As we move into Vermont's midsummer market, residential sales over $1 million increased 19% year-over-year, while total dollar volume rose 23%.

At first glance, the increase in dollar volume might suggest that luxury home prices have risen significantly. However, dollar volume reflects both the number of homes sold and their [...]

Every historic home has a story. Some were shaped by influential families, others welcomed notable guests, and a few have been carefully preserved using the same techniques that built them centuries ago.

Each year, LandVest processes enough paper trip tickets generated through timber harvesting and log transportation activities that, if laid end to end, they would stretch roughly 13 miles. That volume of paperwork has long been a necessary part of moving wood from the forest to the mill, but it also reflects a workflow that has remained [...]

LandVest is pleased to welcome Joshua McDorman as Project Manager, Mitigation Banking & Environmental Crediting, further expanding the firm’s expertise in natural capital, conservation, and environmental markets. Josh joins the [...]

For over 25 years, I have analyzed housing and macroeconomic trends and how they shape real estate markets across New England. Following its peak in the fourth quarter of 2022, I expected the housing market to follow a more familiar correction pattern. As affordability spiked, prices would fall sharply, inventory would rise, and a [...]

Some properties are purchased for a moment in time. Others are held for generations. 

Across New England and the Adirondacks, family compounds have long represented a distinct kind of ownership — properties designed not simply as homes, but as places to return to year after year.

LandVest is helping shape a growing market at the intersection of investment performance and environmental stewardship with the recent sale of a large-scale mitigation bank portfolio—an asset class gaining traction among institutional and private investors alike.

The Appalachia Mitigation Bank Portfolio, brokered on behalf of Ecosystem [...]

The New England Luxury Real Estate Report is an annual review of select high-end markets in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the Adirondacks. Commentary and insights are provided by Luxury Real Estate Advisor [...]

The economy feels unsettled. Unemployment is negatively impacting white collar jobs. Consumer sentiment is down. The Federal Reserve is holding rates flat, with no clear timeline for cuts. Costs remain high, and uncertainty is a constant in conversation.