Quick sale on Knollwood Drive
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1 Knollwood Drive, $3.995 million, has gone from listing to pending, do not stop at ‘‘contingent contract”, in just seven days, which suggests multiple bidders and an above-ask selling price, but we’ll see.
It’s certainly an attractive house: 1929 Tudor on one acre; close to town, and an Impressive improvements list that should put it in immediate move-in condition. Buyers like that.
1 Knollwood Drive, Greenwich, Connecticut
Improvements and Description
• 2022
o Installed new 100-gallon water heater.
o Painted the house exterior.
o Installed new cedar shingle roof (southern exposure ~ 60% of roof)
o Full cedar shingle treatment (northern exposure ~ 40% of roof)
o New brick pathway to front door, kitchen door (heated) and side paths. o Installed new stone wall and replaced external stairs to basement.
o Installed recessed lights in wood paneled library.
• 2018
o Renovated full bath in Bedroom #3
o Renovated full bath in Bedroom #4
o Renovated full bath in Bedroom #5
• 2016
o Installed new Buderus Logano G334 boiler and heating system.
o Major work done on the HVAC system on floors 2 and 3.
• 2013
o Addition - Professional 600 + sq. ft. art studio with museum lighting, Sonos sound
system, full bath, slop sink, radiant heat, and wide plank wood flooring
• 2006
o Raised the ceiling and installed custom woodwork in pub (Kitchens by Deane) with full 4 seat bar counter, ice machine, sink, wine fridge and glass shelving
• 2005
o Complete kitchen renovation with new butler pantry, half bath, breakfast nook, French doors to terrace, large center island with prep sink, and china cabinet (Kitchens by Deane)
o Custom built desk, bookshelves, and drawers in Bedroom #2
o Renovated full bath in Bedroom #2 [Kitchen by Deane]
• 2004
o Renovated blue stone terrace, circular driveway and stone wall.
o Installed complete irrigation system (Summer Rain)
• 2003
o Complete renovation of living room, dining room, great room, 5 bedrooms, main bath [Kitchens by Deane], 3 walk-in closets in main bedroom, in-wall speakers in dining and living rooms,
o Installed small business Panasonic Digital Telephone System with Control Unit, 7 phone sets, 1 cordless and Intercom access on all phone units. [It’s still astonishing to see how quickly the iPhone’s introduction in 2007 made all existing teecommunication setups obsolete — ED]
o Installed Regency Model 2615 Security System combination burglar /fire alarm system with 80 zones, 4 interior pushbutton on / off full control stations, all doors, basement windows, first floor windows and second floor windows connected, 3 motion detectors, 4 photo-electric smoke / heat detectors.
The owners paid $3.275 million for the house in 2002, so with the costs of all of the improvements added, there’s no particular windfall here, but they also had twenty years of enjoyment and use of it, so that seems like a good deal, to me.
