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Lakes Region, New Hampshire Top 5 Home Sales: Bristol Waterfront Home Leads the Week at $3.985 Million

Homes on Newfound Lake, Lake Winnipesaukee and Lake Wentworth filled the list, from a modern home finished in 2025 to a lakeside cottage from 1950.

Lakes Region, New Hampshire Top 5 Home Sales: Bristol Waterfront Home Leads the Week at $3.985 Million

The five highest-priced home sales reported in Lakes Region, New Hampshire for the week ending November 1, 2026, came from five towns: Bristol, Meredith, Alexandria, Moultonboro and Wolfeboro. Together they totaled $10.605 million.

Two of the sales were in Grafton County, two in Carroll County and one in Belknap County. Every home on the list is a single-family home, and the prices ran from just under $4 million down to $1 million.

No. 1 — $3,985,000 · 203 Shore Drive N, Bristol, New Hampshire

Top home sale No. 1 in Lakes Region, New Hampshire β€” 203 Shore Drive N, Bristol, New Hampshire, week ending November 1, 2026

The week’s top sale was a lakefront home on Shore Drive North in Bristol, which sold for $3,985,000. It sits at the water’s edge on Newfound Lake, and its outlook is to the west, across the water to Bear Mountain, the Ledges and Little and Big Sugarloaf, much of it protected conservation land.

Built in 2006 in the New Englander style, the home is finished in clapboard and stone and lives on one floor. It has three bedrooms, three bathrooms and 3,669 square feet, the most living space of any home in this week’s five. Inside there are wood floors, natural woodwork, a wood-burning fireplace, a dining area and a walk-in pantry, and outside there is a heated porch.

The waterfront is where much of the work went. Hand-laid stonework frames a patio near the lake, and the home has its own dock and two moorings, along with beach access and views of both the water and the mountains. The 0.61-acre lot is level and landscaped, with natural shade, a shed and a two-car garage.

Durward Miller Jr. of Coldwell Banker Old Mill Properties/B was the listing agent, and Amelia J Daigle, of the same brokerage, represented the buyer in the highest-priced sale of the week.

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No. 2 — $2,280,000 · 126 Cummings Cove Road, Meredith, New Hampshire

Top home sale No. 2 in Lakes Region, New Hampshire β€” 126 Cummings Cove Road, Meredith, New Hampshire, week ending November 1, 2026

A contemporary home on Cummings Cove Road in Meredith, completed in 2025, sold for $2,280,000, above its $2.195 million asking price. It is the newest home in this week’s five. The property last sold for $464,000 in 2024, before the current home was built.

A builder put it up as a personal residence in the Winnipesaukee Colony Club, a lake community with docks, a sandy beach, a boat launch, tennis and basketball courts and shared land. The home comes with a deeded boat slip measuring 24 feet by 8 feet 6 inches, a short walk away, and it looks out over a wooded association lot toward Lake Winnipesaukee.

Inside, white oak floors of mixed widths run beneath vaulted ceilings, and a stone fireplace burns gas. The kitchen is built around an oversized island topped with honed Fantasy Brown granite that falls to the floor at each end, under a coffered white oak ceiling. Paneled Thermador refrigeration, a dual-fuel double oven, a full-size wine refrigerator and unlacquered brass fixtures complete it.

Tall Marvin doors open to a patio with a fire pit, a covered deck, a balcony and a hot tub with a view of the lake. The primary suite has lake views of its own and a marble bath with a soaking tub. The finished walkout lower level adds a home theater, a wet bar and a bunk area. The home has two bedrooms, five bathrooms and 3,558 square feet on a 0.35-acre lot, with a heated two-car garage, and it sold furnished.

Adam Dow of KW Coastal and Lakes & Mountains Realty/Wolfeboro was the listing agent, and Lindsay Goulet of BHHS Verani Concord represented the buyer.

