A custom estate on more than 6.6 acres in Wadsworth sold for $1.38 million, the highest-priced home sale publicly reported in the Cleveland, Ohio metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
The week’s five highest-priced reported sales came to $5.70 million combined, with closings in Wadsworth, Rocky River, Westlake, Shaker Heights and Chagrin Falls. Build years run from 1929 to 2017, and the five take in a Georgian Colonial in Shaker Heights, a house in the Lake Lucerne community in Chagrin Falls and an architect-designed estate on acreage in Medina County.
No. 1 — $1,375,000 · 5841 Penwood Dr, Wadsworth, Ohio
A custom estate on more than 6.6 acres at 5841 Penwood Drive closed on August 11, 2026 for $1,375,000, the highest-priced home sale publicly reported in the Cleveland metro area for the week. The four-bedroom house, built in 2002 and reported at 4,978 square feet, carries a Wadsworth address in Sharon Township, Medina County, within the Highland Local School District.
Listing materials identify Jack Arnold as the architect and Steve Moore as the builder of a house drawn from European country cottage design. Wide-plank character hickory flooring and custom inset cabinetry by Swiss Wood Craft run through the main level, where the kitchen opens to a vaulted great room and a private library is lined with knotty pine bookcases and centered on an English basket gas fireplace.
The grounds hold mature trees, wooded walking trails, a fenced garden with raised planting beds and a water garden crossed by a footbridge. A cedar barn measuring 40 by 40 feet, built in 2005, takes landscaping equipment, hobby farming or workshop use.
Jeffrey R Curtis of Howard Hanna was the listing agent. The $1,375,000 closing put him at the listing side of the highest-priced home sale reported in the Cleveland metro area for the week, No. 1 in RealtyWire’s Cleveland Metro Area Top 5. The estate went under contract 4 days after the current listing date, and it previously changed hands for $1,350,000 in 2024. Leanne Saffer of Keller Williams Citywide represented the buyer.
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No. 2 — $1,325,000 · 2781 Country Club Blvd, Rocky River, Ohio
A 2017-built house at 2781 Country Club Boulevard in Rocky River changed hands August 12, 2026 for $1,325,000, the second-highest reported sale of the week. Vaulted ceilings rise over an open main floor of a reported 5,885 square feet, where a kitchen with custom cabinetry and a large peninsula island runs into the main gathering rooms.
Three more bedrooms and a bonus room sit on the second floor, and a deck at the rear steps down to a stone patio. The finished lower level adds more than 1,900 square feet, with a home theater and custom bar, a workout room, a fifth bedroom and a bath built around a custom steam shower. A three-car garage completes the property, which stands near Westwood Country Club and Clague Park.
Alison M Baranek of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Stouffer Realty was the listing agent. The sale closed $25,000 above its final asking price of $1,300,000 and went under contract 21 days after the current listing date, ranking No. 2 in RealtyWire’s Cleveland Metro Area Top 5 for the week. Anne Marie Peacock of RE/MAX Crossroads Properties represented the buyer.
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No. 3 — $1,050,000 · 28948 Weybridge Dr, Westlake, Ohio
A 1997 house at 28948 Weybridge Drive in Westlake closed August 12, 2026 for $1,050,000. Reported at 5,166 square feet, it stands in the Estates, a Westlake neighborhood with a community pool and tennis courts, minutes from Crocker Park and the Lake Erie shore.
A two-story foyer opens to a living room whose glass doors give onto a private patio framed by hedges, and a great room with a gas fireplace and a wall of windows flows into an eat-in kitchen rebuilt between 2021 and 2023. A first-floor bedroom with a walk-in closet and full bath can serve as an office or guest suite, while a wrought iron staircase leads up to an owner’s suite with a bump-out room and a bath redone in 2023. A deck, a built-in grill and a three-car side-load garage complete the property.
Carolyn M Wilson of Keller Williams Citywide was the listing agent. The house went under contract 3 days after the current listing date and closed $75,000 above its final asking price of $975,000, ranking No. 3 in RealtyWire’s Cleveland Metro Area Top 5 for the week. The property previously changed hands for $492,500 in 2010. Thomas J Locker Ii of Howard Hanna represented the buyer.
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No. 4 — $1,000,000 · 2742 Belvoir Blvd, Shaker Heights, Ohio
A Georgian Colonial built in 1929 at 2742 Belvoir Boulevard in Shaker Heights sold for $1,000,000 on August 14, 2026. A two-story center hall with a wrought iron staircase opens the plan, with a living room finished in crown molding and a marble-surround gas fireplace to one side and a walnut-paneled library with a second gas fireplace straight ahead.
The formal dining room flows to a kitchen designed by Christopher Peacock, with integrated appliances, hardware and lighting. Upstairs, the primary suite has a tray ceiling, a private dressing area with a custom walk-in closet and a bath with a spa tub, a tiled shower and a heated floor. French doors off the living room open to a tiered patio and grounds laid out by California landscape architect David Thorne. The house is reported at 5,058 square feet and includes a finished lower level.
Josephine L Chapman and Karen Nordstrom of Howard Hanna were the listing agents. The property went under contract the same day the current listing went live and closed $25,000 above its final asking price of $975,000, the No. 4 sale in RealtyWire’s Cleveland Metro Area Top 5 for the week. It previously changed hands for $480,000 in 2005. Susan T Delaney of Howard Hanna represented the buyer.
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No. 5 — $945,000 · 17158 Eastview Dr, Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Five houses from the lake in the Lake Lucerne community, a 1956 residence at 17158 Eastview Drive in Chagrin Falls closed August 10, 2026 for $945,000. The contractor-owned house sits on three-quarters of an acre, is reported at 3,900 square feet and has been expanded and renovated over the years; it is served by the Kenston schools.
The first-floor owner’s suite occupies its own wing, with marble flooring, quartzite counters, dual vanities, an oversized walk-in shower and a freestanding soaking tub; three more bedrooms and two renovated baths fill the opposite wing. American cherry floors and raised ceilings run through the open main rooms, where a birch-paneled ceiling and a sandstone fireplace define the great room and the kitchen holds custom cabinetry, two dishwashers and a center island seating five. Sliders from the dining area open to a covered veranda under a vaulted ceiling, and a mudroom with heated floors leads to a heated two-car garage. Lake Lucerne residents swim and fish in the lake and gather for year-round neighborhood events.
Mary Frances LaGanke of Howard Hanna was the listing agent. The property went under contract 5 days after the current listing date and closed $66,000 above its final asking price of $879,000, taking the No. 5 place in RealtyWire’s Cleveland Metro Area Top 5 for the week. It previously changed hands for $395,000 in 2006. Dan S O’reilly of RE/MAX Revealty represented the buyer.
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RealtyWire selected these transactions from publicly reported residential sales identified for the calendar week ending Sunday, August 16, 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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