Well, dang; for a second there (literally) one of Greenwich's stalest listings appeared to have found a buyer
/$10.995 million and it’s yours
188 Round Hill Road, 11 acres and a 1948 Mott Schmidt (think Sutton Place mansions) house was briefly reported as under contract yesterday and then immediately restored to the active list.
Originally built for Enid Haupt — sister of TV Guide’s Walter Annenberg — the property was sold by her estate in 2006 for $14.650 million, and that buyer’s been trying to unload it ever since: $18 million in 2008, then dropped to a more modest $16 million in 2011 and declining all the way to $8.750 in 2019. The following year, with the property still unsold, a daring approach was effected: raise the price to $9.5 million. When that didn’t work, it was raised again in 2022 to $12 million. Astonishingly, this strategy was also unsuccessful, so the more traditional approach was returned to in April ‘24, and the price cut to its current $10.995.
So what’s wrong with the place? Eleven sub-dividable acres at a decent address, a mausoleum that can be fairly easily removed, and a price probably as low as that 2019 asked-for price of $8.750 — I don’t see why this hasn’t sold. I can see, however, that it hasn’t.