European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Although Tew developments have Golf courses Moat have swimming pools and Tennis courts. About 20-25 percent of the package includes said Stewart siege vice president and new York regional manager of rotheby s International really. These developments have not affected real estate they be simply created a new Market for people who Don t want to have any he said. Siegel estimates that $425,000 would buy a two to three bedroom single family House on an acre of land in an area like Hastings on Hudson. Barbara Orr a physical education teacher paid about $419.000 far a two level unit consisting of two bedrooms and z i Baths when Sha moved from her Long Island Home last year. Now everything in taken care of said on who is also an avid golfer. I Don t have to worry about mowing the Lawn and i m Able to play Golf every afternoon after i m one of the few single women Here but in a new Community everyone is terribly Friendly she added. And the Security system is so Good ivs actually safer than living alone in a Orr had to wait a year before she could move in which was common at is. Andrews. Because the Rocky site required More blasting than anticipated and because so Many purchasers wanted customized units this development which began Aboul a year and a Hali ago experienced serious delays. But according to Orr the 2,500-Square-loot Home was Mortti wailing Lor. A Large palladian style window in the Iron of the House the two Story living room vaulted ceilings and a commodious Kitchen make her present Home Leel As Large As her More spacious previous one. Since Many of the people moving to is Andrews came from bigger houses i tried to create the illusion of Gigantic space said Robert . Stern. From the exterior they be been designed to look like an estate House that s been the architect chose dark Brown shingles while trim pitched roofs and sedimented porches reflecting new England architecture. The structures Are also in keeping with the Shingle style of the clubhouse a 1911 building attributed to architect Stanford White. Evoking a sense of grandeur seems to be important to luxury Cluster developments even to the Choice of the name. Regent s Park in Westport conn., Lor example was named after the Early 19th-Century London housing project created by tha famous British architect. John Nash. Like St. Andrews the 81 units Hal make up Regent s Park s 21-acre site also feature traditional building elements. But the site an old driving Range is flatter and the houses Are grouped around Concrete Block paved courtyards meant 1o resemble Cobblestone. According to Bruce Campbell Graham the architect the houses were arranged to form Small neighbourhoods. A year and a half ago the first group of 21 units sold out in a Lilette under six months Wei port has two other housing developments but James a. Mcarthur director of get an architectural firm in slam lord. Conn., and his wife Beverly settled on Regent s Park they bought a 1,750-Square-foot two bedroom unit. We bought the cheapest Model Mcarthur said. They spent about on extras things like More electrical outlets and having the basement painted a added. Janet and Ken Lloyd were More ambitious. Their Inree bedroom unit in Regent s Park could Well be a Sal from Miami vice the floors Are bleached White the Walls Pink and their Kitchen features a curved sky lighted breakfast area and such special appliances As at Arisen refrigerator and a gag Genau Cooktop Fryer and oven. Except for the refrigerator everything in the Kitchen was included in the base said Loyd who owns and runs Nolc Teby a a restaurant in Greenwich conn., with his Wile. The Boyds paid �440,000 or their unit and worked with the architects right from the Start to make the alterations they knew they wanted. We agent about $54.000 in extras that included a lot of plumbing and slur Cufal work Loyd said. They ripped out a wait dividing the iwo bedrooms upstairs to make a targe master suite with a vaulted ceiling and enlarged their bathroom using apace from an extra dose. No Yort Tim Pho at any eau Tot agreement 6#/j7 unmarried couples who live together. Four years ago Lynne a. Johnson and her Lover jointly purchased a cooperative apartment. They had no wedding plans though they were married two years late but they still signed a prenuptial agreement concerning the disposition of the apartment. We re both lawyers and to us a Legal agreement seemed the natural thing to Johnson said an agreement also seemed natural to John who asked that his last name be withheld although Lor different reasons. Last year at 32, he quit a Well paying Job to go to Law school. To save Money he gave up his apartment and moved in Wilh the woman he had been seeing Lor three years. I m not making enough Money to pay half the expenses and i did t want her to give me an allowance he says. Also if the relationship ended i could t take the Chance of being thrown out since i could t afford my own they signed an agreement that requires them to record the difference in the amounts each is contributing to the household. After to graduates he will pay her Back with interest. The agreement also says that if she wants him to move out before then she will help him pay Lor another place. Marriage was never mentioned but it reads like a classic prenuptial agreement John says. In a Legal sense there really is no classic prenup Lal agreement not yet anyway. They exist in relatively uncharted Legal territory and courts have had wide latitude in dealing with diem. Perhaps the most famous court Battle Over a prenuptial agreement involved the financier Victor Posner and his former wife Sari prior to their marriage in 1960, she had agreed to $600 a month in Alimony in they Ever divorced. When they spill up 10 years Laier she fought the agreement in court. She won every Appeal on what most lawyers say was a technicality in listing his assets when the agreement was signed. Posner had included the income from an $8.4 million Trust but did not mention that he had Access to the principal amount in the fund. In 1972, the Florida supremo court said in essence that the pact was unfair to mrs. Posner. The court May Toon have More than Case Law to rely on in rendering such decisions. The National conference of commissioners on uniform state Laws the Chicago based group Hal drafted the uniform commercial code the uniform probate Law and More than 200 other Laws that were ave Lually adopter by the majority of Stales has drafted a uniform premarital agreement act which it is paddling to slate v Legislatures. Colorado has adopted a version of the act and Mew Jersey is considering the proposed Laws Are still vague on How to word premarital agreements involving no Finandal issues. For example lawyers say the courts rarely uphold premarital agreements that Deal with the custody of As yet unborn children or with their religious upbringing. Premarital agreements thai Deal it Fly where in cafe Tufe will a Ballon or what they would do if one party gains. Weight during the marriage be probably useless Rorri standpoint v
