One Sharon home sold above $1 million in October and November transfers

This one level home on 74 Hilltop Road with 1,004 square feet built in 1961 was sold for $415,000 on October 22, 2024.
Christine Bates

This one level home on 74 Hilltop Road with 1,004 square feet built in 1961 was sold for $415,000 on October 22, 2024.
October was another busy month in Sharon with ten sales recorded that month and four transfers in November. Transfers in both months were almost all in the affordable range with a surprising number of off-market, private sales in October. During this two-month period nine single family homes sold for below $500,000 with only one closing above $1 million. The inventory of homes for sale has remained level at over 20 listings with more than half asking over a million in early December.
Sharon November Transfers
189-195 Amenia Union Road — 3 parcels totaling 59 acres were sold by Bauhaus 2 LLC to Warren Grant Trustee for $1,775,000.
120 East St. — 2 parcels of farmland of almost 50 acres sold by John Montgomery Lynch Trustee to James D. Leahy for $575,000.
40 River Road — 3 bedroom/2.5 bath home on 2.7 acres sold by David O. Bailey to Martin J. Cuatchon and Hannah E. Kerr for $600,000.
6 Silver Hill Road — 3 bedroom/2 bath house sold by Tyler H. Drosdeck to Eileen Dingle for $450,000.
Sharon October Transfers
212 East St. — 3 bedroom/1 bath house on 2.23 acres sold off market by Estate of James A Norton to James and Katherine Shepherd for $465,000
99 King Road — 2 bedroom/1 bath home built in 1800 sold by Estate of Patricia Omalyev to Matthew Garippa and Samantha Aycart for $300,000.
75 Mitchell Town Road — 2 bedroom/1.5 bath home sold off market by Shirley A. Hoffkins and Shirley A. Leibrock to Cole T. Leibrock and Carly A. Leibrock for $330,000.
West Cornwall Road — Residential vacant lot sold privately by Kim Preston Dube to Philip R. Baldwin.
294 West Cornwall Road — 3 bedroom/1 bath home sold privately by Kim Preston Dube to Debra Ann Preston for $375,000.
74 Hilltop Road — 2 bedroom/1 bath ranch sold by Stephanie Pitman to Suzanne Quain Trustee and Sandra Mary Krizman Trustee for $415,000.
4 Upper Main S., Unit #6 — 2 bedroom/2 bath condo sold by Xiaoyan Wang to Jacqueline M. Fitzpatrick for $288,000.
45 Herrick Road – 2 bedroom/2 bath home on 3.65 acres sold privately by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB Trustee and Cascade Funding Mortgage Trust AB2 to David Schneiderbeck for $530,000.
65 King Road – 3 bedroom/2.5 Cape Cod home sold by Alan Denker to Dimitri Zagoroff for $501,000.
456 Route 7 - 5 bedroom/5 bath home sold by Werner Doyle MD and Janet M Standard to Michael and Susan Katz for $2,075,000.
* Town of Sharon real estate sales recorded as sold between Oct. 1, 2024, and Nov. 30, 2024, provided by the Sharon Town Clerk. Property details provided in town tax cards. Note that recorded transfers occur after the actual real estate closing and may also include private sales. Current market activity from Smart MLS. Transfers with no consideration are not included. Compiled by Christine Bates, Real Estate Advisor with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty, Licensed in CT and NY.
Connecticut will kick off 2026 with nearly two dozen new laws that are slated to wholly or partially take effect on Jan 1.
The laws touch a range of areas in the state, from farming to pharmaceuticals to housing to the justice system.
Connecticut laws are passed by the General Assembly during the legislative session each year — this year’s ran from Jan. 8 to June 4 — or in a special session. They typically take effect on Jan. 1, July 1 or Oct. 1.
Here’s a look at some of the laws that will be implemented on day one of the new year.
Most of H.B. 8002, a sweeping, contentious housing bill, will take effect on Jan. 1.
The bill’s major goal is to make it easier to build more housing in Connecticut. It requires towns to create housing growth plans with goals on how many units they’ll plan and zone for, changes minimum off-street parking requirements and incentivizes towns to take steps to allow more housing, among other measures.
It also expands the number of fair rent commissions — a government body that can hear complaints about rent increases and make decisions on whether to change that rental increase number — and bans “hostile architecture,” or the use of things like armrests in the middle of benches or spikes to make it harder for people experiencing homelessness to lie down.
