The house at 371 Elm Ave in Hershey dates to 1958 and stands on a 0.35-acre corner lot within walking distance of the borough’s downtown shops, schools and recreation center. The sale, recorded September 21, 2026, opened a week in which five reported home sales across the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania metro area totaled $5.27 million.
Filling out the list were a log homestead in Halifax, a creekside house in the Point Ridge Farms community of Camp Hill, a residence on 5.5 wooded acres in Harrisburg and a just-completed home at The Porches Of Allenberry in Boiling Springs. The oldest was finished in 1958, the newest this year.
No. 1 — $1,380,000 · 371 Elm Ave, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Sally Copeland of Coldwell Banker Realty held the listing side of the transaction, which ranked No. 1 in RealtyWire’s Harrisburg Metro Area Top 5 for the week. Staci Albert of Coldwell Banker Realty represented the buyer.
A $1,380,000 transaction on September 21, 2026 put 371 Elm Ave at the top of the Harrisburg metro area’s reported home sales for the week. The 1958 house has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a reported 5,107 square feet. The property previously changed hands for $460,000 in 2014.
An updated kitchen with a center island, upgraded countertops and a tile backsplash opens into the family room. A separate living room draws light from a bay window, and a formal dining room adjoins it. The primary bedroom has an ensuite bath and a walk-in closet, with three more bedrooms and a second full bath alongside. A finished third level can serve as a fifth bedroom or an office, and the lower level holds a recreation room, an exercise room and storage.
The corner lot carries a patio, and a two-car garage serves the house. Hershey Medical Center is about two miles away, with in-town shops and restaurants closer still.
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No. 2 — $1,135,000 · 853 Straws Church Rd, Halifax, Pennsylvania
A log home on a working homestead at 853 Straws Church Rd in Halifax settled at $1,135,000 on September 23, 2026, second among the week’s reported sales. Built in 2000, it has four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a reported 2,340 square feet. It previously changed hands for $725,000 in 2022.
Vaulted ceilings rise over an open living and dining area, and a two-story great room is centered on a woodstove. French doors from the dining room lead onto one of two full-length covered porches, which run along opposite sides of the house. A newly finished daylight lower level adds a private exterior entrance, a mudroom, a utility room and plumbing roughed in for a future full bathroom, and laundry sits on the first floor.
Outbuildings include a two-story, two-car garage, a 40-by-64-foot equipment shed, a 24-by-48-foot livestock barn with electric service and a feed and tack room, a chicken coop, a run-in shed and an outdoor riding arena, plus a garden and an orchard of apple, cherry, peach and pear trees. About 18 tillable acres and roughly 2 acres of fenced pasture make up the farmed ground, with Berry Mountain and Broad Mountain in view. Listing materials note the land is enrolled in Pennsylvania’s Clean and Green program.
Peter Heim of Keller Williams Platinum Realty – Wyomissing carried the listing on the No. 2 sale in RealtyWire’s Harrisburg Metro Area Top 5 for the week. The property went under contract 2 days after the current listing date and closed $35,000 above its final asking price of $1,100,000. Kore Fisher of Fisher Realty represented the buyer.
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No. 3 — $1,125,000 · 6 Creekside Ln, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
6 Creekside Ln closed on September 24, 2026 for $1,125,000, third on the week’s list. The 2021 house sits along the Conodoguinet Creek in the Point Ridge Farms community of Camp Hill, in the Cumberland Valley School District, with four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a reported 4,623 square feet.
Hardwood floors run through the main level, where a great room with a stone-faced fireplace faces the water through wall-to-wall windows. The kitchen has a large island, quartz countertops, two sinks, a six-burner Wolf gas range, a Sub-Zero refrigerator and a walk-in butler’s pantry. The main-level primary suite opens onto a screened porch and includes a walk-in closet with custom built-ins and a bath with marble floors, a soaking tub and a tile shower.
Two bedrooms upstairs share a Jack-and-Jill bath. The walk-out lower level opens onto a patio above the creek and holds an office, another bedroom with a full bath, a second fireplace and built-ins with a sink, drawer refrigerators and an ice maker. A two-tier Trex deck carries outdoor fans and a gas line for grilling, and the two-car garage is deep enough to take three vehicles.
Garrett Rothman of Rsr, Realtors, LLC represented the listing side of the sale, which ranked No. 3 in RealtyWire’s Harrisburg Metro Area Top 5 for the week, and the house went under contract 16 days after the current listing date. Rothman has appeared in the metro’s Top 5 roundup twice before. Melissa Murphy of EXP Realty, LLC represented the buyer.
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No. 4 — $830,100 · 6511 Leo Dr, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Erin Duffy of RE/MAX 1st Advantage held the listing on the No. 4 transaction in RealtyWire’s Harrisburg Metro Area Top 5 for the week. The house went under contract 11 days after the current listing date and closed $150 above its final asking price of $829,950. Bill Bering of Bering Real Estate Co. represented the buyer.
At the end of a tree-lined drive with a circular approach, the house at 6511 Leo Dr in Harrisburg occupies 5.5 private, wooded acres. Records date the closing to September 23, 2026, at $830,100. It previously changed hands for $245,000 in 2015.
Built in 1996 and carrying a reported 6,150 square feet across three levels, the residence has five bedrooms and four bathrooms behind brick and cedar siding under a new roof. A stained-glass front door opens to a two-story foyer with a curved staircase. The kitchen centers on a waterfall-edge natural stone island with seating for six, a pot-filler faucet, a farmhouse sink and double wall ovens, beside a window-wrapped breakfast room and a two-sided stacked-stone fireplace shared with the great room.
The primary suite adds a sitting room with its own fireplace, a walk-in closet with custom built-ins, access to a private composite deck and a bath with dual floating vanities, a tile walk-in shower and a soaking tub beneath a wall of windows. Upstairs bedrooms have vaulted ceilings and arched windows, a Jack-and-Jill bath and a laundry room. The walkout basement is finished with a recreation room and wet bar, a home gym, another bedroom and a full bath. Two geothermal systems handle heating and cooling, according to the listing, and the grounds carry a composite deck, a covered patio, a fire pit and a three-car garage.
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No. 5 — $799,990 · 141 Davy Pass, Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania
A newly built house at 141 Davy Pass sold for $799,990 on September 25, 2026, the fifth-highest reported home sale in the Harrisburg metro area for the week. Completed in 2026, it stands in The Porches Of Allenberry in Boiling Springs. The three-bedroom house has three bathrooms and a reported 2,521 square feet.
It closed at its full asking price, and the transaction ranked No. 5 in RealtyWire’s Harrisburg Metro Area Top 5 for the week, with Autumn Casey of New Home Star Pennsylvania LLC on the listing side.
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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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