Lexington's Priciest June Sale Was Also Its Hardest-Won: 46 Asbury Street, Four Price Cuts, Nine Months

At $2,658,150, 46 Asbury Street is the single most expensive home in Lexington's recent closed-sale dataset — above the next sale, 18 Hill Street, by nearly half a million dollars. By the leaderboard, it is the trophy of the month. But scratch the headline and the picture inverts: this was also the slowest, most-discounted high-end sale in town. A brand-new, never-lived-in Contemporary Colonial in the desirable Hastings School neighborhood, built in 2025 on a 0.48-acre lot abutting conservation land, it should have been the easiest luxury sale in Lexington. Instead it spent the better part of a year chasing the market downhill. The contrast — first on price, last on speed — is the entire story.

Here is the sequence, straight from the MLS price history. The home was listed on September 18, 2025 at $2,975,000 ($595/sqft). On February 4, 2026 it was cut to $2,878,000. On March 12, cut again to $2,799,000. On April 8, a third cut to $2,710,000. It went contingent in May at that price, pending in June, and finally closed on June 11, 2026 at $2,658,150 — roughly 1.9% below even the reduced ask. Add it up and the seller trimmed $265,000 off the list price across four cuts before a buyer ever signed, then conceded another $51,850 at the table. The final number sits $316,850 — about 10.7% — below where the listing started nine months earlier. That is not a distressed sale; it is a methodical, market-driven re-rating of an aspirational opening number.

Pull this property up and Zillow shows 13 days on Zillow. The town's own quick-look feed logged it at 5. Both are technically true and both are deeply misleading — they reflect the most recent listing event, not the marketing reality. The MLS price history is unambiguous: this home was continuously for sale, with four price reductions, from September 18, 2025 to its June 11, 2026 close. That is roughly 266 days. Whenever you see a low days-on-market figure attached to a property that also carries multiple price cuts, treat the DOM number as marketing, not data. The price ladder is the honest clock.

At $531 per square foot, 46 Asbury Street did not just sell below its own ask — it sold for the lowest price per square foot of any large home in Lexington this June. The next sale down, 18 Hill Street, fetched $597/sqft. Smaller homes did far better per foot: 14 Normandy Road traded at $742, and a modest 1,629-sqft house at 20 York Street hit $829 per square foot. That inversion is the tell. Buyers will stretch on price-per-foot for scarce, well-located, right-sized homes — but they discount big new square footage, because square footage is exactly the thing a builder can reproduce. When you are selling 5,004 brand-new feet, you are selling the most commoditized thing in the market, and the per-foot price reflects it.

Line them up and Lexington's June market reads as a healthy, demand-led town with one asterisk at the top. The mid-market — the $1.15M to $1.69M band where most of the action sat — moved fast, often in a single day on the latest listing cycle, at $600 to $830 per square foot. Demand for the right house at the right size is plainly intense. 46 Asbury Street sits outside that pattern not because Lexington is weak, but because it represents a different, thinner segment: nearly $3 million of new construction, where the buyer pool narrows sharply and the seller has to meet it on price rather than wait for it to chase.

This was a genuinely premium product, not a compromise. 46 Asbury Street is a 2025-built Contemporary Colonial with five bedrooms and five baths across 5,004 square feet, set on a private side street abutting conservation land in the Hastings School neighborhood. The chef's kitchen runs Fisher & Paykel appliances and quartzite counters around an oversized island; there is a first-floor office/bedroom with full bath, a main suite with a private balcony and spa bath, and a finished lower level with a game room, wet bar, and exercise area. It was listed by Judy Moore of Barrett Sotheby's International Realty and sold within $1,550 of its Zestimate — meaning the automated model and the market agreed almost to the dollar on where this home belonged. The seller's original $2,975,000 ask was simply about $317,000 ahead of that consensus, and it took nine months to close the gap.

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