The Westfield NJ Top 10: How a Single $5.275 Million Sale Rewrote the Town’s All-Time Price Ceiling

The Westfield Top 10: How a Single $5.275 Million Sale Rewrote the Town's Price Ceiling

On November 6, 2025, Westfield broke its own all-time record. 128 Woodland Avenue — an 8,500-square-foot custom estate with a heated pool, an outdoor kitchen, and a pool house — closed at $5,275,000. That number is not a typo and it is not a rumor. It is a deed-recorded sale, brokered by Christie's International Real Estate Group, that surpassed every prior residential transaction in the town's history. The previous high-water marks — $4,280,000 at 8 Kimball Circle in August 2021 and a $4,000,000 off-market trade at 216 Watchung Fork in January 2025 — were both shattered in a single afternoon.

This post ranks the ten highest verified, MLS-confirmed, deed-recorded Westfield home sales of the modern luxury era. Every transaction below is a closed sale — no active listings, no asking prices, no speculation. Just closings, with addresses, dates, prices, and what they tell us about the corridors and house types now defining Union County's most aspirational ZIP code. The conclusion is unambiguous: Westfield has graduated. The town is no longer competing with Summit on a price-per-square-foot basis. It is competing with Short Hills, Millburn, and the inner-ring Bergen County luxury markets — and the Top 10 list proves it.

Pull the recorded transaction history for Westfield and the new hierarchy is unmistakable. The ten highest verified, MLS-confirmed, deed-recorded Westfield closings of the modern luxury era are listed below — every one a completed sale, every one cross-referenced against MLS data, brokerage announcements, and public transfer records.

Note the velocity at the very top: three of the Top 4 sales closed since January 2025, with the all-time record falling in November of that same year. The Westfield ceiling is not drifting — it is leaping in single events. The data lines up with the broader pricing picture documented in Prodigy's 2026 Westfield real estate update, where the median sale price has now crossed $1 million and homes routinely close 6–7% above asking.

Westfield's top sales do not scatter randomly. They cluster — in four named historic and luxury sections of town that have functioned as the price ceiling for two decades. Here is where the recorded ceiling actually lives.

The Indian Forest Section

If Westfield has a single dominant luxury corridor, this is it. The 128 Woodland Avenue all-time record sits squarely inside the Indian Forest section of Westfield, NJ, as does the off-market $4 million close at 216 Watchung Fork. Indian Forest is defined by deep, mature lots, winding streets that defy the township's standard grid, towering oaks and beeches, and the kind of architectural variety — Tudor, French Norman, Colonial Revival, contemporary new-build — that defines genuinely top-tier American suburban neighborhoods. Buyers who pay $4 million-plus in Westfield are almost always buying inside this section. The product is irreplaceable; the lots cannot be subdivided; and the supply is fixed at a few hundred parcels total. The character that makes Indian Forest irreplaceable is also a function of the town's historic preservation framework — the full inventory of which is documented in Prodigy's guide to every Westfield historic district documented in the 2024 Master Plan.

The Kimball Avenue Historic District

Three Top 10 entries originate here, including the prior all-time record at 8 Kimball Circle. The Kimball Avenue Historic District is the Westfield analog to Summit's Wallace Road — a designated historic enclave of grand, early-20th-century estates with deep central-Westfield roots, walking distance to the train station and downtown. The 1925-built 614 Dorian Road close at $1,980,000 in December 2025 fits this district's character profile: large, original-period homes that command a meaningful premium when they trade, particularly when sympathetically updated.

The Wychwood Section

The Wychwood section of Westfield is the southwest-side luxury corridor — quieter, more residential in character, with a tighter cul-de-sac street geometry than Indian Forest. The neighborhood produced one Top 10 entry directly and several near-misses in the $1.3–$1.4 million tier. Recent custom builds have pushed Wychwood sale prices toward the $3 million range, and the section's housing-stock evolution — from mid-century ranches and cape colonials to teardown-and-rebuild luxury new construction — is reshaping what Wychwood can command. Buyers and sellers underwriting a teardown-rebuild play in Wychwood should consult Prodigy's Westfield zoning map guide first — RS-12 and RS-15 lot-size standards govern the entire calculation.

The Plymouth / Scudder Pocket

Plymouth Road and Scudder Road sit in a fourth distinct luxury pocket on the north side, anchored by the Washington Elementary "Blue Ribbon" attendance line and a deep mature-tree canopy. The 35 Plymouth Road close at $2,437,500 in April 2025 is the corridor's flagship sale of the cycle — a six-bedroom, seven-bath custom on roughly a third of an acre. The 36 Scudder Road close at $2,050,000 the same month confirms this is not a one-off comp. The pocket is producing the strongest mid-tier luxury volume in town. The pricing dynamics across these corridors are part of the broader picture covered in Prodigy's county-by-county breakdown of where NYC buyers are moving in New Jersey.

