New construction
$415,000
Unit 4B, The Foundry Lofts, 77 Spark Street, Kingston
2 bd · 2 ba · 1,180 sq ft · 2023 · HOA $412/mo
Licensed Real Estate Salesperson · Kingston office
June Takeda-Ross
"There are no dumb questions about your first house. There are only expensive ones you didn't ask."
About June
June Takeda-Ross taught seventh- and eighth-grade math for eleven years in a district just south of Kingston, and she will tell you that buying a first house is mostly a word problem. You have a down payment, a monthly budget, an interest rate that keeps changing, a tax bill, an insurance premium and a list of things you want. Solve for the house. Her clients get a one-page worksheet at their first meeting that lays every number side by side, and many of them keep it on the fridge until closing.
June grew up in Saugerties, the daughter of a woodworker and a nurse, and moved back to the valley after college. In 2017 she and her partner went looking for their first house and found the process baffling: an accepted offer that wasn't really accepted, a contract that came from an attorney neither of them had met, a closing-cost estimate that was off by four thousand dollars. "I kept thinking somebody should explain this properly," she says. The next summer she got her license, and she joined Fieldstone & Finch's Kingston office in 2018, working weekends at first and then full-time once she left teaching in 2019.
Most of June's buyers are buying for the first time, and many of them are locals: people who grew up here, work at the hospital or the county or a school, and are trying to buy in a town that got much more expensive while they weren't looking. She knows the general shape of the first-time buyer programs that exist in New York, the low-down-payment loan types, and the questions to ask a lender about them, and she's patient about the paperwork. She'll also tell you, kindly, when a house is a stretch.
June has become the brokerage's specialist in Kingston's new-construction condos, including the Foundry Lofts on Spark Street, where she has now sold four units. Condos come with their own reading list (the offering plan, the HOA budget, the reserve study, the rules about rentals and pets) and June reads all of it so she can tell you what's in it in plain English. She also loves the small, slightly rough houses: the 1940s cottage with a wood stove, the 1958 ranch with the big yard and the original pink bathroom. Her listing descriptions are honest to a fault, and buyers trust them.
In her free time June plays shakuhachi (badly, she says), gardens a community plot in Midtown, and still tutors a few students in algebra. She speaks conversational Japanese, mostly learned from her grandmother, and is happy to work with clients in it.
- Title
- Licensed Real Estate Salesperson (New York)
- Office
- Kingston · 48 Stockade Row
- Direct
- 845-555-0142
- june@fieldstonefinch.example
- Licensed since
- 2018
- Specialties
- First-time buyers, condos and new construction, starter houses, sellers downsizing
- Towns
- Kingston, Saugerties, Hurley, Ulster, Port Ewen, Rosendale
- Languages
- English, Japanese (conversational)
Recent sales
| Address | Sale price | Represented | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Hearthstone Lane, Kingston | $488,000 (listed $475,000) | Seller | August 2025 |
| 70 Pine Bark Street, Kingston | $352,000 | Buyer | June 2025 |
| Unit 2A, The Foundry Lofts, Kingston | $398,000 | Seller | March 2025 |
| 5 Halfmoon Court, Saugerties | $339,000 | Buyer | January 2025 |
| Unit 3C, The Foundry Lofts, Kingston | $405,000 | Seller | October 2024 |
Reviews
First house, first everything. June made a one-page list of every cost from the inspection to the title insurance before we even looked at anything. There were no surprises at closing.
— Sam T., bought a condo in Kingston, 2025
We had four offers on Hearthstone Lane after the first weekend. June laid them out in a table, explained the difference between the highest price and the strongest offer, and let us choose. We closed in August.
— Beth and Carl N., sold in Kingston, 2025
She talked me out of a house I loved because the roof and the oil tank would have eaten my savings. Three weeks later she found me one I loved more.
— Alicia F., bought in Saugerties, 2025