Rhode Island’s $17.7million sale nearly hits Taylor Swift’s record – Reuters

Taylor Swift is still topping the charts, both with her new album “Midnights” and with the record-breaking 2013 purchase of her $17.75 million Rhode Island home at 16 Bluff Avenue, which is the price the highest ever paid for residential property in both Watch Hill and Washington County.

But Swift, who claimed Billboard’s entire Top 10 Streaming Songs this week, was nearly knocked from her local real estate throne when the seven-bedroom home at 2 Kidd’s Way in Watch Hill known as “Treasure Hill sold for $17.7 million last week, according to the Journal de la Providence.

Neither the buyer nor the seller have been identified in the media. But the official pre-sale owner, according to appraiser records obtained by the Providence Journal, was Diane McLean of Sarasota, Florida, who bought the three-story mansion for $5.5 million in 2007. was recently appraised for $8 million. , records show.

Lori Joyal of Lila Delman Compass represented the seller, while Olga Goff represented the buyer, according to a press release.

The 11,000-square-foot mansion, which sits on one acre, also has eight bathrooms, 13 bedrooms, an elevator, a gym and sauna, a wine cellar, a billiards room and views of the the Atlantic Ocean as well as access to the beach. The grounds also include a heated saltwater pool with a waterfall. And while the Treasure Hill sale didn’t set an area record, it was the largest in Rhode Island this year, the Providence Journal reported.

But there was at least one residential record set in Rhode Island last week. The historic Thomas Poynton Ives home at 66 Power Street in Providence sold for $5.5 million, the highest sale ever in the city, according to Providence Business News. The 11,000 square foot mansion has 12 bedrooms and six bathrooms and was completed in 1805. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970.

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