| Greenwich Mansions Can't Find Buyers Connecticut Watchdog By George Gombossy Greenwich Ct., one of the wealthiest communities in the world, has trouble unloading its ... ....An excellent Bloomberg News article this week by former Courant reporter Oshrat Carmiel, gives an in-depth account: “Homes priced at $10 million and above are accumulating on the market in Greenwich, a town about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Manhattan that’s known as the U.S. hedge fund capital. They’re moving so slowly that it would take more than four years to sell them all, the biggest backlog since at least 2004, according to Mark Pruner, an agent with Prudential Connecticut Realty. Wall Street’s greater emphasis on deferred compensation, in which a portion of an annual bonus will be paid in the future, has stifled demand, he said.” “Our market moves very closely with the financial markets,” Pruner, based in Greenwich, said in an interview. “Deferred compensation has totally hammered the over-$10 million market because people just aren’t getting large amounts of cash, and that market has traditionally been a cash market.”.... |
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