Stephen Schoenfeld of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Real Estate offers a magnificent retreat in the heart of the Berkshires with pool, tennis court, and pond on 25 beautiful acres.
See how architect Pamela Sandler transformed a lake house on the shores of Lake Onota. A report on real estate sales in the first quarter of 2025. Plus, recent sales and gardening columns and a home-cooking recipe.
“It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all …”
That humidity translated into a very wet year with the most precipitation seen in this young century of 63.72 inches, which was nearly 20 inches more than last year and 24 inches more that the drought year of 2016.
An article in the Washington Post sited high Atlantic Ocean temperatures in the 70s and 80s as the reason for the extreme humid conditions this summer.
Except for the view, nothing about the house is "fabulous." There is nary a DVD or CD player to be found, no surround sound, no dock for the iPods. Internet is sketchy.
