There are none so blind as those who will not see

7 Jones Park Drive in Riverside has been on the market since January 22nd, priced at $5.995 with nary a waver from that demand. Until yesterday, when the price was finally cut a whopping $200,000 to $5.795. Houses all over town, but especially in Riverside, are selling in days or, at worst, weeks, but not in months. Here is a list of 21 houses in Riverside in this general price range, all of which went to contract this year:

Most, if not all 21 of those buyers must have looked at 7 Jones Park and rejected it in favor of another. Understand, I’m not saying anything bad about this house — I haven’t seen it — but the market certainly is. In fact, if a house on this, one of the best streets and neighborhoods in Riverside, hasn’t budged in nine months, that’s no mere muttering of disapproval, it’s a full-blown holler. And the fault surely lies not in the stars, but the price.

The listing agent here is Ellen Mosher, and there isn’t a better or more experienced agent in Greenwich; she must be tearing her hair out over these owner’s stubborn intransigence.