Newton Median Tops $1.38 Million as Upper-End Sales Dominate Late-May Closings

NEWTON -- A Country Club Road property sold for $5.5 million in late May, leading a month in which the 10 disclosed sale prices skewed heavily toward the upper end of Newton's already-elevated market, pushing the median above $1.38 million.

• MARKET OVERVIEW
• Eighteen deeds were recorded in Newton between May 28 and June 26, 2026, though sale prices were disclosed in only 10 of those transactions. Among the priced sales, the range ran from $451,050 to $5,500,000, with a median of $1,385,500. The eight transfers without disclosed prices — several of which show the same individuals appearing on both sides of the transaction — bring the raw count higher but do not contribute to price analysis. The 10 priced sales represent a moderate volume for the period.
• TOP SALES
• 48 Country Club Road led all transactions at $5,500,000. Bobby J. and Danielle Chacko sold the property to Gil Arie, identified in deed records as a trustee. The second-highest sale, 109 Wiswall Road, closed at $3,400,000; seller Elias Viktor Lindholm conveyed the property to Crestline Ventures LLC. At 69 Karen Road, a trust sold to Karen LLC for $2,153,000, while 84 Fairmont Ave. changed hands for $2,060,000, with Qing C. and Thomas M. Zuraw named as buyers. Rounding out the top five, 83 Prospect St. sold for $1,660,000; Clark and Melissa Brown Davis purchased the property from a pair of trustees.
• NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN
• No two priced sales share a street name, so a price-tier breakdown best represents the data. Three sales fell above $2 million — Country Club Road, Wiswall Road, and Karen Road — accounting for the dataset's upper tier. Two sales landed in the $1 million-to-$2 million range: Prospect Street at $1,660,000 and Fairmont Avenue at $2,060,000 (the latter sitting just above that threshold). Two sales came in between $900,000 and $1.2 million: Barbara Road at $1,111,000 and Pierrepont Road at $975,000. The three lowest disclosed prices — Linwood Avenue Unit 1 at $740,000, Boylston Street Unit 804 at $485,000, and Washington Street Unit 7 at $451,050 — were all condominiums or units, placing them in a distinct sub-$800,000 tier.
• MARKET NOTES
• Of the 10 priced sales, at least three involved condominiums or unit properties (349 Linwood Ave. Unit 1, 280 Boylston St. Unit 804, and 457 Washington St. Unit 7), all of which clustered below $750,000 — notably lower than the overall median, consistent with the price separation typically seen between attached units and single-family properties. Several of the eight no-price transfers show sellers and buyers sharing surnames or appearing in both grantor and grantee fields, a pattern common in trust formations, estate transfers, and intra-family conveyances; no sale price was recorded for any of them. Two buyers in the dataset are identified as LLCs (Crestline Ventures LLC at Wiswall Road, Karen LLC at Karen Road), and one additional LLC, Pierrepont Road LLC, acquired 20 Pierrepont Road for $975,000, indicating at least three of the 10 priced transactions involved corporate or investment-entity buyers.