DECEMBER 2023
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Proudly celebrating 35 years of client-dedicated service! 48 Housatonic St., Lenox • 413-637-4200 www.berkshirehouses.com • info@berkshirehouses.com
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LENOX - Very careful attention was given to all the details in a top to bottom renovation of this gracious, lovingly restored Victorian. The home has many original period details, but with today’s amenities. Whether indoors in one of the two parlors, formal dining room, or gourmet cook’s kitchen, resting or reading in one of the four bedrooms, soaking in the primary en suite tub, playing or working in the third level expansive finished space, or lingering outside on one of the sun-drenched porches overlooking the professionally landscaped double lot with Goshen stone patio, fully equipped outdoor kitchen, and studio, you can enjoy every moment of Berkshire living, with the added convenience of being so close to downtown, to Tanglewood, and to Kennedy park. This is the Lenox in-town home of which you have dreamed. Call to arrange your private showing.
HINSDALE - Looking for privacy and a bit of acreage? Be sure to see this wellmaintained saltbox colonial. Dating from 1986 but incorporating many features found in historic homes from colonial days. Kitchen/family room with wide plank floors, stone fireplace, exposed beams. Three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, formal living w fireplace; formal dining, first floor office/playroom. First floor laundry. Primary bedroom suite fireplace, outfitted walk-in closet; updated bath with tiled shower. Breezeway leads to oversized two-car garage with bonus room above. Nicely sited back from the road. $539,000/R3205
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RICHMOND - Come home and enjoy the country living on a spacious lot at the end of a dead-end street. If you’re seeking one-level living, this home can work! Main floor features a living room with hardwood, bedroom, full bath, and a dining room (or bedroom/ office) that opens to a rear deck. Laundry is incorporated into the eat-in kitchen. Accessed from inside the house, the second floor area consists of one large, finished bonus room above the oversized garage offering lots of usage possibilities. Convenient to West Stockbridge village, swimming at Richmond Pond, and over the mountain to Tanglewood. $329,000/R3206
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BERKSHIRE COUNTRY MEADOWS “TO BE BUILT” – PITTSFIELD Work with the builder to customize your 2-3 bedroom home from one of 4 remaining lots in this established community of single family condominiums. Enjoy on-site pool, tennis, fitness/clubhouse. Starting at $759,000 or purchase development rights and work with your own builder! Call for details! Boating at Pontoosuc Lake just down the road. C3050
LENOX - Wonderful opportunity if you’re seeking land and a spacious home! This 2800+ sq foot colonial boasts 4 to 5 bedrooms and sits on an acre lot! Sited nicely back from the road, privacy abounds. Hardwood floors, updated kitchen, woodstove, natural gas heat and attached two car garage. Minutes from hiking at October Mountain State forest and kayaking. Updated electric, town water and sewer. Privacy fence with patio with amazing outdoor pizza oven! $599,000/R3199
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OPPORTUNITIES IN ALL PRICES TO BUILD YOUR OWN HOME
IN THE HEART OF THE BERKSHIRES! Much more than a piece of raw land, this estate parcel conveys with many permits in place to streamline your building process This mountain-top retreat includes over eight private acres, but presents significantly larger as it borders a fourteen-acre parcel of town conservation land! Enjoy the serenity of views over mountains and meadows Hike from your front door to enjoy mature hardwood forest and year-round brook. Permits for well, septic, scenic mountain and conservation work in hand Constuction-grade driveway in place to the ideal building site Two miles (5 minutes) to the main gate of Tanglewood and/ or Kripalu! $549,000/L2733
SAVOY - This is your one-of-a-kind opportunity to realize the dream of country living in the Berkshires! Looking to create a compound? Subdivision? Gentleperson’s farm? City escape? With over 130 acres and 2000 feet of road frontage options abound on Loop Road The left side includes over 100 acres and the right side with the additional 30 that abut state forest Hike right from your door $495,000/L3055
