Thursday, November 06, 2008

63 Sound Beach Ave. ext.

Here's another (almost)20% price reduction, from $785,000 to $640,000. That's probably where it should have started, in my opinion, but now it at least looks realistic. Of course, the seller may have done himself a disservice by starting off where he did but ....

There's a "new" listing way up Taconic Road today asking $3.5 million. It's actually an old listing for a house on 4 acres that didn't sell at $4.0 million and, while $500,000 may seem like a lot to whack off the price, sellers should remember that the place didn't sell at the original price, so the price reduction doesn't really represent an actual out-of-pocket "loss" of 12.5%. It's a bit of a slice off the dream, perhaps, but dreams have no monetary value. I think this property is still in dreamland.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, you beat Raveis to their own news!! They haven't updated the webpage.

Anonymous said...

that sound beach ave place just went from hilariously overpriced to laughably overpriced. place is on a busy road, is hideous from the outside, and is no doubt a total dump inside (as evidenced by the lack of interior pictures in the ad). as for the land value, that works out to about $3.2m per acre-- it would take some kind of magician to turn a profit on a teardown there. The right price for this place is somewhere south of $500k.

W.

Anonymous said...

Question for W - If it was hilarious at 785K and still laughable at 640K, how about when it started at $887,500 ?

My thesaurus doesn't go that far.