From the House of Regrettable Design, a price cut

After 64 days on the market without an offer, the builder of the new structure at 17 Bramble Lane, Riverside, has dropped its price from $5.295 million to $4.995. I’m sure that will do it.

It’s an odd-looking house, but what it lacks in curbside appeal may be compensated for by its “character oak flooring”. I was unfamiliar with the term, so I looked it up: it turns out, it’s oak planks with knots in them. We used to call those “seconds”, but then, we also used to have master bedrooms, garages were referred to as garages, not “garaging”, and porte cocheres were reserved for David Ogilvy listings; life goes on, I guess.

Friends of mine sold this property to the builder in 2022 for $1,771,750 million (original ask, $1.650) and they, at least, did well: I don’t know what they paid for it in 1969, but I’m sure it was less than that.