River Valley Real Estate

PROPERTIES FOR SALE

	NEWBURY, MA List Price: $625,000 MLS #: 70835505 Agent: Joanie Purinton (978) 462-6898 DETAILS, PHOTOS	A spacious country Victorian in the most lovely residential setting. Character, space, features: a substantial homestead. Some finish work needed. Grand barn/carriage house/garage! Large eat-in kitchen with maple custom cabinetry. In-ground private pool surrounded by wooded lands. Title V approved. Elegant front entry with carved newell posts; pine floors; brick fireplace, bay window. Three full baths. Back stairs, plus 1990's huge family room open to kitchen. Walk-up attic, solid basement

	IPSWICH, MA List Price: $449,900 MLS # 70794690 Agent: Patricia L. Skibbee (978) 465-8851 DETAILS, PHOTOS	You will find a rarely reached level of perfection in this early home, an outstanding star in a town known for its galaxy of fine restorations. Four F/P, chamferred oak summer beams, tall ceilings, 3 completely gorgeous levels of living. Total restoration completed in 2002. EVERYTHING is done. Top-drawer kitchen, private patio, wide pine floors, custom murals, two staircases, great room, vaulted ceiling master suite. Beautiful, move-in home; a pleasant walk to downtown restaurants, train station

	WEST NEWBURY, MA List Price: $949,000 MLS # 70796827 Agent: Joanie Purinton (978) 462-6898 DETAILS, PHOTOS	A wonderful 1887 country Victorian completely restored. Cook's kitchen. Large 1990's addition with separate 2 floor,4 room apartment with private landscaped entrance. Completely restored and modernized with 15 rooms, 5 bathrooms, decks and balconies. Elegant curved staircase. Landscaped gardens and gazebo. Country setting on quiet road only 10 minutes to Newburyport's downtown. a fine country gentleman's property a few minutes from the Artichoke Reservoir and miles of trails.

	BOXFORD, MA List Price: $749,000 MLS #: 70778862 Agent: Joanie Purinton (978) 462-6898 DETAILS, PHOTOS	Beautifully situated Georgian country house on quiet rd. 2.63 acres surrounded by 20+acres of conservancy land with trails to a "great pond." 9 gracious traditional rooms meticulously maintained. First floor master suite, 5 bed rooms, 24' fireplaced livingroom. An elegant, easy living style harmonizing with outdoor lawns, terraces, gardens. 3-stall barn with paddock, fields and trails makes this a perfect equestrian property. Set on a quiet country rd. 50 min. from Boston.

	WEST NEWBURY, MA List Price: $598,000 MLS # 70759031 Agent: Patricia L. Skibbee (978) 465-8851 DETAILS, PHOTOS	Pleasantly rambling 3600+ sq ft cape on 2.2 acres of level lawns and gardens. Ten rooms, 3 full baths, formal dining room with huge fireplace & sunny bay window with views to the grounds. Living room with fireplace & spacious family room with beautiful pine floor and woodstove & patio doors to roomy deck. Office, media room, attached two-car garage, round brick garden. Set well back from the country road. This home is in lovely condition; an inviting space in a great town!

	NEWBURY, MA List Price: $1,500,000 MLS #: 70741832 Agent: Joanie Purinton (978) 462-6898 DETAILS, PHOTOS	An extraordinary architect’s contemporary set high at the end of a dead end road on 2.3 acres. Breathtaking 360-degree views of the Newbury tidelands with Plum Island and the ocean to the East. Open living with a gourmet marble and mahogany core kitchen. Sunlight and sea air pours into arched cathedral windows. Privacy, elegant entertaining, and ease. A very special property abutting a wildlife refuge. Three season, 3-room guest cottage for summer guests. 7 min. to Newburyport.

	NEWBURY, MA List Price: $1,180,000 MLS #: 70669607 Agent: Joanie Purinton (978) 462-6898 DETAILS, PHOTOS	Arts and crafts shingle style retreat on 2.29 acres - a short trip to Newburyport and Plum Island. Exceptional architectural design and finishing. Stained glass doors and windows, stone fireplace, domination 24 ft. living room, gourmet cook's kitchen of oak, marble, granite. Tower addition with library/studio overlooking woods and lovely landscaped gardens. An oak, mahogany, cherry interior is warm and gracious. 3 bedrooms - a perfectionist's home, designed for entertaining.

