Leaning Tower of Lockwood?
29 Lockwood Avenue in Old Greenwich, asking $3.495 million, has once again been withdrawn from the market.
Built by New Canaan developer Rick Girouard who was a widely respected builder until he was put away for bank fraud in 2010 , it’s a very nice house, although the choice to sacrifice a backyard for a pool probably wasn’t smart, but clearly the marketplace disagrees with the owners’ opinion of value, and neither will budge: buyers won’t buy it and the owners won’t cut their price. This has been going on for years, just about since the house was bought new for $3.1 million in 2005, and I believe the price has dropped $100,000 in all that time.
It is, of course, a property owner’s unfettered right to sell only at a price of his choosing, but it’s also the right of a real estate agent not to waste his time showing a house that’s not really for sale.
So it sits, until next time.
“LOVELY UNDISTURBED ACREAGE TO THE RIGHT OF THE HOME . . . ”
Kinda hard to come by on a 0.40 lot, no?
a 3.4 mm for a 3700sqft…10 year old house…crazy builder
When a house isn’t really for sale, why don’t brokers just refuse to be the listing agent? Is there no such thing as a broker telling the seller, no, that will not be the price, hence I will not list it for you?
O/t: Will we be waiting for The Hillary Clinton Presidency before FF can get off his can and make Lockwood and Mead website happen? I thought some kid was helping him. Did that kid ask for payment or something? I clicked on the website yesterday, on the page that says our listings. Can you say blank? Nothing. Nada. Zippo.
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What have you been smoking? Asking an
DIRT MONGERI mean Real Estate Agent to pass up a listing is akin to asking a addict to pass up a fix.The Duke wonders if Ruthie Jones visits Rick in the slammer.
I thought this house was rented for the past several years. Might explain why it keeps being pulled from the sale market. Doesn’t the owner live nearby?
It does get rented on and off, yet it keeps being listed for sale too. I suppose the large rental income helps sustain them in their “make me move” pricing. Again, I don’t care what they do, it’s their house, but I certainly won’t waste my or my clients time showing the place.
I don’t understand how the HS fuel is gas
But the hot water fuel is oil!
Can that be true?
It’s been a while since I was in the house and I don’t remember, but my guess is that there’s an error in the data input sheet. It happens.