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Spring real-estate sales in Amenia

Spring real-estate sales in Amenia

This Amenia home at 44 Cascade Mountain Road with 2,592 square feet on 1.1 acre sold for $512,500 on April 18. It is one of three houses which sold for less than a million dollars in March and April.

Christine Bates

Even without Silo Ridge sales included, Amenia real estate activity in March and April demonstrates the wide separation between the affordable and luxury home market.

There were two sales of homes under 1,300 square feet on small parcels for $320,000 and $351,000 and another larger home for $512,500. The luxury home market begins with the three properties sold for over a million dollars up to almost $4 million. Currently there are five actively listed homes for sale under $500,000 in Amenia and two over $500,000 with 14 parcels of vacant land to build your own home.

3 Prospect Avenue, a 2 bedroom/1.5 bath home sold on March 22 for $320,000.

3364 Route 22, a 3 bedroom/2 bath house with a Dover Plains post office sold on April 15 for $351,000.

44 Cascade Mountain Road, a 3 bedroom/ 2.5 bath house sold on April 18 for $512,500.

26 Jerry Lane, a 4 bedroom/4.5 bath home with 6 acres sold for $1,145,000.

355 Popular Hill Road, a 5 bedroom/3 bath home built in 1752 with 182.8 acres sold on April 3 for $2,150,000.

173 Kennel Road, a 4 bedroom/4 bath home on 173 acres sold on March 4 for $3,888,000.

*Town of Amenia real estate sales for March and April are closing date sales as presented in Multiple Listing Services and do not include private transactions, like those at Silo Ridge, that are not publicly listed. All property sales are recorded by Dutchess County but will only be published starting in July. Compiled by Christine Bates, Real Estate Salesperson with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty, Licensed in CT and NY.

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