Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: The Belle of Belclaire Has Been Reduced Just in Time for the Holidays.

And I am now a House Whisperer!

Honestly, someone tell me why 4212 Belclaire is still on the market? It has everything going for it and then more. It is so clearly ready for a new owner to love, nurture and cherish it, and it promises to love a new family back in return.

What’s that, you ask — Candy, have you now become a HOUSE WHISPERER?

Maybe so. From time to time a home will just kind of reach out to me, begging for some help. Or attention. Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s agent Karla Trusler has worked every trick in her very thick real estate book to make this house shine. Let’s look at the 10 reasons why this circa 1955 Georgian is so wonderful it should be snapped up like groceries were last weekend:

1. Price reduction: Karla shaved a freakin’ HALF MILLION dollars off this home. That’s like free money, a gift of equity you will never have to pay tax on.

2. The home has a famous owner: CEO John M. Scott III. Recall he was replaced over at Rosewood back in August 2011 by Radha Arora.  That came about when Rosewood sold out it’s lucrative (thanks to John) management company to Hong Kong-based New World Hospitality mid 2011. John is President and CEO of the embattled  Orient-Express Company, owner of such renowned hotels as Venice’s Hotel Cipriani.

3. The home was decorated by a talented and delightful woman, Debra Scott, John’s lovely wife, who is from New Zealand, has traveled across the globe and has exquisite taste. The remodeling was done in 2005 by Wilson McClure under Deborah’s eyes.

4. The house is a great party house flow and that garage doubles as a party room. The outdoor entertaining areas include a covered loggia, live oak shaded terrace and a broad, elegant lawn surrounding a sleek swimming pool.

5. BEST LOCATION EVER on Belclaire for cripes’ sake, in Highland Park.

6. The house has high ceilings. Usually, when you see a home of this vintage languish, it’s because the poor baby was born with 7.5 foot ceilings. That’s kind of like being born with a cleft palate.

7. The lot is so primo! Measures 100 feet and you are getting more than a third of an acre, .38 to be exact. The dirt this home sits on is solid gold.

8. There is a five-car garage for parking with a gated drive and motor court.

9. The home has 7,640 square feet, with six bedrooms and a powder room. There is also an exercise room, game room, library, mud room, and a whole extra room to store junk in.

10. The home has three fireplaces. That may not be 8 or 9, but probably enough to keep you toasty through the next Icemageddon.

See what I mean? This place is perfect, even has a Home Alone appeal to it. I think it knows its family is not coming back from Europe and it is holding tight until the new owners take over and fill it with love, laughter, and a cute kid or two. Reduced to $3,475,000 and Inwood Mortgage LOVES it when homes go on sale!