According to Jerry Effren, the principal of the developer, Greyrock Homes of Norwalk, the man offered a 10,000-square-foot Greenwich house as a swap for a pair of new Valley Ridge houses priced from $2.2 million to $2.5 million.
Michael McDonough, a Manhattan architect using denim fill in his Stone Ridge, N.Y., house, said it has "good thermal and acoustical values, and it's insect- and fire-resistant".
Among the other new subdivisions in Dutchess County are Stone Ridge, with houses starting in the mid-$400,000s; Hidden Brook Estates, with houses on 20-acre sites starting at $699,000; and the Nature Preserve, with town houses from $280,000.
Basking Ridge's houses remain on the market 2.5 months, on average, said John Turpin of Turpin Realtors.
Although his compact ridge-top house was perfect for a single man, Mr. Greenway recently remarried and has a toddler.
We were standing on a ridge overlooking his house in the village of Bendejun, in the hill country north of Nice.
The video shows the man leaping over an alley from the ridge of a house in Darlington to the pitched roof of a neighbouring property.
Reidy, a Forest Service ranger turned deputy incident commander for the fire, was chasing the flames when he spotted them licking their way over a ridge behind a house.
Through them he could see the high windswept ridge above his house, where the low bunchgrass could not get a hold, leaving only a seam of shale to overlook the irrigated valley.
