Competition

No sooner had 59 Mooreland Road returned to the market this morning priced at $9.175 million than 44 Moorland slashed a cool million off its own price of $10.995 and can now be yours for pocket change: $9,995. This makes sense, because, while they’re two different houses, they're not so dissimilar that you’d want to tempt buyers looking on Moorland to go up the hill and see what 59 offers. They will, of course, but you have to try.

Speaking of trying, the owner of 44 Mooreland has been attempting to get rid of it since 2012, when she started at $17.199 million. It’s mostly been rented out over those years — the owner’s an ex of Jimmy Cabrera, of Antares infamy, and she may have gotten the house as part of the divorce settlement before Antares went up in flames. Whatever the circumstances, I don’t believe she’s lived there for quite some time.