Market Insights

The Woodstock area is perhaps the most valuable second home market in New England not on the water or slopeside. Beautiful farms, quiet gravel roads, and rolling countryside have been the perfect antidote to hectic urban life since the Rockefellers started buying up and preserving land in Woodstock in the 19th [...]

Helping Clients from "What They Think They Have to Do" to "What They Really Want"

Ofen the assignment a client asks us to do isnt really what they want. Our job is to listen and figure that out. Here is one such story.

When Jocelyn Van Bokkelen called to say that she wanted to sell her house, I was surprised. I knew she had just built a [...]

Millennials moving to the burbs and inflection points for the markets

The buzz of the post-Great Recession cycle has been all about hot urban markets at the expense of the suburbs. Heres our take on the impact of how demographics, structural change, and cyclical factors have driven the urban markets vs. the suburbs and countryside.

Weve been [...]

The New York Times carried an article recently that began by sounding the death knell for anything old the usual brown furniture doesnt sell." Beneath the headlines were some emerging themes pointing to a new assessment of antique material that we are seeing in both purchasers of real estate and from [...]

Three key steps to prepare a property for sale before going on the market

I just got back from the Inman Luxury conference in Beverly Hills, a meeting of the top brokers from around the country. One topic that kept coming up was the HGTV effect.

The expectation of the consumer is that they can easily see what the house could be was a pithy [...]

At LandVest, we love asking our sellers about their origin stories with their properties. It isnt often that we have a chance to tell the story from the beginning. With the Lawrence Homestead , we are fortunate to have the chance to sit down with Lisa Hicks who, with her husband, children and dogs, are all in on a complete renovation of this spectacular grand [...]

The dominant topic in real estate in this cycle is the vast out-performanceof urban versus rural areas in this recovery. The graphic below shows the rapid pace of land price appreciation (shown in blue) in urban areas compared to the decline (in red) in rural and exurban areas. Lets take a deeper look at what is going on.

Demographics are driving this [...]

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LandVests Director of Residential Brokerage, Ruth Kennedy Sudduth was recently asked to facilitate a discussion on emotional assets, sponsored by Fidelity Family Office Services at Nixon Peabody in Boston. The topic centered on assets where the value cant just be defined in financial terms.

With real estate, like art, or jewelry, or [...]