gehry-Twist added.

11 Highgate Road — “The Flying Dutchman”

And over on the Poor Side of Town, Diddle, “Ethel the Pirate” (drop the “P” when she’s annoyed with me) McAllister’s listing at 56 Calhoun Drive, $5.7 million, is also under contract — 31 days. Built in 1911, the owners, at Diddle’s urging, have installed indoor plumbing and electrical service, and it’s good to go. Smart girl, our pirate.

56 Calhoun Drive