Westport property transfers as reported by the Town Clerk’s office for the period April 8 - 12, 2013:
RC Kaeser & Co. to Guido R. and Anja J. Bartels, 74 Bulkley Ave. North, $1,775,000
Anthony J. and Kathryn L. Sirico to Michel J. and Denyse M. Carrie, 15 Janson Drive, $800,000
SIR-24 Calumet LLC to Andrew L. Hunt and Carrie L. Cromwell-Hunt, 24 Calumet Lane, $1,690,000
Jeffrey W. Smith to Sally A. Sarfield, 1 Burr School Road, $1,049,000
An application for a permit to demolish the house at Westport’s 28 Turkey Hill Road South is in process. Built in 1947, the two-story colonial has 2,208 square feet and is situated on a 1.1-acre property. Because the house was built more than 50 years ago, the application will be reviewed by the Westport Historic District Commission. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Workers are busy at Sunglass Hut, 74 Main St., which will reopen in May, according to an on-site construction manager. “Reconstruction will be completed by May 8, inventory will begin re-stocking immediately thereafter that and we should be ready for business by May 13,” he said. The business, closed since Storm Sandy, also operates in other Fairfield County locations including Greenwich, Stamford and Trumbull. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
The house at Westport’s 17 Dogwood Lane, off Compo Road South, was demolished today. Built in 1950, the one-story ranch had 3,203 square feet, was situated on a 1.05-acre property and changed ownership last month for $1,060,000. It was the WestportNow Teardown of the Day on March 1, 2013. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Three weeks after it was first featured on WestportNow (see WestportNow March 27, 2013), the house at 65 Compo Beach Road at the corner of Bradley Street is going a little higher. The house is among several dozen Westport homes in the process of being structurally elevated following Storm Sandy—an effort partially subsidized by FEMA, according to Westport Fire Department officials. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed phto
Eyeglasses.com, an integrated retail and Internet store, has opened at 147 Post Road East across from the site of the former main post office. Westporter Mark Agnew said he founded the company as an Internet-only business in 1999 shortly after leaving Lehman Brothers where he was an emerging market research analyst.“The 2,000-square foot store is a prototype retail operation which we plan to expand geographically aiming at Greenwich next,” he said. He said the Internet retail concept allows customers to purchase from a range of 250,000 frames which may be purchased as frames only or with a prescription to include lenses. An optometrist is on site two days each week for eye examinations. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
By Dave Matlow
The Fovama Oriental Rugs store, 1385 Post Road East, next to Balducci’s, will close by early July, according to owner Javad Ahmadi.
A presence in Westport for 20 years, Fovama opened in 1993 in the shopping strip anchored by Pier One and in 1997 moved to its current location.
“The economy has changed in the past three or four years,” said Ahmadi. “It’s become difficult for a bricks and mortar business like mine to succeed.”
Ahmadi, who came to the United States during the Iranian revolution in the 1970s, said the concept of owning rugs has changed.
An application for a permit to demolish the house at Westport’s 46 Partrick Road is in process. Built in 1946, the two-story colonial has 3,152 square feet and is situated on a 3.1-acre property. Because the house was built more than 50 years ago, the application will be reviewed by the Westport Historic District Commission. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Westport property transfers as reported by the Town Clerk’s office for the period April 1 - 5, 2013:
Alysha Johnson to Marci L. El-Deiry, 41 Roseville Road, $765,000
Jerome and Annette Gladstein to Richard and Anna Pellino Jr., 49 Bermuda Road, $2,021,500
Lino H. Ribolla and Aurea Desouza to Mattera Construction 28 Ferry Lane East, 28 Ferry Lane East, $1,200,000
Hervert L. and Charlotte M. Jay to Alice and Sarah Blumenthal, 4 Onion Hill Road, $955,000
By Judy Szablak
Optimism is spreading nationally on the real estate front, as new housing starts exceeded the one million mark in March—the highest since January 2006.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) had expected a strong improvement, and upwardly revised figures show a 25 percent improvement over 2012.
There is a healthy choice of new construction in Westport, as almost 15 percent of all of the inventory is proposed, in some stage of construction, or completed.
As of today, there are 17 proposed new homes for sale with an average price of $2,711,471. Eighteen properties are listed as “under construction,” with an average price of $3,149,267. Another five homes are completed and ready for occupancy.
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