A waterfront colonial on Poppasquash Point in Bristol has sold for almost $5.3 million, making it the town's highest recorded home sale of 2026. The 4,568-square-foot property at 466 Poppasquash Road was built in 1989 and includes 10 rooms and five bedrooms.
The sale price and property details come from Providence Business News, which credited Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty with the figures. Before the deal closed, the home had been listed for $4,999,999 by agent Cheryl Andreozzi of Mott & Chace Sotheby's International Realty, according to Newport Buzz, which described the listing as a 4,568-square-foot waterfront estate with four bedrooms, two full bathrooms and two partial bathrooms — a slightly different room count than the one reported by Providence Business News.
That same listing touted private beach access, a mooring, and direct Narragansett Bay frontage, per the outlet's report. A separate account from GoLocalProv described the home as featuring a kitchen designed by Clive Christian and a first-level primary suite with a study and access to the porch, and noted that Residential Properties sales associate Kerri Payne represented the buyer in the transaction.
A Disputed Claim to the Title
Providence Business News framed the Poppasquash sale as the highest property sale in Bristol since March 2025. But that claim runs into conflicting record-keeping: a separate report from Newport Rhode Island Real Estate describes a $6.75 million sale of the Wind Hill estate on Bristol Harbor, a figure that would exceed the newly reported Poppasquash deal.
Bristol's waterfront market has seen other big-ticket deals compete for the title of top sale in recent memory. GoLocalProv reported that Residential Properties Ltd. sold 33 Courageous Circle in Bristol for $4.3 million, with State-Wide MLS data identifying that sale as the town's highest since March 2025 — the same comparison point later invoked for the Poppasquash property. RINewsToday also reported that Lila Delman Compass sold 9 Hope Street in Bristol for $3,350,000, which Rhode Island Statewide MLS described as the second-highest sale in town for that year.
Bristol's Broader Market Swings
Beyond single blockbuster sales, Bristol's overall housing figures have moved unevenly through 2026. In August, the town's median single-family home sale price reached $670,000, up 9.8% from a year earlier, with 25 homes closing and an average of 36 days on the market, according to data from premrg.com. Just two months earlier, in June, the median had told a different story: 31 single-family sales closed at a median of $635,000, down 11.8% from $720,000 the year before, the same source reported.
Other notable Bristol transactions this year round out the picture of a market with pockets of high-dollar activity. A commercial property on Minturn Farm Road sold for $5.5 million in late May, as reported by the Providence Journal. And a Bristol waterfront home on 3.2 acres previously sold for $5.3 million in a deal that Providence Business News, in a separate report, also described as the town's highest sale of that particular year — underscoring how often the record changes hands along the waterfront.
Scarcity Driving Prices Across the Bay
The pattern isn't unique to Bristol. In nearby Jamestown, a waterfront home at 10 Coulter St. sold for $6.5 million, marking that town's highest sale of 2026 to date, according to What's Up Newp. That 6,000-square-foot shingle-style residence was built in 2020 on 0.66 waterfront acres. The same outlet noted that demand for turnkey waterfront properties on Conanicut Island remains strong because coastal inventory is exceptionally scarce — a dynamic that mirrors what's playing out along Bristol's own shoreline.
Statewide, brokerage competition for these high-value listings has intensified. Compass ranked as Rhode Island's number-one brokerage by total sales volume in 2025, closing more than $1.26 billion in sales, per RINewsToday. With waterfront inventory tight across Narragansett Bay communities, properties like the Poppasquash Point colonial are likely to keep drawing attention — and debate over exactly where they rank — as 2026 draws to a close.