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No. 3 — $1,790,000 · 765 West Shore Road, Alexandria, New Hampshire

Top home sale No. 3 in Lakes Region, New Hampshire β€” 765 West Shore Road, Alexandria, New Hampshire, week ending November 1, 2026

On West Shore Road in Alexandria, a hillside contemporary above Newfound Lake sold for $1,790,000. Its 1.53 acres make it the largest lot among this week’s five, and across the road the property has 120 feet of its own shoreline, where a shallow natural cove makes for easy wading. Down at the water there are a dock, room for a mooring, a deck and a storage shed, plus racks for canoes and kayaks.

Built in 1982, the home has been extensively renovated. The main living level centers on a living room with cathedral ceilings, oak floors and a fieldstone chimney with a wood stove. The kitchen has cherry cabinets, granite counters and a wine refrigerator, and the primary suite has its own sunroom and walk-in closet. Two more bedrooms open off a loft-style catwalk, and the lower level has a family room with a fireplace and guest quarters.

A composite deck runs across the front of the home, facing the lake and the mountains. In all, the home has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and 2,525 square feet, with a one-car garage equipped with an electric-vehicle charger. Wellington State Park is a mile away, and Alexandria taxpayers have access to it. The property last sold for $693,000 in 2018.

Elaina Shinn of Old Mill Properties REALTORS was the listing agent, and Margaret Duba of Granite Group Realty Services represented the buyer.

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No. 4 — $1,550,000 · 29 Harbourside Drive, Moultonboro, New Hampshire

Top home sale No. 4 in Lakes Region, New Hampshire β€” 29 Harbourside Drive, Moultonboro, New Hampshire, week ending November 1, 2026

Harbourside is a small community in Moultonboro on Lake Winnipesaukee: 16 homes on more than 50 acres, with 950 feet of shoreline, three sandy beaches, tennis courts, a pond and walking paths. A cedar-sided saltbox at 29 Harbourside Drive sold there for $1,550,000.

The home sits a short walk from the lake on a level half-acre lot, with views over the bay to Glines Island. It comes with a deeded deep-water dock that takes a boat up to 30 feet, plus space for a jet ski. The patio has been rebuilt and enlarged with new retaining walls and granite steps.

Built in 1985, the home has five bedrooms, the most of any home in this week’s five, along with three bathrooms and 3,041 square feet. The bedrooms are spread across its levels. The primary suite takes up the whole upper floor, with a loft for reading and a balcony under an electric awning. On the main floor, an updated kitchen and dining area opens to a living room with a vaulted ceiling, a fireplace with a marble surround and doors to a deck above the lake. The walkout lower level adds a family room with a woodstove and a room set aside for storing boats and water gear. The home sold furnished.

The same family owned the home for 25 years; the property last sold for $600,000 in 2001.

The home went under contract 10 days after it was listed. Steven S Bush of Maxfield Real Estate/Wolfeboro was the listing agent, and Becky Fuller of Four Seasons Sotheby’s Int’l Realty represented the buyer. Maxfield Real Estate/Wolfeboro listed two of this week’s top five sales, this one and the Wolfeboro cottage that follows.

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No. 5 — $1,000,000 · 53 Fernald Crossing, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

Top home sale No. 5 in Lakes Region, New Hampshire β€” 53 Fernald Crossing, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, week ending November 1, 2026

The oldest and smallest home on the list is a 1950 cottage on Fernald Crossing in Wolfeboro, sitting right at the water’s edge on Lake Wentworth. It sold for $1,000,000, above its asking price.

The log-sided cottage has three bedrooms, one bathroom and 960 square feet on one floor, with a screened porch and a gas fireplace. The level lot of 5,663 square feet faces south toward the lake, where the water is clear and the bottom is sandy. A new septic system serves the cottage, and there are a drilled well, a shed and gravel parking. The property last sold for $595,000 in 2020.

Martha J Trepanier of Maxfield Real Estate/Wolfeboro was the listing agent, and Susan Vail, also of Maxfield Real Estate/Wolfeboro, represented the buyer. It was the second Maxfield Real Estate/Wolfeboro listing in this week’s top five.

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RealtyWire selected these transactions from publicly reported residential sales identified for the calendar week ending Sunday, November 1, 2026. The report may exclude private, off-market, delayed or nondisclosed transactions. Prices, property details and professional representation are reported as available at publication and may be updated following confirmation from transaction participants.

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