What a difference a pool makes

Local builder Jordan Saper offered to sell his own custom-built house at 40 S. Stanwich Road back in 2020 for $6.450 but no one wanted it, and the listing expired that September. Saper put in a pool this year and placed the house back on the market at $8.950 million — contract in 36 days.

Oh — it’s not the pool, but the post-COVID market that accounts for this extraordinary result? Shoreline Pools will doubtless be disappointed that you feel that way.