Topic
The top of the market, the record sales and the estates behind them.
Seller’s DeskNaples
Older homes are 37 of 52 sampled in ZIP code 34102 and average 25.8 percent of the new construction price, while Port Royal’s twelve-month median was $17,690,000 and the year’s top Naples waterfront sale closed at 63 percent of its first asking price.
Seller’s DeskNashville
Redfin puts the 37205 median at $1,099,756 for the three months to July 2026, down 9.11 percent, with a 77-day clock, while one brokerage counts a 2025 median near $2.75 million inside the City of Belle Meade, where new construction, and most additions and demolition, answer to a historic overlay.
Older Home IndexNational
In most of the index, older homes sell for a fraction of new ones. In a dozen neighborhoods, from Arden, North Carolina, to North Scottsdale, the sample shows the reverse.
DealsWestport, CT
From a $15.5 million Tudor on Beachside Avenue to a run of seven-figure closings in June, the year’s top residential transfers as recorded in weekly town filings.
Market Data
Westport sits in the middle of the lower Fairfield County ladder, below Greenwich, New Canaan and Darien and well above Weston and Fairfield. Three different measures say the same thing.
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Luxury
Five parcels on Beachside Avenue reset the town record last November. Since then a 1929 Tudor has sold for $15.5 million, a 1971 contemporary has come down for a $22.8 million new build, and eight houses sold above $5 million in a single quarter.
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New Construction
A $10.25 million Coleytown house finished in 2025, a $22.8 million new build planned on the Sound, and fewer new houses under $3 million. Building new has become a top-of-market business.
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