On the wonderful three-plus-acres of 88 Cottage Street, Brookline , a brook runs through to a natural pond, recently restored and featured in Design New Englands March/April 2014 edition.

The article, titled Back to Nature, by Bruce Irving, explores how the owner, a talented landscape team, and the Brookline Conservation Commission brought [...]

11 Wood Street, Concord MA

$1,595,000

93 Monument Street, Concord MA

$1,575,000

2014 is off to a great start in luxury real estate as Robb closes the highest sale yet this year in Hamilton at 641 Bay Road for $2,537,500 and 12 Smiths Point the highest waterfront sale on the North Shore at [...]

LandVest is pleased to welcome J. Stanley Edwards to our Boston brokerage team. Here is her first blog:

Why LandVest? Why Now?

My friends whove known me during my 17 years with one of the world's largest technology companies dont ask, they know already. Theyd see me after Id spent a weekend photographing properties for LandVest (which Ive [...]

LandVests MAI (Member of the Appraisal Institute) appraiser, Mike Hart, recently attended the annual Economic and Real Estate Market Outlook, where different industry experts discussed the Boston housing market.

Here are the top five takeaways:

• Projected increases in disposable income supports growth in real estate spending
• Record housing affordability combined with easing credit conditions are boosting housing
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According to the Boston Business Journal, LandVest had three of the Most-Expensive Sales in Eastern Mass. in 2013. LandVest represented either the sellers or the buyers of the 2^nd, 3^rd & 10^th ranked sales. One home was on Cape Cod and two were in the Boston Suburbs. #2. Fairview, 43 Church Street, Falmouth, MA. $11,750,000 - sold  

Top Sale 2013 - $10,000,000 The Cabot Estate, Weston MA Brokers Terrence Maitland and Nicole Monahan

Top Sale 2013 - $11,750,000 Fairview Waterfront Compound, Woods Hole, MA Brokers Stewart Young and Wade Staniar

Top Sale 2013 - $5,320,000 The Neville Leary House, Jamestown, RI Broker Terry Boyle

Top Sale 2013 - $6,800,000 Kennebunkport

We shared a cup of tea recently with Elizabeth Chapin, Managing Director for the New England Region. Betsy is our partner in Christies Boston office. We were talking about the huge sale prices for contemporary art in recent auctions (http://www.christies.com/sales/post-war-and-contemporary-evening-sale-new-york-november-2013/), and the conversation turned to where great buys currently can be [...]

Forbes Magazine names 2014 best cities to invest in Real Estate. Is your city on the list?

Boston is named one of Forbes Magazine's top cities to invest in real estate in 2014.http://www.forbes.com/pictures/emeg45hfmk/15-boston-mass/

Boston's growth forecast, according to the Magazine is 19% in the next three years. To read more about other top cities to invest in housing [...]