Jepson Island, One Of The Thimbles, Sold For $715,000

BRANFORD, CT —One of the Thimble Islands, Jepson island, has just sold for $715,000.

The island includes a furnished two-bedroom contemporary home with natural materials and walls of glass, on .28 acre with stone steps to the beach, dock and mooring.

Here's the full listing.

The island is one of three we launched to the market in April. These were last on the market in 2016 with eight islands offered at $78 million. Two of them sold at that time: the largest, Rogers Island, and Cut-In-Two, and the sellers decided to keep some of the others.

The other two still for sale include:

-Wheelers Island, offered at $3 million, which the agent calls a “choice island.” It has a turnkey circa 2001 eight-bedroom home, sold furnished, on .77 manicured acre with a sandy beach. Link to listing: https://www.williampitt.com/search/real-estate-sales/wheelers-island-branford-ct-06405-170247557-3006103/

-Belden Island, offered at $1.5 million, with a furnished four-bedroom cottage overlooking a rolling lawn, sandy beach and private dock, on 1 acre with 2 acres of deeded adjacent shellfish beds. Link to listing: https://www.williampitt.com/search/real-estate-sales/belden-island-branford-ct-06405-170247161-3005943/

Each island has its own beach, gardens, solar power, generators and city water. The islands provide a sense of escape in these uncertain times, as well as control, as they are totally exclusive to whoever owns them, and to a great extent self-sustaining.

The sellers are Christine and Edmund Stoecklein. She is the widow of John Svenningsen, founder of Amscan Holdings, Inc. They initially came to the Thimbles in the 1970s; she purchased many of the islands in the late 90s and early 2000s after his death.

The agent is Margaret Muir, with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty.