Real Estate
60 Columbian avenue in Oak Bluffs sold for $461,000 on Sept. 14.
West Tisbury
Marc Rosenbaum and Jill De La Hunt purchased 235 Great Plains Road in West Tisbury from Jeffrey J. Lovett for $421,000 on Oct. 1.
Jenny Brody and Peter M. Brody purchased 62 Ophelia Way and a portion of 30 Ophelia Way in West Tisbury from Myrnice M. Ravitch, trustee of the Ravitch Family Realty Trust, for $965,000 on Oct. 1.
Michael Carroll purchased 39 Old County Road in West Tisbury from James H. Paquette, trustee of Shovelhead Realty Trust, for $497,000 on Oct. 3.
As the Chilmark planning board continues to grapple with the question of how to regulate very large houses, the board looked to the town of Wellfleet this week as a possible model. At the planning board meeting Tuesday, a former member of the Wellfleet planning board gave strong words of encouragement to his counterparts in Chilmark.
The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $29,960 for the business week ending on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012.
The Vineyard Gazette this week announced publication of the first Martha’s Vineyard Real Estate Yearbook, an annual resource guide for anyone interested in buying or selling property on the Island. Published in partnership with LINK, the primary multiple listing service for Martha’s Vineyard, the yearbook provides a comprehensive look at property transactions by town and neighborhood over the 12-month fiscal year that ended July 1, 2012.
The Aquinnah zoning board of appeals this week denied two variances for an Aquinnah property owner who wants to build a bridge or culverts across land he owns off Moshup Trail. James Decoulos, a Cambridge engineer, has been trying to win the right to build a house on the two-plus-acre property for 14 years.