The Home and Garden Television dream home in Edgartown has new owners this week ­— and they did not have to enter a sweepstakes to get the keys. Rosemary O’Brien and Eigil D. Rothe of Washington D.C. bought the house at 15 Crocker Drive on July 8 for $2,315,000.

The Oak Bluffs planning board opened discussion this week with the sellers of the former Kupersmith property in the Southern Woodlands. At issue is whether a special permit for an 11-year-old unbuilt subdivision is still valid.

Special homes are on the 2015 Cottagers House Tour which will be held Thursday, July 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Oak Bluffs. The personalities behind these varied and captivating properties are just inviting as the homes themselves.

The recent purchase of the Santander Bank property in Chilmark by the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank will serve an up-Island need, but also leaves the town with one less potential site for a public safety building.

A partnership led by a South Boston bar owner and condominium developer will pay $5.15 million for 51 acres in Oak Bluffs once planned as a luxury home development. Paul Adamson, a real estate developer who also owns Shenannigans, a South Boston pub, was the high bidder at a foreclosure auction June 26, held on the property off County Road formerly owned by Corey Kupersmith.

The Chilmark home rented by President Obama and his family for their summer vacation two years ago went on the market this week with an asking price of $22.5 million. The home off South Road is owned by David and Patty Schulte, residents of Chicago and Chilmark.