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Sold: Homes Purchased in Wellesley, May 16 - 20

We've started the list, but now we're calling on agents and home sellers to post your sales here.

  8 Nobscot Rd Sold For: $780,000 List Price: $775,000 Sold Date: 5/16/2013  Sq. Ft.: 1,740 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Full, 1 Partial Garage: 1  5 Wingate Rd Sold For: $1,200,000 List Price: $1,249,000 Sold Date: 5/16/2013 Sq. Ft.: 2,652 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Full, 2 Partial Garage: 1  85 Grove Street #108 Sold For: $714,000 List Price: $669,000 Sold Date: 5/17/2013 Sq. Ft.: 1,512 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 full Garage: 1 Wondering what other homes sold in Wellesley? Patch is too, and we're hoping our readers and real estate agents can help us answer the question. Do you know of a home sold in one of our towns this week? If you do, let us know. Here's how:  Thanks for contributing! 

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Home Staging and the Appraisal

We are in the middle of a thriving spring market here in Massachusetts and many Sellers are seeing huge benefits to pricing their homes right and presenting them well.

Wellesley Home of the Week: 53 Windsor Rd.

This delightful Cape is the ideal property for homebuyers looking to enter the Wellesley real estate market.

  This enchanting Wellesley Cape immediately exposes its charm curbside with its vintage features that include period architecture, stone walls, mature greenery and a distinctive wood front door. Inside, the home provides sentimental glimpses of its past with exposed beams and period touches, but also many contemporary elements with its abundance of glass, a gourmet kitchen and open floor plan. Prospective homebuyers will quickly appreciate the effortless flow of the main level. The journey begins with an expansive 22 x 13 square foot living room with a cozy fireplaced alcove and French doors that open into an intimate 16 x 11 square foot formal dining area surrounded by picture windows and drenched in walls of customary colonial blue. The…

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New Homes For Sale in Wellesley This Week

Find homes for sale in Wellesley on this page every week, from our partners at Zillow.

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House Hunt: Open Houses in Wellesley, May 18 - 19

Whether you're looking to buy or sell, take advantage of Patch's weekly real estate roundup.

Real estate agents & DIY homesellers, this is your space. Upload photos of the houses you're showing this weekend and enter the property's details in the caption.  Wondering what homes are open in Wellesley this weekend? Patch is too, and we're hoping our readers and real estate agents can fill us in on any open houses happening in town. If you know of one, or a few, let us know. Here's how:  Thanks for contributing! Click on the big green "Upload Photos & Videos" button to get started. If you have any trouble getting the message out, send an email to Grahame.turner@patch.com.

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Sold: Homes Purchased in Wellesley, May 9 - 15

We've started the list, but now we're calling on agents and home sellers to post your sales here.

  3 Waban St #4 Sold For: $385,500 List Price: $399,000 Sold Date: 5/13/2013 Sq. Ft.: 810 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Full 27 Priscilla Circle Sold For: $961,000 List Price: $965,000 Sold Date: 5/13/2013 Sq. Ft.: 2,834 Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 3 Full Garage: 2 Wondering what other homes sold in Wellesley? Patch is too, and we're hoping our readers and real estate agents can help us answer the question. Do you know of a home sold in one of our towns this week? If you do, let us know. Here's how:  Thanks for contributing! 

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Home of the Week: 8,000-Square-Foot Colonial in Needham

This Needham estate provides features that will charm and captivate the entire family.

  This custom-designed 11-year-old Needham Colonial was created with an open floor plan, perfect for entertaining, yet also conceived for intimate, more quiet encounters. Considerable thought was given to the comfort and interests of the entire family with its 14 rooms consuming an impressive 8,000 square feet and a one acre landscape that offers a clay tennis court, heated in-ground pool with cabana and an outdoor kitchen and an indoor basketball court. Not to be outdone by its exceptional construction are the details. At every turn, prospective homebuyers will appreciate the creative architectural features and state-of-the-art accessories added that perfectly enhance its appearance and overall appeal. The two-story foyer greets guests …

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Wellesley's Jeff Raider Brings Warby Parker to Newbury Street

It will be just the second brick-and-mortar store for the 'stylish and socially conscious' eyewear company.

  Warby Parker. Ever heard of it? If not, not to worry; it's an eyewear company that might be described as hip with a side of social conscience. And the mostly-online brand is about to open only its second permanent brick-and-mortar store on Boston's Newbury Street, reports the Boston Globe. Warby Parker is the work of Wellesley-born Jeffrey Raider and three other Wharton graduates. (The Globe points out that the company has several local ties besides Raider, including Neil Blumenthal, co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, who is an alum of Tufts University in Medford  and the company being named for Jack Kerouac (from Lowell) characters. The Boston Globe story has a nice Q&A with Raider, who also has just launched a brand-new startup …

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Wellesley Businesses Taking Part in Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer

The fundraiser is happening through May 12.

  A cancer fundraiser involving sweet treats is now underway, and three Wellesley businesses are taking part.  Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer, in its 14th year, started Monday and runs through Sunday, May 12. Last year's event raised more than $78,000. Participating businesses create a special dessert to include on their menu, with proceeds from that dessert benefiting cancer research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Bakes for Breast Cancer, Inc., a non-profit breast cancer organization. Three businesses in Wellesley are taking part: 

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