Big home sales of the week include a South End townhouse and country estates in the suburbs
The South End had a big week with its biggest sale being $4.3 million.
In yet another week of big sales, Boston’s South End seems to be the real star with six homes selling for well over a million dollars — including one that made it up to $4.3 million. Other towns in the Boston area didn’t fair so badly themselves, with plenty of other home sales that went for over a million. Check these out.
185 W Brookline Street, Boston
This five-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 3,981-square-foot Victorian multi-level home sold on November 20 for $4.3 million. The single-family home was built in 1866 and is a big sale even for the already expensive South End with an average home price of $900,000. It has been fully renovated combining historic with modern and has a private garden, a formal dining room, a library/office, a home theater, and a 1,000-bottle wine cellar.
On November 20, this home on 38 acres of land sold for $3,234,700, which is well above the $822,000 average home price in the town west of Boston. Along with the large amount of acreage surrounding the home with wide open rolling meadows and a pond, the 1936 home itself has five bedrooms, three bathrooms, two half bathrooms, and 5,713 square feet of living space. There is a tree-lined driveway, a three-bedroom carriage house with a wishing well, a six-car garage, and a patio.
This contemporary home built in 2008 sold for $1.4 millon on November 20, which is getting pretty close to Somerville’s most expensive home sale ever and beats out the average home price of $779,000. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 4,680-square-foot home has an attached garage, a fenced backyard, stainless steel appliances, and a large family room.
In a town that frequently has pricey home sales, this Brookline home that sold for $4,950,000 on November 24 still went for well above the average home price of $1,355,000.
The renovated home was built in 1860 and sits on an acre of land with six bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, and 6,028 square feet of living space. According to the listing it was one of the “original structures in Brookline’s bucolic Sargent Trust’’ neighborhood and has a library, a 40-foot-long living room, an expansive kitchen, original trees, two patios, and a grand front courtyard.
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