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Birmingham, Alabama Metro Area Top 5 Home Sales: Mountain Brook Home Tops the Week at $2.56 Million

A house built in 2021 in Mountain Brook sold for $2,563,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Birmingham, Alabama metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.

Birmingham, Alabama Metro Area Top 5 Home Sales: Mountain Brook Home Tops the Week at $2.56 Million

The house at 3309 Overbrook Rd sits on approximately one acre overlooking the Jemison Trail, with a reported 5,784 square feet, a pool and an outdoor fireplace. It went under contract 11 days after the current listing date and changed hands September 23, 2026 at $2,563,000. The metro’s five highest-priced reported sales for the week combined for $10.74 million.

Mountain Brook addresses took the first and third places on the list, and the other reported sales were in Liberty Park in Vestavia, Cherokee Forest and Hollywood. Construction dates among the five range from 1934 to 2021, and the closings fall between September 21 and September 25.

No. 1 — $2,563,000 · 3309 Overbrook Rd, Birmingham, Alabama

Top home sale No. 1 in the Birmingham, Alabama metro area β€” 3309 Overbrook Rd, Birmingham, Alabama, week ending September 27, 2026

Hillary Weiss of Arc Realty Mountain Brook represented the listing side of the sale, and the house went under contract 11 days after the current listing date. The transaction ranked No. 1 in RealtyWire’s Birmingham Metro Area Top 5 for the week, and it marks Weiss’s second appearance in a Top 5 roundup for the metro. ARC Realty Mountain Brook also held the listing on another sale among the week’s five. Price McGiffert of Pritchett Moore Real Estate represented the buyer.

The Mountain Brook house at 3309 Overbrook Rd sold for $2,563,000 on September 23, 2026, the highest reported price in the Birmingham metro area that week. Completed in 2021, it holds five bedrooms and five full and two half bathrooms across a reported 5,784 square feet. The site previously changed hands for $209,500 in 2019, before the current residence was completed in 2021.

The house stands in Old Mountain Brook, on approximately one acre overlooking the Jemison Trail. Listing materials identify the siding as Corten steel, set against high ceilings and walls of glass. Panoramic doors open onto the pool terrace and the outdoor fireplace. Beyond the main kitchen, the floor plan adds a gym, a game room and a second kitchen. Its setting is described as convenient to the Villages, schools, UAB and downtown.

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No. 2 — $2,286,500 · 4007 Lambert Cv, Vestavia, Alabama

Top home sale No. 2 in the Birmingham, Alabama metro area β€” 4007 Lambert Cv, Vestavia, Alabama, week ending September 27, 2026

A six-bedroom house on Lake Reynolds in the Liberty Park community, at 4007 Lambert Cv in Vestavia, took the No. 2 spot at $2,286,500. Built in 2004 on a cul-de-sac, it carries a reported 7,502 square feet, and the closing was recorded September 25, 2026. It previously changed hands for $1,277,958 in 2004.

A saltwater pool with a waterfall and an outdoor fireplace face the lake. The main level holds sitting and dining rooms, a living room with a fireplace, a keeping room with a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, a kitchen with an oversized island and the primary suite, which includes a sitting area of its own. Four bedrooms, an oversized bonus room and walk-in attic storage occupy the floor above. A daylight basement adds a recreation room, a movie room, a second kitchen, an exercise room and the sixth bedroom, and the house has garage space for two cars on the main level and three more below.

Robin Owings of RealtySouth-MB-Crestline handled the listing side of the metro’s second-highest reported sale of the week. The property went under contract 8 days after the current listing date. Megan Twitty Kincaid of Arc Realty Vestavia represented the buyer.

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No. 3 — $2,202,000 · 4400 Old Leeds Rd, Birmingham, Alabama

Top home sale No. 3 in the Birmingham, Alabama metro area β€” 4400 Old Leeds Rd, Birmingham, Alabama, week ending September 27, 2026

A renovated 1976 house at 4400 Old Leeds Rd, on approximately two acres in Mountain Brook, changed hands for $2,202,000 on September 23, 2026. It has five bedrooms, four full and one half bathrooms and a reported 5,122 square feet, and it is zoned for Cherokee Bend Elementary. It previously changed hands for $900,000 in 2026.

White oak floors run through the interior. A formal living room with a contemporary fireplace is joined on the main level by two dens, each opening through 12-foot glass doors toward the pool. The kitchen centers on a marble waterfall island and adjoins a scullery finished with a fluted marble backsplash, soapstone countertops and a second set of appliances. Vaulted ceilings top the primary suite, and a further main-level bedroom sits apart from the rest of the house. The work also brought a new roof, three HVAC systems, tankless water heaters, new pool systems and landscaping.

Jessica Daviston of Lah Sotheby’s International Realty Homewood carried the listing at the third-highest reported price in the metro that week. The sale closed $212,000 above its final asking price of $1,990,000, and the property went under contract 3 days after the current listing date. Robin Kidd of Ray & Poynor Properties represented the buyer.

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No. 4 — $1,865,000 · 2700 Mount Royal Cir, Mountain Brk, Alabama

Top home sale No. 4 in the Birmingham, Alabama metro area β€” 2700 Mount Royal Cir, Mountain Brk, Alabama, week ending September 27, 2026

At No. 4, a 1957 house at 2700 Mount Royal Cir, in the Cherokee Forest neighborhood, sold for $1,865,000 on September 21, 2026, the earliest of the week’s five closings. The transaction record lists five bedrooms and a reported 4,667 square feet.

Guy Bradley and Charles Perlis of Lah Sotheby’s International Realty Homewood shared the listing side of the sale, which ranked fourth in RealtyWire’s Birmingham Metro Area Top 5 for the week. Their brokerage, LAH Sotheby’s International Realty Homewood, also held the listing on the No. 3 sale. Mary Jo West of Keller Williams Realty Vestavia represented the buyer.

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No. 5 — $1,818,555 · 202 Bonita Dr, Birmingham, Alabama

Top home sale No. 5 in the Birmingham, Alabama metro area β€” 202 Bonita Dr, Birmingham, Alabama, week ending September 27, 2026

The sale is Lynlee Hughes’s second appearance in a RealtyWire Top 5 roundup for the Birmingham metro area, and her brokerage, ARC Realty Mountain Brook, also held the listing on the week’s highest reported sale. Debi Mestre of MD Realty LLC represented the buyer.

Built in 1934, the house at 202 Bonita Dr in the Hollywood neighborhood ranked No. 5 at $1,818,555. The four-bedroom house has a reported 4,001 square feet, and the closing was recorded September 23, 2026. The property previously changed hands for $167,000 in 1991.

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RealtyWire selected these transactions from publicly reported residential sales identified for the calendar week ending Sunday, September 27, 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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