The Moving Trucks Roll In

Another banner week for home sales as new families move in to enjoy summer in Scarsdale.  Lots of sales and featured listings below.

Sales:

35 Brookby Road

Colonial reminiscent of the French countryside. Enter through a gate enhanced by stone walls and maples, weeping willows, flowering dogwoods, all surrounded by a babbling brook. This property has been sold with both the house that sits on 1.75 acres and the additional tax lot at 0.73 acre.

Sale Price: $3,525,000
Taxes: $75,914

4 Burgess Road

Colonial on a level .60 acre with a patio and 20 x 40 pool with Jacuzzi. Renovated and expanded in 2000. First floor has an entry with staircase, living room with fireplace, dining room, large kitchen with island and breakfast area. Kitchen has sliding doors that lead to patio. A study, office and full bath complete this level. Five bedrooms, slate roof, permanent generator.

Sale Price: $2,300,000
Taxes: $51,510

12 Forest Lane

Classic six bedroom, 3.2 bath colonial with oversized living room with stone fireplace and French doors to a wraparound deck, a spacious dining room and a gourmet kitchen with center island, breakfast area and family room.

Sale Price: $2,203,000
Taxes: $38,215

21 Vanderbilt Road

New construction in Heathcote. Hardwood floors, custom millwork and carefully executed details throughout. Kitchen with stainless appliances and breakfast area. Adjacent family room with fireplace and doors to deck in flat backyard. Central vacuum, master bedroom suite with luxury bath and two walk-in closets. Walk-out lower level with huge recreation/exercise room plus caregiver bedroom/bath. Large closets and storage throughout. Convenient second floor laundry. Heated attached two-car garage with fully-outfitted mud room. Professionally landscaped with trees, specimen plantings, and lawn sprinkler.

Sale Price: $2,130,000
Taxes: TBD

19 Olmsted Road

Contemporary style home in Fox Meadow. New St. Charles kitchen with Calacutta Gold counter-tops and backsplash. Stainless appliances include Viking six burner Professional series range and Sub-Zero. Sprawling "loft-like" space with high ceilings dominated by large windows throughout.

Sale Price: $1,995,000
Taxes: $29,705

78 Carthage Road

Renovated tudor with entrance foyer, living room with fireplace, formal dining room, large family room with door to yard, modern eat-in kitchen with door to patio/pool and natural gas barbeque, guest powder room. Second Floor has the master bedroom with two large walk-in closets, master bath with double sinks, whirlpool tub, toilet room, steam shower. Additional three bedrooms, hall bathroom and laundry room. Third floor has an open area, bedroom with hall bathroom and storage. Lower level has a playroom, gym, crafts room/office. Two car garage with loft area.

Sale Price: $1,789,000
Taxes: $40,981

22 Aspen Road

Renovated home with five bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms features living room with fireplace and oversized windows, family room with cathedral ceilings, dining room, eat-in-kitchen with vaulted ceilings, skylight, Sub zero refrigerator, granite countertops, sliders to the large patio, first floor master bedroom with walk-in closet, master bathroom, two additional bedrooms, hall full bathroom, bedroom/study, powder room. Second floor features one more bedroom with en suite bath, entertainment room/playroom with high ceilings. Amenities include hardwood floors throughout, central air, upgraded electric, two car garage. Located on 0.35 professionally landscaped acre.

Sale Price: $1,760,000
Taxes: $36,010

65 Greenacres Avenue

Traditional center hall colonial on private one third acre with in-ground gunite pool. Special features include updated kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite counters, three new Anderson sliders, all rooms very generous in size, cheerful above ground lower level with door out to pool and property, laundry room off kitchen with separate entrance, loads of closet and storage space throughout, attached two-car garage, level backyard with total privacy.

Sale Price: $1,650,000
Taxes: $30,859

21 Rectory Lane

This home offers five bedrooms and four full renovated baths. The living room with picture windows facing south has a fireplace. Enjoy a renovated eat-in kitchen with new bay windows. Also on the main floor is a dining room and guest bedroom/office with adjoining full bath. A few steps up to a second floor with master suite to the left and the other two bedrooms/bath to the right. The lower level (above grade) has a family room, windowed porch with granite floor, bedroom and full bathroom with steam shower. A laundry room that opens to a two car garage is accessed from this floor. This home is on .37 acre property with fenced in backyard. An application from builder Bobby Ben Simon to demolish the home was approved at the July 21st meeting of the Committee for Historic Preservation.

