Gone and back again

(Suggestive)

The 11-acre lot in Conyers Farm, 25 Upper Cross Road, reported a contract just this past May, but it’s back on the market today at the same asking price, $4.995 million.

Will no one rid us of this troublesome piece? There’s a long history for this building lot, all of it involving steadily decreasing value. Someone paid $5.575 for it in 2003; then, its tax card shows a $9 million purchase in 2007, although that might have included a to-be-built house: the record doesn’t say; a sale for an undisclosed sum in 2012; another in 2017 for $5.175, and, finally, that buyer resold it, complete with full architecture plans, to the current owner for $5.475 in June 2021.

But it took mere months for buyer’s remorse to set in, and the property was returned to the market in September ‘21 priced at $5.875. And there it has sat, going nowhere — except for its price, of course.