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Cheese Spring Road Home Sells for $2,750,000

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. **

April 4

716 Cheese Spring Road

$2,750,000
Aaron Vinten to Benjamin Goldman

180 Park St., Unit 201

$1,695,000
M2 Partners LLC to Jean Bothwell

157 East Ave., Unit 157

$1.8 million 
Richard Brookshire to Brian Zeilinger-Goode

April 3

54 Lakeview Ave. #54 

$1.1 million
Mary Anne Hersam, executor, to Betsy Sue Shannon

44 Benedict Hill Road

$2,150,000
Herbert & Dorothy Kunstadt, trustees, to Josephine Hoh

April 2

143 Old Studio Road

$3,350,000
Kathryn Giusti to Christopher P. Bailey

392 Brushy Ridge Road

$3.4 million
Brian Klapper to Indre Gordon

772 North Wilton Road

$4 million
772 N Wilton LLC to Baywood LLC

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Brooks Road Colonial Sells for $2 Million

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

March 26

16 Brooks Road

$2 million
Christopher Bailey to Andrew Stinchfield

1022 Silvermine Road

$2,584,205
Andrew Deery to Roy Campbell III

55 Fitch Lane

$1,450,000
Julia Bookbinder to Peter Antonopoulos

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‘Grossly Excessive, Disproportionate and Unlawful’: Commercial Property Owner Appeals Tax Assessment

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The owners of two contiguous commercial buildings in downtown New Canaan are challenging the town’s decision to forgo an appeal hearing following a tax revaluation that the plaintiffs describe as “grossly excessive, disproportionate and unlawful.”

Numbers 62 and 64 Main St.—antique mixed-use buildings located just south of the fire station (the former Knights of Columbus building and the next one across the alley, which houses Ching’s Table among other tenants)—are owned by a limited liability company whose managing principal is Stephen Lawrence, president of Investment Capital Partners Ltd., according to local tax and Connecticut Secretary of the State records. The properties were assessed at $1,150,170 (62 Main St.) and $1,465,800 (64) in a recent revaluation. The Board of Assessment Appeals’ decision to forgo appeal hearings leaves the valuations unchanged. According to a complaint filed Tuesday by attorney Michael D. Reiner of Farmington-based Greene Law P.C., the assessments are “manifestly excessive, unlawful and could not have been arrived at except by disregarding the statutes for determining the taxation and valuation of the Premises.”

Though the property owner “appealed to the Board of Assessment Appeals of the Town of New Canaan claiming to be aggrieved by the action of the Assessor and offered to be sworn and answer all questions concerning the property,” still, “the Board elected not to conduct an appeal hearing related to this commercial, industrial, utility or apartment property with an assessed value in excess of one million dollars,” Reiner said in the complaint. Town records show that appeals scheduled for March 13 for both properties were “dismissed” by the Board.

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Carter Street Colonial Sells for $3,125,000

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

March 22

153 Carter St. $3,125,000
Joseph Lizzio to Zachary Cressman

March 21

391 Weed St.

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Condo at ‘Vue New Canaan’ Sells for $1,825,000

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

March 14

160 Park St., Unit 201 

$1,825,000
M2 Partners LLC to DAE FT Trust5

March 13

133 East Ave. $1,150,000
Alessandro Recchia 2015 Revocable Trust to 133 East LLC

March 12

40 Ogden Road

$650,000
Ogden Carroll, co-executor, to Lawrence J. Reichardt

March 11

289 New Norwalk Road, Unit 31

$1,215,000
Estate of Klaus E. Schroeder to Vincent W. Foley Jr.