Of course some markets — cryptocurrencies, for instance — haven't performed as well as others have

The owner of 241 Bedford Road has been having a tough time unloading it, and those difficulties continue; the price dropped to $5.195 this morning. She paid $5.675 million for this beautifully renovated 1835 home in 2009, did even more work to it in 2021, and put it up for sale at $6.495 in March ‘22, with a bold notice in its listing that she would “accept payment in cryptocurrency.” No one stepped forward, even though the price dropped to $4.995 million by last December.

This January, a new broker was hired and the house returned to the market two weeks after the original listing had expired, but with a twist: cryptocurrencies would no longer be accepted, and instead of the $4.995 price that had failed, the price was hiked to $5.495; the result, as noted above, is revealed in this morning’s reduction.