WestRock chairman’s riverfront Goochland estate sells for $2.8M
The estate at 330 Flag Station Road has a circular driveway enclosing a rose garden and fountain. (
Photos courtesy CVRMLS)
A riverfront estate previously owned by former heads of a Richmond Fortune 500 company and downtown ad giant The Martin Agency is remaining in local hands after a multimillion-dollar sale.
The Oaklea estate at 330 Flag Station Road sold Wednesday for just over $2.82 million. The purchase includes the 6,700-square-foot main house and 32 of the nearly 35 acres that were listed for sale last August, with a roughly 2-acre buildable lot still available.
Anne Chewning with The Steele Group | Sotheby’s International Realty had the listing, representing sellers John Luke Jr. and Kathleen Luke. John Luke is non-executive chairman of packaging company WestRock and was CEO of its Richmond-based predecessor MeadWestvaco.
December 30, 2020
This 261-acre estate at 8899 River Road in Henrico sold for $10 million, the priciest home sale in 2020. (
BizSense file photos)
With a record-breaking buyers’ market that defied the pandemic through the bulk of 2020, the year in residential real estate had so many deals that our annual ranking of the priciest sales couldn’t be contained to just the top 10.
Two sets of ties on this year’s list make the 2020 ranking 14 deals deep. And those don’t even include some of the seven-figure sales that turned the most heads this year, with notable names such as Ukrop and Aaron Brooks involved. Even tennis great Billie Jean King took part in the paperwork for a sale that starts off this list.
Real estate brokerage buys local peer, extends reach toward the Bay
December 11, 2020
Doug Dorsey, center, with SRMF’s Scott Ruth, Mahood Fonville, Scott Shaheen and John Martin, from left, outside Select Properties’ Irvington office.
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Expanding its footprint into river country, a homegrown residential real estate brokerage has picked up a local peer in a deal that adds its fourth office in as many years.
Shaheen, Ruth, Martin & Fonville Real Estate has purchased Select Properties of Virginia, a 21-agent brokerage led by Doug Dorsey with offices in Richmond and the Northern Neck.
The deal, which includes Select’s office in Irvington, closed Wednesday. SRMF’s Scott Shaheen said terms are confidential.
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