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A SWEET NEST: 
The 9,719-square-foot house known as The Bird House on Beacon Hill Road in Newport was sold by “Judge Judy” Sheindlin in September for $15.3 million, making it the highest-priced sale in Rhode Island in 2025. 
COURTESY GUSTAVE WHITE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

MORE MILLIONS: Seven-figure home sales spreading away from waterfront

The Rhode Island waterfront has always been the domain for high-end home sales as the wealthy gladly pay steep premiums for houses with a...
ADDITIONAL PAYMENT: The 11,579-square-foot home at 626 Bellevue Ave. in Newport, which sold for $30 million in 2021, is now assessed at $21.6 million. That will mean an additional $103,200 annual payment to the state under the “Taylor Swift tax” taking effect in July. 
COURTESY GUSTAVE WHITE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

How will ‘Taylor Swift tax’ impact R.I.’s luxury real estate market?

As the Ocean State’s so-called “Taylor Swift tax” is poised to go into effect this July, observers agree that for Rhode Island’s wealthiest homeowners,...
SHINING EXAMPLE: The shingle-style house known as Fowler’s Rocks in Jamestown, which includes a sweeping 6-acre yard on the east shoreline of the island, was the highest-priced house sale in Rhode Island in 2024 at $12.25 million. 
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THE HIGH-END REVIVAL: Sales of luxury homes rebound to record level...

Rhode Island’s real estate market was a big double-edged sword in 2024, and it’s not clear if that’s ­going to change anytime soon. After a...
HIGH POINT: 
Sea View Villa on Easton's Point in Middletown, which had been in the Spiratos family since 1945, was the highest-priced house sale in Rhode Island for 2023 at $15 million. 
COURTESY GUSTAVE WHITE SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

Sales of luxury homes dampened by owners unwilling to let go

Supply and demand are equally important to support a thriving real estate market, but often they’re not equally balanced. That was the case in...
MARQUEE SALE: The coastal estate known as Treasure Hill, located at 2 Kidds Way in Westerly, was the most expensive home sale in Rhode Island in 2022 at $17.7 million and one of only two of last year’s top 10 home sales to reach eight figures.
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JUST CHILLING: White-hot R.I. luxury market shows early sign of cooling...

By most measures, 2022 was a banner year for Rhode Island’s luxury real estate market. A total of 617 homes sold for more than...
TOP SALE: The $30 million sale of Clarendon Court, a 7-acre seaside estate located on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, in early September 2021 is the highest price ever paid for a home in Rhode Island. / COURTESY MIKE OSEAN

MANSION MANIA: Newport ‘cottages’ set sales records in 2021, but what’s...

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in Rhode Island in April 2020, John Hodnett worried about not only the health crisis but the effect...

Only the strong survive in R.I.’s merger-mad real estate sales market

Paul Leys in 2000 became co-owner of an independent real estate brokerage named for co-founder Gustave J.S. White, a prominent name in Newport since...
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