Mark Byrnes

All Things Buffalo

Mark completed his B.A. in Environmental Design at SUNY Buffalo in 2009. He has been blogging since 2005 about issues surrounding urban development in the Buffalo area while also sharing his thoughts and experiences from his travels around the Western Hemisphere. Mark has also taken an interest in print design and corporate identity and applies his ideas and observations in these fields from time to time on this blog.

Affordable housing…indeed.


Daniel Briere made $5mil his last season in Buffalo, I believe made about 2.5 or 3 the year before and is now making insanely huge money in Philadelphia (a front loaded contract starting at over $9mil)

So you’d think his Buffalo home would be slightly expensive…

Briere sold his house on Covent Garden Lane for $325,000 — roughly $14,000 less than what he paid for it five years ago. The deal closed on July 29, according to documents filed in the Erie County Clerk’s office.

I doubt the value really went down. I bet Briere though he was getting a steal not understanding how insanely affordable McMansions are up here and only truly learned the housing market here the hard way.

Let’s see how much Drury’s house ends up going for…

Meanwhile, another Sabre co-captain, who also left the team last summer — Chris Drury — has yet to sell his house in Clarence’s Spaulding Lake subdivision. Drury paid $550,000 for the house in 2005.

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  1. Andrew says:

    Mark,
    I could have showed you his house when you were here! He’s a minute down Maple from me.