The Tale of a House, and an Entire Market
The history of 12204 Backus Drive in Bowie, Md., is in many ways the history of the American housing market over the last two decades.
In Housing, Big Is Back (Not Counting the Extras)
An easy and amusing read but, for the most part, has nothing to do with what’s happening here, not yet anyway. For example, Yet despite the bursting of the housing bubble, the ensuing recession and the slow recovery, buyers have not abandoned luxury homes. It turns out that they just took a break. In July 2013, sales of homes costing more than $1 million were up 46.6 percent from the previous July. Dream on
And saving the best for last - The Gadfly of Greenwich Real Estate
chronicles the wickedly hilarious doings of one Christopher Fountain, a much admired fellow blogger. His blog > For What It’s Worth
As he drives his white pickup truck past the manors that crowd the hills and meadows along Round Hill Road in Greenwich, Conn. — a town that has long signified what it means to be rich in America — Christopher Fountain snorts. This is “Rogues Hill Road,” or so Mr. Fountain has called this 3.5-mile stretch of asphalt. “All these aspirational schnooks came out here thinking that they had really made it,” said Mr. Fountain, a real estate broker, blogger and lifelong Greenwich resident. “But then the tide went out and what you are left with is a bunch of crooks.” Believe it or not, Mr. Fountain actually makes a living brokering mega-mansion real estate deals to these so-called schnooks, among others.
