In mid-May, a Sotheby's International Realty-listed house at 295 Woodbine Rd. in North Stamford sold for $990,000, amid a broader pickup of activity in the Fairfield County residential real estate market. Photo: Contributed Photo Stamford was one of five markets in southwestern Connecticut to register a 20 percent or better increase in home sales in the first half of the year, according to William Pitt -Julia B. Fee 's Sotheby's International Realty.