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Newport County’s real estate agents were inundated with phone calls after the quarantine lifted last June. Knee-jerk cancellations from COVID-weary renters, coupled with inquiries from work-from-home city slickers fleeing metro areas, forced agents to quickly pivot into high gear.
As a result, the Newport County rental market soared. The Multiple Listing Service recorded 626 leases here in 2020, versus just 399 in 2019. Of those, 75 were above $5,000 per month, versus 37 above that common summer price range in 2019.
“This won’t stop people from coming. They will have more confidence in 2021,” says Tina Wiley of Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty. “We were already seeing them look for next summer in December.”
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Newport, Rhode Island. Architect Richard Morris Hunt designed Hilltop in 1870, blending styles to evoke a baronial estate. The five-bedroom house features Moorish arches, carved doors, stained-glass windows, a tiger mapleâand-oak staircase, oak tinder beams and joists, window seats, stone and carved-wood fireplaces, a tiled Moroccan oven, and stone loggias.
The 3-acre lot near downtown Newport is landscaped with lawns, shrubs, specimen trees, and daffodil beds. $2,999,000. Jose Aguon, Gustave White/Sotheby s International Realty, (401) 263-4168.
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Set among some of Newport, Rhode Island’s most lavish and famed summer “cottages” the understated name given to the Golden Age mansions once belonging to wealthy elites, including the Vanderbilts and Astors a lavish estate has just sold for $3.58 million.
Known as Gravel Court, the white-sided manor changed hands on Sunday for the first time in four generations, according to the listing, held by Kate Kirby Greenman and Michelle Kirby of Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty.
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Jamestown. Inwood is a cedar-shingled, five-bedroom home overlooking Mackerel Cove. The open-plan house includes a living room with French doors to a large mahogany deck and a screened porch; a library with a patio; a chef s kitchen with a butler s pantry; and a main bedroom with a spa bathroom and a balcony.
The 2.8-acre landscaped lot features an arbor path to the water s edge and is half a mile from the beach and area parks. $4,995,000. Nicole Carstensen, Mott & Chaceâ/Sotheby s International Realty, (401) 633-5968.
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The details: 4,961 square-foot main house built in 1850; two bedroom guesthouse; subdividable acreage