It’s Open House Tuesday in the fourth week of September, usually a time of festivity – agents dancing around their new listings, offering trays of oysters and caviar to their colleagues and providing valet parking for our Beemers and Lexuses. Today – nothing, nada, take a hike (which will please Prince Charles). A handful of retreads, all with “new, astonishing price cuts” which still won’t do it, one, on Vineyard Lane, that remains firmly fixed at $11.1 million; surely a beautiful house, on five acres, but a 1930 project with an assessed value of $6 million, it probably won’t be moving off the active list for at least a little while – plenty of time to see it again later.
There’s the Lower Cross Road pseudo-Conyer’s Farm place, down to $13 million from what – $21? But after this much time, it starts resembling visitors and relatives, no? I mean, if no one else wants it, why should you? Not saying that’s rational, mind you, but that’s the effect of lingering too long on the market.
And that’s it. Nothing new, nothing interesting. In tight times, an opportunity to save gasoline is always welcome, but still, this is dull.
For What It's Worth 
So no one’s selling? Is that ‘cos no one’s buying?
My ‘loved ones’ on Zestimate are still tumbling. Nearly down to my ‘offers’. Shall I reduce my offers in case they start accepting them??
Fountain: how come no mention that Bruce Hunter has been fired again by the Rosebud clan at Greenwich Time–second time now.No managaing editor for GT it seems and at the Rosebud-owned Citizen, Jim Wolfe is m.e, and that’s iut.Bruce was editor of that weekly also,. What gives ?