Not much you can do except capitulate when your neighbor in the identical house throws in the towel

211 Orchard in Cos Cob, marked down from $4.4 million to $2.975, finally has a contract. The owners paid $3.7 for it in 2007 — the neighboring house with the same builder, the same 2004 build-date, paid $3 million for his in 2009 in the midst of the bust, but that neighbor had to cut his price from $3.995 to $2.795 before going to contract last week; there’s no way even the best, most avaricious agent will be able to convince their own client that one pea in the pod is worth $1.65 million more than the other. So it goes.