LEE - Invest in a one-of-a-kind, undeveloped property located in the heart of the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. Conveniently located off I-90, a main artery between Boston and NY, this property has unlimited potential From a tranquil brook to ample locations for privacy and views from each potential building point, the apex of this property offers breathtaking vistas that go on for miles. Close to Tanglewood, Goose Pond and Appalachian Trail $825,000/L3003
LENOX - Design your dream home and make this cul-de-sac neighborhood the site of your new home! Underground utilities, natural gas, town water and sewer This 1 8 acre parcel Close to Lenox center, Lenox Middle and High School Minutes from cultural attractions and outdoor recreation! $209,000/L2970
DALTON - Beautiful parcel of land on 3+ acres Conveniently located, completely cleared, level, open parcel bordered by woods for privacy Access to public sewer and public water source at the entrance to the lot Gorgeous mountain views during every season - ready for building your new home $149,900/L3113
RICHMOND - Thinking of building? Take a look at this two plus acre lot at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in Richmond! The blending of a neighborhood setting with large parcels allows for privacy when siting your new home Served by underground utilities and surveyed Close to all cultural attractions $114,900/L3188
SAVOY - Wow – a chance to build your new home in Savoy! Over eighteen acres on a paved road for easy access, this gently sloping lot affords privacy and some southerly views! Value option with north and central county attractions within an easy drive $59,900/L3192
PERU - Here’s your opportunity to build your dream home on this raw land with electric on the road, fiber-optic available. It has privacy and views from paved cul-de-sac, 1 mile from Lake Ashmere! $26,900/L3174
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LEE - Build your dream home on Valenti Farm Road! This twelve acre parcel with roughed-in drive leads you to a delightfully private level building site. The paved cul-de-sac consists of five lots in total. This is the last lot - and the largest! Underground utilities - water, sewer, electric and cable Location is wonderfully convenient to Lee/Stockbridge, MA turnpike This is an opportunity not to be missed if a new home is in your future! $230,033/L3172
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by Lynn Arseneau
I’ve been a Realtor for 36 years. People frequently ask for my advice and opinions, and by sharing those questions and answers with you, I hope to offer some helpful information
Dear Lynn, Make sushi! Lay down the (butter them first). You get • Lower inventory I know your column skin and fill it with turkey, the picture. Unlock your • Less competition is about buying and cranberries, sweet potatoes, cake pan removing the sides. • End of year bonuses selling houses but last year olives, peas, and wasabi then Using hot mashed potatoes • Tax refund expectations (you can even use instant) People searching for a home you shared recipes using roll and slice! Thanksgiving left overs. I Everyone loves Jello! Make frost your cake. Add some in the cold weather means have a little bit of turkey a Jello mold and add all the cranberry sauce and parsley they’re serious. and all the fixings and I just left overs to it. Chill and to the top as garnish. Voila! Be sure your home is toasty hope to heaven that I do not serve. I’ll bet your family and warm! If you have a fireplace have to throw anything out! guests will be so…so…um… light it. Yes, a nice food I would love some more great surprised! aroma (not too much) IS ideas! What do YOU think? Let me share my “meatloaf homey. Keep your driveway, Signed, cake” idea that I found years sidewalks, and front steps On A Wing and a Prayer ago. Warm up all of this super clear. As always, remove prior to assembling. Using clutter, clean like a machine, Hi! ground turkey, mix with any Dear Lynn, and put away personal and The holidays are upon Love your name! left-over veggies and gravy to valuable items. us and snow is in the Remember, you do not bind it. Put half of that into always have to include turkey the bottom of a cheese cake air. Is it a good idea to put in your left-over creations. pan that’s on a serving plate. our house on the market Be creative! Use other food Next, add a layer of sweet now or wait till spring? items that you have in your potatoes and then more of Thanks, cabinets to create some your turkey mixture then Selling my Ho! Ho! Home unforgettable meals. some more sweet potatoes. Dear HHH, Place donuts on a platter You can add to the layers: Some reasons to sell and fill the center with creamed onions, mashed in the winter months: stuffing and gravy. Yum! squash, cut up dinner rolls
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