Strength of the Nantucket Real Estate Market

The Nantucket Real Estate market continues to gain strength. Listings that are currently posted on the MLS as having accepted offers or purchase and sales agreements equals 9.8% of the total property listings. This is up from 8.5% one year ago. So, the market is 15% stronger than it was one year ago at this [...]

High-end Nantucket Market stays hot

It was a monster week for Nantucket real estate sales. The week ending Thursday, September 23 had a little over $65MM in total real estate volume. What is very encouraging is that there were deals across all price ranges including a huge one for $22MM that sold with an abutting parcel for $5.5MM, to a [...]

$9.5MM price reduction!!!

11 and 16 Cathcart Road located on Nantucket’s prestigious harborfront location just had a price reduction from $38.5MM to $29MM. The properties were originally priced at $55MM, which everyone knew was an astronomical asking price. Now, the Seller is getting into the realm of market value. Will update with any developments. Until next time Nantucket [...]

13 Squam Road, Nantucket Sold!

13 Squam Road closed yesterday for $12.75MM. The property has been on the market for over three years, originally starting at $19.95MM. Although the Buyer received a significant discount off the original asking price, it goes to show market stabilization, the bottom is forming and properties once again have a liquid value. Encouraging news for [...]

Hot off the Nantucket Real Estate News Press

Rumor has it that 13 Squam Road, located on Nantucket’s exclusive eastern shoreline, is under agreement for $13.07MM. It is a stunning piece of property with a house, guest house, swimming pool, tennis court and boardwalk to the beach. It originally started at $19.75MM, 3.5 years ago. Seems like a bottom is forming in the [...]

Word on the Nantucket Real Estate Street

Word on the Nantucket Real Estate Street is that 30 Easton Street received an accepted offer for just north of $15MM. Another sign that the Nantucket real estate market is stabilizing and possibly picking up momentum. As this is fresh news, don’t tell anyone I told you, wink-wink.

Hot Nantucket Real Estate News-Two Significant Price Reductions

The asking price of this Nantucket listing at 25C Washington Street has just been reduced to $1.495MM from $1.649MM. The property last traded on 9/18/06 for $1.72MM and is currently assessed at $1.639MM. This is a great value for a new 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath house in Town with peek-a-boo water views of the Harbor. [...]

Kozlowski Lowers Price to … $19.9 million

Jailed former Tyco International boss L. Dennis Kozlowski has slashed $3 million off the asking price for his oceanfront pad. Problem is the “reduced” price is still $19.9 million. Kozlowski, who is raising money to pay fines and restitution, paid bought the nearly four-acre property nine years ago for $5 million. Read Article

Third Generation, but Fourth Doubtful

Nantucket is a magnificent, but the real estate prices make it out of reach for some that have been a part of Nantucket for many generations. I was speaking with a third generation cab driver the other day and asked him what he thought about the Island now. The one thing that he highlighted was [...]

Kozlowski’s Nantucket Estate Valued at $15 million

Convicted Tyco chief L. Dennis Kozlowski’s oceanside mansion in Nantucket, where the king of lavish corporate spending hosted a $200,000 wedding for his daughter in 2003, has tripled in value since he bought it in 1997 for $5 million according to a what a top island real estate executive told the Herald. It is a [...]