Valleywood Contract

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41 Valleywood Road, Cos Cob, asking $1.795 million. It sold new in 2008 for $1.750, but these owners did better, paying just $1.535 two years later in 2010. Steve Archino represented them on the buy, and now the sale, so make sure he doesn’t stick you with the lunch tab.

There’s not much of a yard and just a one-car garage, but since when do New Yorkers care about such things? (But wait’ll they discover that the closest subway offers sandwiches, not rides.)

Valleywood’s a surprisingly popular street, given its pass-through traffic, but I’ve always liked it despite that, and judging from its history of quick sales, in good markets and bad, others do, too.

A 3% price cut? In this market? Someone's being stubborn

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After 14 months at $5.995 million, 74 Rock Maple Road, off Stanwich, has cut its price to $5.795. It’s a very nice looking house, and I’m a bit surprised some New Yorker hasn’t grabbed it before this, but if you can’t sell your house at the price you’ve set, in this record-breaking market, you might want to listen to that market: you’ve overestimated your home’s appeal.

A refusal to budge off a price for over a year sends a signal that the owner doesn’t want lower offers, and that usually achieves its purpose: no one bids on what they think is an overpriced home. So it’s possible that today’s grudging, minimal drop is also intended as a signal, this time that lower offers will now be considered. And that might work; I’d have been more aggressive, though.

Apple to apple

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64 Benjamin Street, Old Greenwich, was on the market for 488 days in 2019-2020, starting at $1.795 in 2019 and finally dropping down to $1.625. It was withdrawn from the market in April 2020 as the pandemic hit, and returned, at that same $1.625 in September, whereupon, the Pandemic sellers’ market having struck, it sold for $1.7.

So, that was last September. Something obviously changed in the new owners’ plans, so they put it back on the market this April — 6 1/2 months later — untouched, at $1.790 million, and sold it yesterday for $1.850.

After transaction costs, the sellers obviously didn’t make money on this quick in-and-out, but from a buyer’s perspective, that’s quite a bump. I hope no one bidding on the house this time didn’t fail to bid last summer, thinking that prices would fall. They surely will, but not yet.

This is Huuuuge! NYC is a hotbed of MAGA and Trump supporters

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Jim Geraghty: After Seven Months, 40 Percent of New York City Educators Aren’t Vaccinated

And it’s not just teachers wearing MAGA hats:

Both the city’s 135,000 public school employees and 42,000 public hospital workers have a 60% vaccination rate. An MTA spokesperson estimated 65% to 70% of the transit agency’s 65,000 employees have received the vaccine.

But wait, there’s more! Trump’s and Tucker Carlson’s anti-vaccination crusade has reached into the city’s slums, and black people have listened!

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Our media masters have refused to report this, Twitter and Facebook have banned people who've said it

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Fauci admitted this over a year ago, before the overlords figured out that compulsory masking created a useful attitude of subservience and obedience to the State.

During a segment on CNN Monday afternoon, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Director Michael Osterholm said cloth or paper masks don't work to stop the spread of the disease.

This, of course, has been well known for over a year. Dr. Anthony Fauci told former Obama Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell that store-purchased masks do little to stop the spread of the disease.

"The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you. I do not recommend you wear a mask," Fauci wrote in an email on February 5, 2020. 





Because you know your representative didn't, and your senators haven't, and won't.

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Here’s the entire 2,702-page Infrastructure bill for you to read. What’s in it? Well, I won’t read it either, but I can guarantee you that what the lobbyists and communists have put in will come out as evil.

Reminder: anything Blumenthal, Murphy, or any other Democrat says in favor of this bill is based on nothing: he hasn’t read it. On the other hand, it’s entirely logical to attack the thing based solely on its size, dollar amount, and the knowledge of who drafted it.