Residential Real Estate

A mystery buyer snagged the top sale along Three Chopt Road, while a pair of lawyers purchased the second-priciest home from an LLC tied to a local moving and storage company.

“Looking at recent comps, some off-market but mostly on-market, Richmond has been on fire,” said agent Margaret Wade, who listed both homes and recently sold another at $3 million.

The seller was a director at plumbing and HVAC distributor Ferguson Enterprises. A new-construction home on Riverside Drive was the month’s second-highest sale.

The 50-year-old house in Midlothian’s Huguenot Hundred neighborhood is a replica of the Ashley House, a 1730s-era dwelling that restorer Okey Turner knew from his time in Massachusetts.

The years-in-the-making project in the city’s Northside is planned to add about 125 attached and detached for-sale homes with a mix of income-based and market-rate units.

The seller is Tim Messier, the former CEO and board chairman of Medalist Diversified REIT who departed the firm last year amid pressure from shareholders.

“When you look at all the items that you have to put in a development to get recommendations for approval, you can’t develop and provide any type of workforce housing,” George Emerson said.

The project from local developer Ned Massie would fill 66 acres northwest of the Airport Drive-Interstate 295 interchange.

At $9 million and $7.5 million, back-to-back sales of two mansions along Cary Street Road led a record-breaking month for residential real estate deals in the city.

The sale came two weeks after a nearby mansion apparently tied to this one set a new high mark for residential sales in the city.