New Construction
Local Realtors provided a few of the recently completed and to-be-built homes across the county, to give buyers some ideas of the new possibilities awaiting them. Construction was completed this year on 261 Cognewaugh Road in Greenwich’s Cos Cob community. This five-bedroom contemporary home is situated on 1.01 acres of level, landscaped land. The 6,900 square feet of interior space is bright and airy, with high ceilings, lightly finished hardwood floors, and sophisticated entertaining spaces, served by a eat-in chef ’s kitchen.
Gloria Falcon and Berkshire Hathaway Home Services New England Properties’ brokerage in Greenwich represents the seller. “This high-end brand-new home—filled with natural light, high ceilings and stunning finishes—features an open floor plan, with great flow for everyday living and entertaining,” Falcon said. “The dramatic family room, with a soaring beamed ceiling and fireplace, opens to the flagstone patio and outdoor fireplace.”
To bring this home to life, there was a team behind the project, which included Frank Usowski of Francis Development, Architect Chad Nehring, and Glow Home Solutions, which contributed to the interior and exterior design. Home staging was completed by GSD Home Staging.
“The house is on 1 acre, and buyers coming to the suburbs appreciate having more land,” Falcon suggested. “The location, right off Mimosa, gives you easy access…with privacy and peace, but still seven- to 10-minutes away from everything.” 261 Cognewaugh Road is offered to the market for $4.1 million. Earnest luxury-market buyers may appreciate that there’s already town approval for a future pool site.
Overlooking Five Mile River, at 87 Lambert Road in New Canaan, is a 2.75-acre setting that will be the future home for a brandnew transitional farmhouse-style luxury home. Eliza Stichter and Regi vanderHeyden—the vanderHeyden Stichter Team at William Raveis Real Estate—are the listing agents.
“There is a considerable demand for new construction in New Canaan,” vanderHeyden reported. “We find that buyers truly want to customize and/or personalize every
inch of their home with the highest degree of craftsmanship. Building a custom home with a renowned firm like Coastal Construction allows you to do exactly that — whether that means two offices in a home, a world-class gym, window-wall doors, you name it, the list goes on. But the point here is that people want what they want. To start, airy open spaces with soaring windows that are then paired with a growing desire for the more practical new and green, sustainable materials now used in the building process. Then on to remarkable finishes!” The plans are in place for the 7,200-square-foot home, the Realtors describe as elegant, sophisticated, and built with exem
plary craftsmanship. “This impressive new build awaits the most discerning buyer, and allows endless opportunity to build the home you’ve always wanted, nestled on a simply breathtaking parcel, on one of the most beautiful tracts of land with an incredibly convenient and coveted location that New Canaan has to offer,” vanderHeyden suggested. The asking price is $5.495 million.
“The market for new construction is more vibrant than ever in Fairfield County, Realtor Jaime Sneddon reported. “It’s true that supply chain disruption, demand for labor, and higher land prices has made building new homes more time consuming and much more expensive. For that reason, many developers slowed down or stopped building new homes, making their supply even more scarce, which has driven up demand for them and consequently prices.”
Jaime Sneddon and Kendall Sneddon of William Pitt Sotheby’s New Canaan brokerage are the listing agents for 49 Tobys Ln., New Canaan. This property, listed for $4.495 million, also represents an opportunity for the buyer to custom-build a five-bedroom, roughly 6,000-square-foot home on 2.22 acres.
The lot is part of a cul-de-sac community, and plans for the home can be brought to life by within a 12-month timeframe, according to the developer and builder, Chris Bunici of Woodcrest Homes. He’s assembled a team for the project that includes the architectural firm, Dennis Peters Designs; Interior Designer Tara Coniglio of the Haley Design Company; and an internal landscaping design team.
The newly constructed home will feature 10-foot ceilings, high-quality windows and doors, open-concept living, custom cabinetry and designer fixtures.
“And energy costs are dramatically lower, due to ultra-high efficiency gas-fired heating and cooling systems,” Sneddon noted. “And new homes require no updating or improvement costs or hassles for the first eight to 10 years of ownership, so why would anyone buy an old house?”
Construction is underway at 15 Burr Farms Road in Westport’s Long Lots neighborhood. This contemporary-inspired colonial home is sited on a level 1-acre lot that listing Realtor Judy Michaelis of Coldwell Banker Realty describes as: