Our friends at CFAR, the respected advisory firm to companies, families, and organizations, recently examined the parallel challenges of closely held companies and family compounds.

Caleb White of CFAR noted that a tiny fraction estimated at 13% of family businesses make it to the third generation. A similarly small fraction of [...]

The current frenzy of estate planning to address potential tax changes and the intense real estate markets are creating a wall of work for a shrinking group of skilled practitioners. The Appraisal Institute (AI) estimates that the number of appraisal...

When Saturday Night Live riffs on homes in Vermont, you know things are hot.

(They are absolutely right that Boomers own a large share of Vermont vacation homes, and are, on margin, sellers. Whats new is that Gen X and Millennials are buying.)

The aggregate numbers are impressive enough, but its the difference in tone that is [...]

Just got off the phone with the owners of Taylor Farm in Peacham, Vermont, who have been happily there for the full pandemic, joined with family and friends over the course of the last year. Here are some highlights:

So, what was your experience being on the farm over the last year?

Weve lived here for years, but this was our first [...]

The Tale of Two Markets after the Great Recession, when the entire story was about urban millennials and downsizing boomers fighting over concierge apartments, totally reversed with [...]

LandVest loves local

The team at LandVest has long admired Mad River Distillers award-winning liquors: whiskey, maple rum and Malvados, distilled from fair trade products in the Green Mountains in Waitsfield, Vermont.

When Mad River stepped in to help in the time of COVID, making their own distilled hand sanitizer, we were all in.

We are thrilled to partner to provide hand sanitizer to keep clients, customers, and brokers safe as we explore great places across New England and the [...]

We have been assessing the strong urban real estate recovery post-2008 at the expense of the suburbs and countryside, followed by a shift toward the suburbs and country retreats as the recovery matured.

What are we seeing in market activity in the COVID-19 context?

A clear preference for rural, exurban, and suburban properties with space and [...]

Inman published a profile of LandVests Ruth Kennedy Sudduth earlier this week, and already it seems like a charming throwback to a time before the world changed. The article is behind a paywall, so we have republished an abridged version here. Many thanks to our friends at Inman, the real estate industry [...]