Past Home of Great Oom, Jimmy Webb For Sale

The local real estate market has seen some brisk activity over the past couple of weeks—the region had 19 properties go under contract and 25 properties transfer title.

Included in the list of recent pending deals is a contemporary home at 9 Tweed Blvd in Upper Grandview priced at $2,499,000, a renovated home at 49 Ash Street in Piermont that sold in just one day, a riverfront home at 709 Piermont Avenue in Piermont that sold in 10 days and five condos at Sierra Vista Lane in Valley Cottage.

Among the list of title transfers was 80 Rockland Road in Sparkill selling for $1,541,200, the new construction at 504 Ilona Lane in Valley Cottage selling for $620,000 and the brick cape at 10 Prall Place selling for $567,500.

Moreover, the area had 34 new properties hit the market—including our featured property, the historic fieldstone Colonial home at 47 Schuyler Road in Nyack. 

This home sits on 3.6 acres and boasts a rich history. According to listing agent Demerese Duprey with BHG Rand, the house was hand-built by local craftsmen on what was once part of the Roosevelt Schuyler Estate. The home—which abutts the Buttermilk Falls parkland—is said to be the former dwelling of popular American composers Jimmy Webb and Teddy Randazzo. 

Alessandro "Teddy" Randazzo composed '60s ditties like "Going Out of My Head" and "Hurt So Bad"; Jimmy Webb wrote classics like "Up, Up and Away" and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix."

Originally, the home was supposedly built for the wife of the famous American Yogi and businessman Pierra Arnold Bernard—also known as "Great Oom," "The Omnipotent Oom" or "Oom the Magnificent."  (For more on the interesting fellow, click here.)

Browse the adjacent photo gallery for more photos of this property, new listings, and some recent sales.

Next week, I will be reviewing how the local real estate market performed for the first half of 2012. 

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