Daily Archives: February 6, 2012

Riverside resident Laura Siefert is back again before her former colleagues to ask permission to carve up a swamp in Riverside and allow her to cram three houses in where there is now one. I don’t suppose membership on P&Z … Continue reading →

  Florida legislator introduces bill to bar food stamp users from buying sweets and requiring them to take classes on nutrition. “Poor folk are just too stupid and ignorant to know what to eat”, seems to be her argument and, … Continue reading →

Food stamp fraud costing $750 million per year. That’s just the obnoxiously visible stuff.

He’s sold his new construction at 38 Langhorne Lane for $6.450 million. He was asking $7.350 million but this is still a big sale with, I would guess, plenty of profit in it. The man clearly has his pulse on … Continue reading →

Not in the $13 million range, thank goodness – I’d like to sell something. More later.

Two more expired listings have come back on today, both priced at or above $13 million. With 75 listings in the $13 and up set and six selling each year, that’s about 15 1/2 years before these all sell off. … Continue reading →

The builder of some construction at 42 Bote Road (off Stanwich, barely across the Cos Cob border) couldn’t sell his house for $3.950 despite his refusing to budge on its asking price. So he’s fired his old agent and hired … Continue reading →

From Teri Buhl, who obviously has a strong stomach if she can read this nonsense: Everything is beautiful in New Canaan home sales. Number of sales, up, average sales price up, median price up, no shadow inventory because foreclosures are … Continue reading →

1100 Lake Avenue, so far north that it comes with reindeer and holding just two acres in the four-acre zone, has an accepted offer based on its last listing price of $1.595 million. Assuming the normal whack down a house price … Continue reading →

So I got curious about who the Lucas was behind Lucas Oil Stadium, where that soccer game was held last night (I’m not alone in my curiosity, apparently – “experts” estimate the company got $30 – $40 million in media exposure … Continue reading →

11 Flower Lane started at $2.7 million in 2008 but inexplicably failed to sell. It’s back with a new agent, this time with a new broker who, one hopes, will have a better camera.

78 Zaccheus Mead Lane sold for $13 million in 2006 and is back up today for the same price. That might do it because the very, very rich don’t seem to be bothered by the current economic dislocation. And of … Continue reading →

State Representative Nebuchadnezzar (well actually, Shadrach, but same story) McGill insists that the Bible forbids doubling teachers’ salaries because then the profession won’t attract those “with a calling” to teach. I’m all for that, of course, but wouldn’t eliminating their pay … Continue reading →

Greece hours away from default.

961 North Street has failed to sell every time it’s been listed for sale, beginning in 2002 at $7.995 million and ending in 2006 at $6.995. Now, after a six-year layoff, it’s back again with an all-time low price of … Continue reading →

Why has the collapse of communism had so little  [I'd say no - Ed] affect on political discussion? [I]n our everyday politics, we still seem to be unable to make up our minds about the moral superiority of the free market. We … Continue reading →