Obama VIPs Feel the Housing Slump
Not even the nation’s top officials are immune from real-estate troubles.
By
Mary Clare Glover
Courtesy of visualtour.com.
According to the Wall Street Journal, FDIC chairman Sheila Bair removed this 14-room Colonial in Amherst, Massachusetts from the market earlier this month. Bair and her husband paid $355,000 for the 150-year-old house in 2002, which they later renovated. The house listed in April for $795,000, dropped to $745,000 three weeks later, then dropped again to $695,000.
photo courtesy of Associated Press
Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithener can empathize. The country’s top economic official probably wishes he didn’t own this five-bedroom Tudor in Larchmont, New York, which he bought for $1.6 million in 2004. Geithner put the house on the market in February for $1.6 million, then dropped the asking price by $60,000 a few weeks later. When he still didn’t get any bites, he rented the home for $7,500 a month.
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