Sold storyCaptain's house on Fairlead Street (Sample)

An old house, an honest report and five offers

A sea captain's house from 1887 had every flaw an old house can have. We named each one up front, and it sold in eleven days.

Sold for: $3,150,000
Listed at: $2,975,000
Sold on: March 27, 2026
Days on the market: 11
Offers: 5

A stone house on two floors, with a wide cream porch and dark shutters. A small glass lookout sits on its tile roof. — From outside: The house and its rooftop lookout

The home

The house on Fairlead Street had been in one family for sixty years. It had its first stair, its first doors and a small lookout on the roof. It also had old pipes, a tired roof and a porch that leaned.

Old homes scare some buyers. They fear what they cannot see. The sellers feared a long, slow sale with a price cut at the end.

The plan

We paid for a full inspection before the house went on the market. Then we gave the whole report to every buyer who asked. Nothing was left for a buyer to find later.

The sellers fixed the roof and the porch. We priced the old pipes into the asking price and said so. We also wrote a short history of the captain and his lookout, with a plan of each floor, for the buyers.

The result

Buyers knew just what they were getting, so they could bid with a clear head. Five offers came in over eleven days. The home sold for more than the asking price.

The new owners are redoing the pipes this year. The lookout stays as it is.