"Normally," said Koutsoyiannakis, "you'll get a Greek inquiring about property every two to three months.
Both Manhattanites and Brooklynites have inquired about the property.
(Mr. Berman said that a recent caller claiming to represent the Trump Organization had inquired about the property, but he never verified the caller's identity.
The house across the street from him has been vacant for more than a year, he said, and he knows of two prospective buyers who inquired about the property but could not get satisfactory answers from the bank.
The accounts were set up under the guise of two gay men, two gay women, a man and a woman where the woman inquires about a property, and a man and a woman where the man made the inquiry.
"What kind of market is there for that kind of thing?" Given the agent's "no comment," it is difficult to tell, but in each of three telephone conversations, Mr. Larkin was interrupted by callers who seemed to be inquiring about the property -- and the age of the tenant, and the amount of wiggle room on the price.
Nobody else inquired about the property, but such development is happening throughout the city, he said.
More than 100 people inquired about the property, and 10 written offers were made, said Lesslie Giacobbi, the real estate agent who handled the sale to a Villa Park investor for less than the asking price.
Walt Disney Co. approached the Murdoch family in recent months to inquire about buying key Fox properties, including the Los Angeles-based movie and television studios, cable TV channels FX and National Geographic, and Fox's international TV operations.
