Park Hill mansion nabs highest priced home sale in July
Amy August 2, 2016 1
The backyard of the home at 1909 Forest Parkway.
The co-founder of PorchLight Real Estate Group had a hot property for sale last month: her own.
PorchLight co-CEO Carol Freyer Bayer's South Park Hill home sold for $2.5 million on July 1, making it the highest-priced residential property to sell in the Denver area that month, according to multiple listing service REColorado.
She kept half the deal in-house. PorchLight broker Taylor Lawton listed the seven-bedroom home at 1909 Forest Parkway, which was built in 1919 and renovated by the owners prior to Bayer. He said his favorite spot is the back porch.
"They have a nice covered patio overlooking the yard," he said. "Today it's a lot more common to have that, but those older homes, they're not so inside-outside living friendly."
The house sold for $335 per square foot. The Kentwood Company represented the buyer.
Besides the patio, the backyard sports a log cabin-style playhouse with a climbing wall and tire swing.
Lawton said the house, which sits on a third of an acre at the southwest corner of E. 19th Avenue and Forest Parkway.
Carol Freyer Bayer and Amy Bayer founded PorchLight in 2005 and serve as co-CEOs of the company. PorchLight currently lists 148 broker associates on its website.
According to Denver property records, Carol Freyer Bayer purchased the house four years ago for $2.3 million.
The buyer is Stephen P. Gottesfeld, an executive vice president and general counsel of Newmont Mining Corporation. Gottesfeld was an associate at Holland & Hart before joining Newmont in 1997.
July marks the first time this year that the price tag on the highest-priced home to close in a given month has dipped below $3 million. A newly-built house in Highlands Ranch sold for $6.7 million in May, making it the most-expensive real estate to close in 2016 so far.
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