A sale above ask, but with a catch

36 Copper Beech Road was listed at $2.595 million and closed yesterday at $2.620. The “catch” is that the sellers paid $2.9 for it in 2004.

On the other hand, the house was put out for summer rental for many years, and has been under long-term lease for at least the past two years. Rentals tend to be ridden hard and put away wet, and that opening listing price probably reflected that.

(Link goes to RedFin, which I understand requires a one-time sign-in, and readers object to that, understandably. But Zillow has already pulled the listing photos — and while I don’t know how long they’ll stay up on RedFin, they’re there as I write, so I’ve gone with that.)