	NEWBURY, MA List Price: $595,000 MLS #: 70677580 Agent: Joanie Purinton (978) 462-6898 DETAILS, PHOTOS	Magnificent 180 degree water views with 75 ft. of basin frontage on Plum Island. Beach your boat outside your house. Swim from your own beach. Open floor plan. Contemporary with 26' deck on the water. A fabulous opportunity to own tidal waterfront on a small dead end street.

	NEWBURYPORT, MA List Price: $178,000 MLS #: 70446790 Agent: Patricia L. Skibbee (978) 465-8851 DETAILS, PHOTOS	Central chimney true colonial on a fine half acre in the special agricultural/conservation zone of Newburyport, in an area of over 500 acres of conservation land, including Maudslay State Park. This property is a total rehab project, with city water and gas lines in the street, and successful perc test done. Some original features intact: gorgeous chimney arch, 4 fireplaces, moldings, big rooms, early doors. This antique house must be preserved, and new space can be added! Complete optional architect plans included. Country living in Newburyport! Approved 3 bedroom septic plan incl. Seller will pay for septic. New fencing. Some structural work has been done 2008. 2-car garage can be built!
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	NEWBURYPORT, MA List Price: $1,200,000 MLS #: 70647187 Agent: Joanie Purinton (978) 462-6898 DETAILS, PHOTOS	The John Buck house, built in 1810 for a sea captain. A perfectionist’s museum restoration of one of Newburyport's finest high style federal mansions. Two grand good- morning staircases, paneling, 14 fireplaces, window seats. All new systems. Liveability, elegance, proportion, classic beauty of original architectural features. Carriage house & Williamsburg gardens.

	NEWBURY, MA List Price: $285,000 MLS #: 7062142 Agent: Patricia L. Skibbee (978) 465-8851 DETAILS, PHOTOS	Private, wooded building site close to Newburyport, Boston train, ocean beaches and Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. Idyllic private roadway off Middle Road in rural area. 10 acres of abutting Greenbelt conservancy land enhances the beauty of the site. This is the only remaining lot of the original four. Call and we will come walk it with you! Perc test successfully completed!

	NEWBURY, MA List Price: $250,000 MLS #: 70622948 Agent: Patricia L. Skibbee (978) 465-8851 DETAILS, PHOTOS	Fine rural building site on country road -- 3.7+ acres, a grassy building site with 900'+ deep lot for privacy/buffer. Private site. Septic plan for four-bedroom house included. Town water and electricity on street.

	WESTFORD, MA List Price: $309,900 MLS #: 70446790 Agent: Patricia L. Skibbee (978) 465-8851 DETAILS, PHOTOS	Outstanding early Twentieth Century Colonial wonderfully refitted for comfortable 2007 living: new appliances, bright, open fir-floored kitchen/dining room, new crown moldings, 20' front-to-back living room open to fireplaced family room. Double-run light oak stairway leads to the roomy second floor with three bedrooms & sparkling tiled bath. Walk-up attic! Front flagstone floor foyer and rear mudroom are both practical & attractive. Private, spacious rear deck overlooks grassed yard with garage

	NEWBURY, MA List Price: $490,000 MLS #: 70176122 Agent: Joanie Purinton (978) 462-6898 DETAILS, PHOTOS	Country federal overlooking mill pond in Byfield village. Period features & 3 fireplaces circa 1780 & new addition and garage. River & acres of conservation land. Rural road.

	SOLD		SALE DATE: May 29, 2008 SELLING PRICE: $573,077.50

	SOLD			SALE DATE: May 23, 2008 SELLING PRICE: $817,500

	SOLD	SALE DATE: June 27, 2008 SELLING PRICE: $350,200

	SOLD	SALE DATE: March 20, 2008 SELLING PRICE: $905,200


	SOLD	SALE DATE: March 31, 2008 SELLING PRICE: $365,000

	SOLD	SALE DATE: March 31, 2008 SELLING PRICE: $328,000
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