Six homes changed hands in Forestville between August 10 and August 23, and the price spread tells two very different stories about the small Sonoma County town: one buyer closed on a two-bedroom cottage for $549,687, while another paid $2.5 million for a four-bedroom estate on Templeman Road. Together, the six sales averaged $1.27 million, a figure that sits well above what most Forestville homeowners would recognize as typical.
The sales data, compiled from public records digitized by local county offices, was reported by The Press Democrat. That average masks a stark divide: Forestville’s median home sale price has actually been running between $631,000 and $655,000 in recent months, a decline of 3.2% to 12.3% year-over-year, according to Redfin. In other words, the recent average was skewed hard by a handful of high-end transactions rather than reflecting what a typical Forestville buyer is paying.
The Priciest Deal: A 1993 Estate on Templeman Road
The top sale of the period was 8550 Templeman Road, a four-bedroom, six-bathroom home built in 1993 that closed for $2.5 million on August 7. With 3,000 square feet of living space, the property sold for $832 per square foot, the highest price-per-square-foot figure among the six transactions per the same report.
Not far behind was 5971 Green Lane, a four-bedroom, three-bathroom house built in 1965 that finalized on July 31 for $1.74 million. At 2,242 square feet, that sale worked out to $774 per square foot. A two-bedroom, two-bathroom home at 7480 Poplar Drive, also built in 1965, sold August 5 for $1.6 million despite measuring just 1,641 square feet, translating to $975 per square foot, the steepest per-square-foot price of the bunch.
The Lower End: Century-Old Homes and a Riverside Cottage
On the more modest side, 11165 Hwy 116, a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house built in 1926, sold for $549,687 on August 3, with 1,444 square feet working out to $381 per square foot. A three-bedroom, one-bathroom home at 8170 Park Avenue, built in 1962, closed August 13 for $564,000, or $527 per square foot across its 1,070 square feet…