DevelopmentSaugatuck
A 6-0 vote retired the special district written for a hotel and retail village that never got built. A smaller apartment plan from Spinnaker Real Estate Partners now sets the terms for the neighborhood around the train station.
Town HallSaugatuck
Two committees of the Representative Town Meeting voted against joining the Connecticut Municipal Development Agency. One member called the vote a matter of not becoming a test case.
PolicyVote Tracker
From the Hamlet denial to the Saugatuck rezoning, the commission’s major votes since July 2025, with names where they were reported.
DevelopmentGreens Farms
An affiliate of Trammell Crow wants to put 250 apartments on a 21.9-acre office campus. At the September hearing, neighbors arrived with accounts of the Sept. 13 storm, and the review now resumes Oct. 28.
Town HallFirst Selectman
Westport’s first selectman inherited a revaluation, a new state housing law and a fight over a bridge. Here is where each stands, in his own words.
InfrastructureDowntown
The Sept. 13 storm left the bridge near the Westport Library so compromised that the town is weighing removing it before the replacement is ready. Design and permitting alone carry a $172,500 request.
Six numbers that frame the Westport market this fall, each with its source and its period.
Median single-family sale price, first quarter of 2026. Westport sold 48 houses in the quarter, more than twice as many as Darien and well above New Canaan's 30. Hover or tab through the bars for sales counts.
Sources. Riverside Realty Group, August 2026 market update. William Pitt Sotheby's, Westport market report. Westport Journal, mill rate. Freddie Mac, Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Brown Harris Stevens, Connecticut market report, Q1 2026.
Market Report
The single-family median is up 5.9 percent through August, and the number of houses for sale is down by more than a third. Mortgage rates just reached their highest level since November 2023.
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Market Data
Twenty-five condominiums sold in Westport from January through September, down by a third. For buyers who want to stay in town without a house, the options are thin.
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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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Market Data
Offers accepted between September and December have tracked the market for three years running. Price per square foot rose every fall, while the median house price flattened in 2025.
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Architecture
From an 18th-century farmhouse to a 1958 modern house, the town’s listed buildings and districts, in the order they joined the register.
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Open Door
Designed in 1958 by a protégé of Mies van der Rohe and listed on the National Register in 2010, the house on Burritt’s Landing is a rare intact piece of Westport’s modern period.
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Architecture
Nearly four centuries of building in Westport, from the Kings Highway colonials to Frazier Forman Peters’s stone cottages to the modern houses the town lost and the ones it kept.
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Architecture
In 2007, after the National Trust and the state’s attorney general intervened, the Micheels House on Minute Man Hill was demolished. It was the first Rudolph house lost after the architect’s death.
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Open Door
In 1920 the newly married F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald leased the Wakeman Cottage, a 1758 Colonial on Compo Road South. A century later the house has changed hands at prices the couple could not have imagined.
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About 3,000 Westport properties sit in mapped flood zones, and new FEMA maps for the Saugatuck River watershed are expected this fall. How to read the risk before you bid.
Open Door
Before the hedge funds and the new builds, Westport was an artists’ colony. Many of its houses still stand, and a few have come to market in recent years.
Deals
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.
Development
A pre-application for 1431 Post Road East sketches a two-story indoor sports facility on 1.74 acres now home to Izzo & Son Country Gardens, Furniture on Consignment and Bar Lupa.
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Buyer’s Guide
What will this house cost me every year?
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How do I know if a house floods?
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Can I add a second unit for family or rent?
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Is the house on sewer or septic?
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What will insurance cost, and what will the insurer ask?
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Can I lower my property tax bill?
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How hard is the commute to Manhattan?
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Which schools would my children attend?
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Seller’s Desk
ATTOM’s study of 52 million sales put the seller premium at 10.7 percent in March and 7.9 percent in October. Westport had just 59 single-family houses for sale in August, down 35.9 percent, while last fall’s accepted offers, across all home types, took a median 45 days and the 30-year rate reached 7.28 percent on Oct. 1.
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Seller’s Desk
On a hypothetical $3 million Westport sale, the state collects $38,500 in conveyance tax and the town $7,500, each point of commission costs $30,000, and gain beyond the $500,000 federal exclusion for a married couple can be taxed by Connecticut at up to 6.99 percent.
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Seller’s Desk
A 2.22 percent national average for buyers’ agents on homes of $1 million or more, from Redfin’s third-quarter 2025 data, comes to $53,835 at Westport’s 2026 single-family median of $2,425,000, where each point of commission is $24,250.
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Seller’s Desk
| Property | Price |
|---|---|
| 92 Beachside Avenue | $15,500,000 |
| 7 Sandpiper Road and 0 Cavanagh Avenue | $11,895,000 |
| 2 Judy Point Lane | $8,700,000 |
| 319 Bayberry Lane | $7,750,000 |
| 14 Bermuda Road | $7,250,000 |
| 3 Tanglewood Lane | $6,850,000 |
| 107 Harbor Road | $6,500,000 |
| 22 Appletree Trail | $5,995,000 |