Three house types appear in the Top 10. Each operates on a different economic logic, and each attracts a different buyer profile.

1. Estate-Tier Custom Homes (7,000–9,000+ sq ft)

This is the product type at the absolute top. The 128 Woodland Avenue record at $5.275 million is the prototype — five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, an 8,500-plus-square-foot footprint, a chef's kitchen, a fully finished basement, a heated pool, an outdoor kitchen, a fire pit lounge, and a separate pool house. The 8 Kimball Circle close at $4.28 million in 2021 and the 216 Watchung Fork off-market close at $4 million in 2025 belong to this same archetype. There are very few of these properties in Westfield. When one trades, the comp set is essentially the rest of this list.

2. Custom New-Construction Colonials (5,000–7,000 sq ft)

This is the volume product at the upper-middle of the market. The 35 Plymouth Road close at $2.4 million and the 36 Scudder Road close at $2.05 million both fit the modern Westfield custom-build template: stone-and-clapboard exterior, six-bedroom programs, 5–7 bathrooms, three-car garage, professional-grade kitchens, primary suite with sitting room. The $2.0–$2.5 million band is now the standard new-construction trade range in the town, with the very top tier of new builds approaching the $3 million mark when lot, finish, and section all align.

3. Period-Original Restorations (1920s–1930s)

The third archetype is the carefully restored period home — typically a 1920s or 1930s colonial or Tudor revival in the Kimball Avenue Historic District or central Westfield — preserved to original architectural standards while updated for modern living. The 614 Dorian Road close at $1,980,000 (a 1925-built five-bedroom) fits this profile, as do both Kimball Avenue Historic District entries. Buyers paying $1.6–$2 million for this product are paying for character that simply cannot be built. Sellers considering this type of repositioning should understand the pre-listing landscape covered in Prodigy's guide to what it really costs to sell a home in Westfield, including the Westfield-specific compliance and certificate requirements that affect timeline.

Three structural patterns emerge from the verified data. First, the Top 4 has been completely rewritten in less than a calendar year. The all-time record fell in November 2025. The #3 spot was set by an off-market $4 million trade in January 2025. The #4 spot was set in April 2025. Three of Westfield's four highest sales of all time happened inside a ten-month window.

Second, the spread is widening rather than tightening. The gap between the #1 sale ($5.275M) and the #10 sale ($1.45M) is nearly $3.8 million. That spread is significantly wider than any prior period in the town's recorded history, and it tells a specific story: the very top of the Westfield market is decoupling from the rest of the town's pricing curve. Estate-tier buyers are not negotiating from the same comp set as the upper-middle.

Third, the regional context matters. Short Hills and Millburn medians sit near $3 million. Summit's median is approximately $1.87 million. Scotch Plains' top-tier ceiling sits at $2.29 million, with the full breakdown available in Prodigy's Scotch Plains Top 10 closed-sales report — and notably, Scotch Plains' luxury spine in the Shackamaxon corridor of Scotch Plains shares a buyer profile with Westfield's Indian Forest section, often serving as the value-tier alternative for the same demographic. Westfield's recorded ceiling at $5.275 million now operates in a higher tier than every neighboring town except Short Hills and Millburn. For comparison context against the high end of regional borough markets, see the $8.5M Staten Island luxury benchmark report.

For sellers above $2 million: The 2025–2026 comp set is denser and more favorable than at any point in the town's history. A listing strategy that looks backward at 2022–2023 comps will systematically under-price the property. The relevant comparables are the 2025 closings — and they are dramatically higher.

For buyers in the $2–$5 million range: The product universe is real but extremely tight. There are perhaps a few dozen homes in Westfield at any given moment that can clear $3 million, and most of them are in Indian Forest, Kimball, or Wychwood. Lot, age, school zone, and section matter enormously. A $2.5 million Plymouth Road colonial is not the same asset as a $2.5 million Kimball Historic restoration, and they will not appreciate identically.

For both: Recorded sales data tells one story. Off-market activity, days-on-market patterns, and buyer migration trends tell another. Either side of a $2 million-plus Westfield transaction in 2026 needs both — not a Zillow estimate and a hope.

By Anthony Licciardello, The Prodigy Team

NYS/NJ Licensed Broker

20+ years and 5,000+ closed transactions across New Jersey and Staten Island. Posted May 1, 2026.