I really would like to have a busy open house list today but with perhaps one or two exceptions, what’s on today is recycled and still over-priced so why bother? I don’t need to “take a fresh look” at a house that’s had its price reduced 3% – I get it, even if the seller doesn’t. Fortunately, there are other things to keep me busy and I do appreciate the opportunity to minimize my carbon footprint. But still ….
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What is the current price of the Beechcroft spec house which has been on forever? The one that has 3 peaks and is very shallow — you can see right through the front to the swamp in the back. And what was the original price?
Frankly, I’m tired of looking at houses. I’ve accepted the fact that, with a few extremely high-priced exceptions anyone lucky enough to have a (1) well-built, (2) well-located house on a (3) nice piece of land is hanging on to it as long as possible. I’d settle for two out of three if I didn’t feel like everyone was pricing as though their properties had all of the attributes and then some.
Sellers waiting for the mythical rush of bonus-rich guys eager to overpay for used houses
It’s still in the 7s, I think, Jane, and either waiting for foreclosure or a miracle, I supposes.
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — Donald Opatrny, a former Goldman
Sachs Group Inc. banker, sold his apartment at 15 Central Park
West in Manhattan for $21.5 million, almost twice what he paid
last year, according to New York City records and the Real Deal.
Opatrny, who paid $11.6 million for the condominium, sold
it to an owner named on the New York City Department of Finance
Web site as 35D CPW LLC, a limited liability company. The Real
Deal Web site identified Opatrny as a one-time Goldman Sachs
partner. He didn’t immediately return a telephone message from
Bloomberg News.
“It’s considered the best luxury condominium in New
York,” Manhattan appraiser Jonathan Miller said in an interview
about the building, where Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer
Lloyd Blankfein also owns a condo. “It really came on the
market, circa 2005-2006, sort of at the height of the Wall
Street bonus frenzy.”