The bill was a modified version of H.B. 5002, which Gov. Ned Lamont vetoed during the 2025 legislative session, saying he wanted to get local leaders on board with the measure. Behind the scenes, he and advisors fretted over the political implications of signing the measure as they received thousands of calls from opponents and Lamont considered a third-term run next year.
Lawmakers passed H.B. 8002 during a two-day special session from Nov. 13-14, and Lamont signed it into law on Nov. 26.
Condo complexes can no longer enforce provisions in their bylaws that “prohibit or unreasonably restrict” owners of single-family detached units from putting solar panels on their roofs under a new bill that also creates a solar panel approval process for condo unit owners and their associations to follow.
Existing condo associations can opt out of these requirements if at least 75% of their board of directors votes to do so. However, that vote would need to occur by Jan. 1, 2028.
Connecticut already restricts planned community associations from prohibiting solar panels. The new law is essentially an expansion to include condos as well.
Learner’s permit holders must take an eight-hour course prior to getting their driver’s license under existing law, and Connecticut currently allows students to take it both in-person and through distance learning. Beginning Jan. 1, anyone taking the class remotely must keep their camera on, and driving schools can now charge up to $200 for it (the previous limit was $150).
Under that same law, as of Jan. 1 many applicants for a driver’s license or learner’s permit — as well as drivers convicted of violating highway worker safety laws — must complete a program administered by the Department of Motor Vehicles on highway work zone and roadside vehicle safety awareness.
All 16- and 17-year-old driver’s license applicants who get a learner’s permit beginning Jan. 1, 2026 must take the program, as well as adult driver’s license applicants who meet certain requirements (like having not previously held a Connecticut license or not currently holding a valid license issued by another state, territory or country).
On Jan. 1, Connecticut’s minimum wage will increase by $0.59, from $16.35 per hour to $16.94 per hour.
That increase comes from a law signed by Gov. Ned Lamont in 2019 that, as of 2023, pegs the state’s minimum wage to the federal employment cost index.
Connecticut currently has the fourth highest state minimum wage, behind $16.66 in Washington and $16.50 in California and most of New York. Massachusetts and Rhode Island require a minimum wage of $15.
The Connecticut DMV will begin issuing commemorative license plates that recognize “The Borinqueneers,” the U.S. Army’s 65th Infantry Regiment made up largely of Puerto Rican servicemembers who served with distinction in the Korean War.
The plates will cost $60. They will be designed in consultation with the Hispanic-American Veterans of Connecticut Inc., and that group will receive $45 from the sale of each plate for bilingual services and assistance to the state’s veterans and current servicemembers.
HVRHS’s Victoria Brooks navigates traffic on her way to the hoop. She scored a game-high 17 points against Nonnewaug Tuesday, Dec. 16.
FALLS VILLAGE — Berkshire League basketball returned to Housatonic Valley Regional High School Tuesday, Dec. 16.
Nonnewaug High School’s girls varsity team beat Housatonic 52-42 in the first game of the regular season.
The atmosphere was intense in Ed Tyburski Gym with frequent fouls, traps and steals on the court. Fans of both sides heightened the energy for the return of varsity basketball.
HVRHS started with a lead in the first quarter. The score balanced out by halftime and then Nonnewaug caught fire with 20 points in the third quarter. Despite a strong effort by HVRHS in the last quarter, the Chiefs held on to win.
Housatonic’s Victoria Brooks scored a game-high 17 points and Olivia Brooks scored 14. Carmela Egan scored 8 points with 14 rebounds, 5 steals and 4 assists. Maddy Johnson had 10 rebounds, 4 steals, 2 assists and 2 points, and Aubrey Funk scored 1 point.
Nonnewaug was led by Gemma Hedrei with 13 points. Chloe Whipple and Jayda Gladding each scored 11 points. Sarah Nichols scored 9, Bryce Gilbert scored 5, Gia Savarese scored 2 and Jazlyn Delprincipe scored 1.
CORNWALL — At the Dec. 9 meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission, the commission had a pre-application discussion with Karl Saliter, owner of Karl on Wheels, who plans to operate his moving business at 26 Kent Road South, which is an existing retail space.
Saliter said he will use the existing retail section of the building as a mixed retail space and office, and the rear of the building for temporary storage during moving operations.
There will be no external “personal” storage proposed for the property.
The commission decided that Saliter should go ahead with a site plan application under the regulations for “retail stores and trades.”
P&Z also set a public hearing on a proposed text amendment on dimensional requirements for properties in the West Cornwall General Business (GB) zone. It will be held Jan. 13, 2026, at 7 p.m. at the Cornwall Library.