Sold!

It appears Atlantique, the former Astor family oceanfront retreat in Bar Harbor that has been on the market for the past several years, may have finally sold.
According to the Town of Bar Harbor's tax assessor's database, the new owner is Laurie A. West of Orlando, Fla. The former owner, Catherine Barrett, appears to have gotten her latest asking price of $3.9 million for the 9,700-square foot mansion that overlooks the Shore Path and Frenchman Bay.
The sale occurred last June, according to the official assessor's database.
It had been on the market since at least 2006, when the asking price was $7.5 million and the real estate market was, well, a lot different than it is now. One of the mansion's real estate listings from early 2009 can still be found online at ExoticExcess.com. For tax purposes, the town has estimated the mansion and surrounding 4-acre property to have a total assessed value of $3.4 million.
Who Laurie A. West is I am not sure, but there is a Scott West in Orlando who is a doctor, according to some Google search results. Scott West's name appears among the information listed under the property's "owner of record" heading in the assessor's database, and both their names appear side by side on donor lists for the Central Florida YMCA and the National Park Foundation. One might assume that they are married, or at least related somehow.
But if you are in the market for some luxury oceanfront residential property in Bar Harbor, there still is some available. Businessman and former state Sen. Tom Sawyer appears yet to be offering his mansion Highland Rose for sale, though his price has come down a bit. The 9,000 square-foot home near the village of Hulls Cove was listed last year for $4.95 million but now is being offered for $4.5 million, according to this online listing. For tax purposes, the town has estimated Sawyer's mansion and the surrounding 3-plus acre property to have an assessed value of $3.2 million, according to the town's official assessor's official database.