Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Plenty of Drama, but Not Enough Action: Alone and Pondside in Richmond

Sell! Sell! Sell! screams the grand central Living Room of this 6,495-sq.-ft. wonder (seen here from the entry) in pond-spotted but down-to-earth Royal Lakes Manor. And really, it does look like the builder was able to get a rather comprehensive new-home design-cliché package to fire on all cylinders.

Sadly, all the entry melodrama hasn’t been drawing the buyers. The 2-story house — which looks to be about halfway between Sugar Land and Richmond, south of 59 — was completed in 2007, and originally listed for $1.2 million. The following May the price was cut to $1.1 million, then later listed with another broker for $1,025,000. By July, it was down to $949,000. It’s been listed with the current broker — at $899K — since last December.

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Four bedrooms, 6 1/2 baths, 3-car attached garage. Available . . . now!

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11 Comments

  1. 1
    From Richard:

    It’s not selling because it needs a taller turret.

  2. 2
    From RWB:

    But the entryway seems sufficiently phallic.

  3. 3
    From BJ:

    They could screen in that porte-cache and add another 3,000 square feet!

  4. 4
    From justguessin:

    What is up with those columns holding the stairs?? It is as if they changed their mind about the style halfway through.

    Also, what is a dance floor doing in the master bath?

  5. 5
    From RWB:

    From justguessin:
    Also, what is a dance floor doing in the master bath?
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    If only they had installed Dance Dance Revolution tiles into the floor. That sucka would have sold months ago.

  6. 6
    From MikeRG:

    Who says that’s the master bath? They are probaby keeping that as a surprise.

    Wonder how much it will go for when the FDIC has to sell it after resolving the lending bank?

  7. 7
    From Howard Hughes:

    Is it even possible to comfortably furnish that living room?

  8. 8
    From doofus:

    Just when I thought spec homes couldn’t get any worse…

  9. 9
    From Miz Brooke Smith:

    Little House on the Prairie?

  10. 10
    From EMME:

    MBS, you crack me up!

  11. 11
    From SAW:

    I especially like the three garage doors on the front of the house.

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