As if in slumber, Stonecrop Ledge has stood, timeless, at the edge of the village of Middlebury. Its windows, long shuttered, clapboards in much need of paint and its crumbling stone walls, might suggest a story ended. But for Randall and Kathleen Brisson, and indeed for the house itself, this is a tale not finished but merely paused. 

The age-old dilemma: Should you buy, or should you hold off? Should you sell, or should you wait?

Vermont's real estate market is changing. Sales of homes over $1 million decreased in 2023 by 6.5% compared to the peak the year before. Buyers placed a bigger discount on homes that needed work due to high building costs and a shortage of [...]

High-End $2,000,000+ Market Highlights

• Inventory up 11% (record 322 vs record 291 last year).
• Sales down 14% (467 vs record 544 last year).
• Top Sale: $11,800,000. 15 Dogwood Rd, Weston.
• Strong inventories and buyer demand continue to propel the market despite economic and political concerns.
• As usual, special properties expertly presented, reaching out to a broad market with a strong value proposition, will have a competitive
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Last quarter we addressed the crosscurrents in the real estate market: tight inventory, sellers frozen in place by their existing low mortgages, buyers still searching for the life they want, millennials continuing to come into the market.

Now the tide is turning:  The high water of the COVID-era seller's market is retreating.  The ebb tide is leaving fewer buyers in the waters and sellers more exposed to navigational [...]

High-End $2,000,000+ Market Highlights

• Inventory up 13% (197 vs record low 174 last year).
• Sales volume down 16% (143 vs record high 171 last year).
• Top sale: $15,100,000. 959 SeaView Ave, Osterville.
• Cape Cods high-end inventory is imporiving but historically low.
• Multi-year contractor lead times hamper sales of renovations and tear-down
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We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with amazing people committed to special places.  

Jean Abouhamad, of SEA-DAR Construction exemplifies this.

Jean and Charlie Reed own the Ayer Mansion, Louis Comfort Tiffanys only surviving residential interior and exterior design, which they purchased to ensure its ongoing life as a [...]

Since announcing the firms recent expansion into the southern seacoasts of Maine and New Hampshire, we have established two new offices in York Harbor, ME and Portsmouth, NH. These seacoast locations are popular vacation and year-round destinations for visitors up and down the East Coast, including New York and Boston, making the move a [...]

Market Highlights

High-End $2,000,000+ Market Highlights

• Inventory down 5% (328 vs 345 last year).
• Sales down 10% (298 vs record 330 last year).
• Top Sale: $11,800,000, 15 Dogwood Rd, Weston.
• Strong inventories and buyer demand continue to propel the market despite economic and political concerns.
• As usual special properties, expertly presented, reaching out to a broad market with a strong value proposition, will have a competitive
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Market Highlights

HIGH-END $2,000,000+ MARKETS HIGHLIGHTS

• Inventory up 26% (203 vs 161 last year).
• Sales volume down 30% (78 vs 112 last year).
• Top sale: $12,200,000, 209 Bay St, Osterville.
• Cape Cods high-end market inventory continues to improve.
• COVID-driven demand is slacking while rising inflation, interest rates, and global uncertainty remain
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