Sale Price: $1,600,000
Taxes: $33,778

1209 Post Road

This historic farmhouse (the Tompkins-McCabe house) was originally built in 1799 and has been beautifully renovated and expanded. It sits on .67 acre of property with landscaped flowering gardens that bloom continuously throughout the seasons. This Colonial farmhouse has six bedrooms, three baths and a powder room. There is also a legal cottage on the property with a bedroom, full bath, living room and kitchenette. Amenities include a covered porch, original wide-plank wood flooring, two-car garage, gas heat, multi-zone heat and central air, alarm system, sprinkler lawn system, new master bath, two wood-burning fireplaces, and a state-of-the-art professional chef's kitchen with island. Renovations blend antique charm with modern amenities. This unique property offers a private setting, a restored farmhouse, professionally cultivated gardens and a cottage.

Sale Price: $1,464,000
Taxes: $31,198

272 Boulevard

Colonial home offers entry foyer with guest closet, powder room with a window, living room with fireplace, dining room, updated kitchen with breakfast area and sliding glass doors out to a deck and yard. Off the kitchen is a door that goes to the driveway. Second Floor: Master bedroom with two closets, large bedroom and third bedroom has a walk-in closet. Updated hall bathroom with high ceiling and skylight. Walk-up attic. Lower level is unfinished with laundry area. Many improvements: kitchen, second floor bath, windows, central air, gas furnace.

Sale Price: $838,000
Taxes: $16,379

142 Boulevard

Fox Meadow home with freshly painted interior, newly refinished hardwood floors, wood burning fireplace, walkout basement with playroom and walk-up attic (additional 315 square feet). Scarsdale and Eastchester town privileges include resident membership rights to Lake Isle Golf And Tennis Club (small portion of house in Eastchester).

Sale Price: $780,000
Taxes: $9,813

Edgemont:

21 Argyle Road

This classic colonial features four bedrooms, two and a half baths and has been completely renovated in 2004 with Pella windows and doors, partial new roof (2011), copper gutters, a new electrical system, central vacuum, and central air. The updated cooks kitchen features a Wolf double oven and six burner stovetop and griddle, Subzero refrigerator, wine cooler, marble countertops and Waterworks tile. The kitchen opens to the dining room. A living room with wood burning fireplace and a family room complete the first level. Upstairs features a master suite with a dressing room, three bedrooms and a hall bath. There is also a finished attic and walk out basement. Outside, the wrap around deck (accessed through both the kitchen and living room) faces east with views of the sunrise and overlooks terraced gardens.

Sale Price: $1,065,000
Taxes: $23,409

14 Kaateskill Place

This home features a deck overlooking the level private yard on the end of a cul-de-sac and gardens with specimen plantings. Recent improvements include kitchen/bath updates, refinished hardwood floors, new carpet and more.

Sale Price: $600,000
Taxes: $21,768

Featured Listings:

49 Carthage Road,
Scarsdale

BRAND NEW FOR 2016! Opportunity for you to customize, if you wish. 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath Colonial to be built in sought after Scarsdale Heathcote neighborhood by respected 2nd generation builder. Special features include 9ft. high ceilings on all three levels, tray ceiling in Master bedroom suite, Kitchen open to Family room accessing backyard patio, Great location convenient to Elementary School, Scarsdale Pool Complex, 5 Corners shopping and Scarsdale train station. You can have it all in Scarsdale. For more information, click here.

List Price: $1,895,000

5 Robin Hill Rd, Scarsdale PO, Edgemont

Privacy and proximity. This unique house is close walking distance to elementary, high school, train, and village amenities on a quiet street. It sits on top of Robin Hill with a half-acre of two sub-dividable lots, far from the street providing privacy in both the front yard and seclusion in its huge park like backyard. Lower level has a playroom with separate entrance to patio and backyard. New lighting fixtures added throughout the inside and outside of house. Bessler attic added in 2013, in addition to attic space on bedroom level. Many landscaping additions to property throughout including 8 mature Crabapple and Dogwood trees, miniature irrigation system installed at front of the house for Rhododendrons, Azaleas, and flower beds. Newly stained and polished wood floors with fresh coat of paint on inside and outside of house. For more information, click here.

List Price: $1,275,000