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Wellesley teardowns, before and after: Fall edition

October 29, 2015 by Deborah Brown 1 Comment

Wellesley houses in the $600k – $1.2 million range just keep getting bought up and torn down in Wellesley. There’s very little buildable land in town, so the choices are plain: either buy a house and spend a mint tearing out the previous owners’ atrocious taste in bathroom fixtures and kitchen tile, or just level the entire affair and call in the architects, builders, and design teams to finally get things right.

Lately we’ve been having a recurring nightmare that our cottage is the last one standing in Wellesley. In our dream, it gets torn down as we sleep. A mob of developers, realtors, and neighbors who have stepped out of their tastefully appointed brand-new homes for a moment stand outside our place with pitchforks and torches, cheering as it falls. It’s just a dream…it’s just a dream…so far.

Here’s a before and after look at a few homes that have fallen and risen in the past year or so:

5 Thomas Rd., Wellesley
5 Thomas Rd., before, June 2014. Sold for $710,000
5 Thomas Rd., Wellesley
5 Thomas Rd., after.
Listing removed October 2015, $1,785,000
33 Hunnewell St., Wellesley
33 Hunnewell St., before. Sold 2/2014, $615,000
33 Hunnewell St., Wellesley
33 Hunnewell St., after.
June 2015, listing removed, $1,650,000
12 Garrison Rd., Wellesley
12 Garrison Rd., before.
Sold 2/2014, $767,500
12 Garrison Rd., Wellesley
12 Garrison Rd., after.
June 2015, listing removed, $1,650,000
11 Arden Rd., Wellesley
11 Arden Rd., before
Sold 12/2014 for $1,212,500
11 Arden Rd., Wellesley
11 Arden Rd., after
On market for $3,295,000
8 Patton Rd., before Sold 2/2015 for $800,000
8 Patton Rd., before
Sold 2/2015 for $800,000
8 Patton Rd., Wellesley
8 Patton Rd., after
On market for $1,899,000
16 Pine St., Wellesley MA
16 Pine St., before.
Sold 7/2015 for $1,100,000
16 Pine St., Wellesley
16 Pine St., after remodeling/expansion (NOT a teardown as we originally stated)
On market for $2,695,000

Also of interest…

Wellesley tear downs, before and after, Spring 2015

Wellesley’s Great Plain Avenue development quiet no more

Wellesley’s St. James the Great Church goes down in a heap

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  1. Joanna says

    October 30, 2015 at 8:53 am

    Take heart, a little Cape on Oak st. recently had its owner moved to assisted living. I was worried that it would become a teardown but apparently the granddaughter will be moving in. Her father is helping to fix the place up and now there will be two new children on the street! The place looks great and it gives me hope.

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