Real Estate
Here Are The Most Recent Property Sales In Ridgefield
Five homes changed hands in Ridgefield on Aug. 7 and Aug. 10, with a top price of $1,650,000, according to Zillow.com.
RIDGEFIELD, CT — Four closings on a single Monday and one on the Friday before it — Ridgefield's most recent sales cluster is the kind of week that makes real estate trackers sit up straight. Here's a look at the five most recent transactions recorded on Zillow.com, newest to oldest.
Four properties all closed on Aug. 10, and together they span a price range of $500,000 to $1,650,000 with barely a dull number among them.
The week's top sale by price is 33 Hunter Lane, a four-bedroom, four-bath single-family that sold for $1,650,000. The home offers 3,377 square feet on a full acre and at approximately $489 per square foot, it posts the second-highest price-per-foot among the Aug. 10 closings. Hunter Lane is one of those Ridgefield addresses that combines residential privacy with accessibility to the town center — a pairing that commands a reliable premium in this market — and four full baths across 3,377 square feet gives a buyer exactly the kind of configuration that justifies a $1.65 million decision.
1 Spectacle Lane closed at $1,524,000, the second-highest sale of the day. The four-bedroom, five-bath single-family offers the largest interior footprint of any home in this batch at 4,464 square feet on one acre. At roughly $341 per square foot, it is also the most affordable on a per-foot basis among the single-family sales — a reflection of just how much space buyers were getting for their $1.524 million. Five baths across 4,464 square feet is a generous configuration by any measure, and Spectacle Lane is an address with exactly the kind of evocative Ridgefield name — equal parts scenic and slightly mysterious — that tends to make buyers feel good about where they have landed.
103 Cedar Lane sold for $980,000 — the week's third-highest sale price and a home that tells its own interesting story on a per-foot basis. The four-bedroom, two-bath single-family encompasses 1,854 square feet on one acre, and at approximately $529 per square foot, it posts the second-highest price-per-foot of the entire week's batch, trailing only the remarkable figure at 10 Clearview Drive. Four bedrooms in under 1,900 square feet on a full acre at just under a million dollars represents a specific kind of Ridgefield buyer: someone willing to pay top dollar for location and land, comfortable with a more compact interior, and not losing any sleep about the square footage.
The most striking number in this entire roundup belongs to 10 Clearview Drive, which closed at $500,000 — the week's lowest sale price — and yet produces the highest price-per-square-foot of any property in the batch at an extraordinary $707 per square foot. The two-bedroom, one-bath single-family sits on a quarter-acre lot and spans just 707 square feet of living space. In raw dollar terms, this is the most modest transaction of the week. In per-foot terms, it outpaces a $1.65 million home. That figure — $707 per square foot for a 707-square-foot house — is either a remarkable coincidence of numerics or a very deliberate way of underlining just how expensive compact, well-located Ridgefield real estate has become for buyers who want a foothold in town without the full estate price tag.
Rounding out the week, 9 Green Lane closed Aug. 7 at $1,595,000. The four-bedroom, three-bath single-family is the week's most generously lotted property at 2.0 acres, offering 3,801 square feet of living space at roughly $420 per square foot. Two acres of Ridgefield land is a meaningful statement — enough for genuine seclusion, a proper lawn, and the kind of buffer from the neighbors that buyers in this price tier tend to consider non-negotiable. Green Lane is a quiet address that lives up to its name, and a four-bedroom, three-bath home on two wooded acres at just under $1.6 million is the kind of package that generates competitive interest.
What this says about the Ridgefield market: Four closings on a single Monday — all four single-family homes, all four on at least a quarter-acre, spanning $500,000 to $1,650,000 — is as clear a picture as you'll get of a market operating at full throttle in midsummer. The week's defining data point, however, is not the top price but the per-foot figure at 10 Clearview Drive: $707 per square foot for a 707-square-foot home is a number that captures in a single statistic what is happening at Ridgefield's entry level. When the town's smallest and least expensive sale in a given week trades at the highest per-foot price, the message is not subtle. Ridgefield buyers are paying for the address regardless of the square footage, and the market is pricing that privilege accordingly.