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DeRentis of RPL brokers $1.4 million sale in Providence

Providence, RI Residential Properties Ltd. (RPL) sold the Forrest Greene House, a brick late Victorian with a carriage house on the city’s historic East Side for $1.4 million. Sales associate Jim DeRentis of RPL’s city office was the listing agent in this transaction.

According to MLS data, this marks the 26th single family sale of over $1 million this year. RPL has listed 18 of the 26 East Side single family sales of over $1 million this year (including the top two highest sales of the year), while also representing 39 of the 52 transaction sides.

Built in 1896, the Forrest Green House includes oak hardwood floors, and leaded glass windows. There is ample living space inside including six bedrooms, six and a half baths, and a wide family room which offers multiple stone and brick fireplaces. A chef’s kitchen includes a casual dining area, stainless steel appliances, stone countertops and center island with breakfast bar. 

Residential Properties Ltd. is the largest privately held real estate company in Rhode Island and has been serving sellers and buyers of distinctive properties since 1981 through service, innovation and sheer hard work.  The Company, with five offices located in Barrington, Cumberland, East Greenwich, Narragansett and Providence, services all of Rhode Island, the Connecticut shoreline and southeastern and central Massachusetts.  In addition, the relocation department assists buyers and sellers on transactions throughout the country.

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