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Frozen real estate in the Ice Box

Frozen real estate in the Ice Box

Housing the offices of the Great Mountain Forest and the ICBX Café, 10 Station Place was sold for $750,000. Built in 1898, it was originally the train station for the Central New England Railroad.

Christine Bates

By Christine Bates

NORFOLK — The 12-month trailing median price for a single-family home, excluding condos, in Norfolk — known as the “Ice Box of Connecticut” — fell to $320,000 for the period ending July 31, 2026. Over the last year, the rolling 12-month median peaked at $526,500 in September 2025.

The current median of $320,000 is 22% below the $410,000 recorded a year ago and 16% below the $381,500 median for the comparable period ending July 31, 2024, unlike other towns in the Northwest Corner, which have seen rising values.

Norfolk median prices remain well below the 2007 “bubble level” of $550,000, but are back strongly from their lowest point in March 2017 of $166,000.

Closed sales of single-family homes occur about once a month in quiet Norfolk, with 11 sales in the 12 months ending in July 2026, compared with 12 in the comparable 2025 period and and 17 in 2024. Like the rest of Litchfield County, Norfolk saw its most active period during the pandemic-era housing boom, with 38 homes sold from March 2020 to March 2021.

Inventory of one- and two-family homes for sale reached 14 in early August, about a year’s inventory. Higher priced homes dominated the market with four over $1,000,000 and not one under the current median price of $320,000.


Norfolk Transfers

January

10 Station Place – 3,619-square-foot commercial building in the center of Norfolk transferred by Ten Station Place LLC to 10SP LLC for $750,000

February

177 Estey Road – 2.3-acres of vacant land transferred by Rocky Road Norfolk LLC to Courtney Leclair for $320,000

March

321 Litchfield Road – 2 bedroom/2 bath home on one acre transferred by Jason and Joy Benoit to Christina Roy and Orion Newall for $245,000

123 Goshen East Street – 3 bedroom/2 bath home on 5.99 acres transferred by Peter Coffeen to Diane Marucci for $625,000

27 Westside Road - 0.24 acres of vacant land transferred by estate of James Curtiss to Eliza Anastasia Hazel Little Trustee and Eliza Anastasia Hazel Little Revocable Trust for $40,000

April

70 Colebrook Road – 4 bedroom/2 bath home on 9.16 acres transferred by Megan Tashash and Baxter Poe to Kathleen Paskus, Tamara Jean Willoughby and Kristine Kathleen Sepanek for $550,000

20Lovers Lane – 3 bedroom/2 bath ranch on 1.87 acres transferred by Kerry and Katherine Yelsits to Tyler James Yelsits for $300,000

93 Greenwoods Road – 6 bedroom/1 bath home transferred by Judith Louise Anderson to Vito Anthony Parisi and Yvonne Louise Beroud for $290,000

May

16 River Place – 2 bedroom/1 bath home on .07 acres transferred by Thomas Mattson to Parrish House Inc. for $65,000

June

81 Laurel Way Extension – 3 bedroom/2 bath cape on 7 acres transferred by Norman Peter Chesler Jr. to Rachel Miller and Lewis Feuer for $617,000

78 Deerfield Road -4 bedroom/4 bath home on 2.8 acres transferred by George Case Trustee, George S Case Revocable Trust and Mary Bell Case Trustee, Mary Bell Case Revocable Trust to Winter Mead for $1,750,000

21 Haystack Woods Road – property transferred by Foundation for Norfolk Living Inc. to Diane Radcliff for $180,000

200 North Street- property transferred by Michel Sinclair to State of Connecticut for $90,000

July

None

* Town of Norfolk real estate recorded as transferred between January 1, 2026, and July 31, 2026 provided by the Norfolk Town Clerk. Property details from Town of Norfolk tax cards and CT MLS where available. Transfers with no consideration are not included. Compiled by Christine Bates, Real Estate Salesperson with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty, Licensed in CT and NY.

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