It seems to be a legal contrivance centered around Preservation. You can’t tear down a house unless you try to sell it first. It think the owners want to tear down this $5M house so that they can put up a $10M house on this piece of land. But it seems they are not allowed to begin demolition until trying to sell the $5M house first. It’s all just going through the motions required by a law.
I would guess three sections.
That appears to be about a 2500 sq ft house.
I would think it would cost about $300K or more to build just that house(not the foundation, septic, well, site work) on Nantucket today. So, IF it costs $100K just to move it to another lot on the island it might be worth it.
There is an old Victorian house up the hill about a mile from me that was moved across my town about sixty years ago.
It was cut into four pieces and moved about three miles.
It has a wrap around porch on three sides and is covered with gingerbread scroll trim accents.
An 80 year old friend of mine told me about it.
You would never know