BARTLETT — Mount Washington Valley custom home builder Harold “Doc” Gilmore and wife, Cindy, sold their Pear Forest estate this week for $2 million to a couple from Washington state.
Randy Hilman, associate luxury broker of Randy Hilman Homes at Keller Williams Lakes & Mountains Realty, brokered the benchmark transaction in behalf of the Gilmores.
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