A Westport couple’s “dream home” on Compo Mill Cove that took four years to build—and that needed a landing craft to ferry materials to the building site accessible only by a footbridge—has sold for $6 million.
“Sandbar” at 46 Compo Mill Cove had been listed for $9.9 million in 2009. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo
The four-bedroom, seven-bath, waterfront property at 46 Compo Mill Cove known as “Sandbar” completed in 2008, changed hands on Friday. It had been listed in 2009 for $9.9 million and in January was on the market for $7.8 million. The sale is among the highest ever paid for a Compo area home.
The transfer recorded in the Town Clerk’s office listed Frederic W. Levin and Wende A. Cohen as the sellers. The buyer was listed as Summer & Spring LLC, a limited liability company that was created Jan. 31 with Yixia Si and Yuchun Chang as principals, according to the Secretary of the State’s database.
Cohen, who owned Bungalow, a French antique and gift store in Westport’s Sconset Square for 14 years, promoted sale of the property in a 2009 video aired on a New York television station.
She said in a 2009 newspaper interview that she and her husband, a retired partner in a Wall Street firm, had decided to move with their five children to Aspen, Colo., explaining: “Life is short, and neither of us need to be in Fairfield County as this stage of our careers.”
She added: “Because my husband and I both love to ski, hike, bike and be very physical every day, we found Aspen to be just an incredible wonderland, filled with people who love the outdoors, and great restaurants, and lots of culture.”
Cohen said the most challenging aspect of building their Compo Mill Cove home was the site logistics.
“Since we were unable to bring equipment or supplies to our site, other than by the footbridge, for the first few years of the project we leased a World War II Higgins landing craft that delivered building materials, construction machinery, dumpsters, site trailers and portable toilets, all of which had to be staged out of a dock in Bridgeport,” she said.
Cohen said the couple has a summer home in Nantucket “for that all-important beach fix.”
Listing agent was Michelle Genovesi from William Raveis and selling agents were Susan Tracy and Jean Studwell from the Higgins Group, Christie’s Great Estates.
