There are many changes we look forward to as summer turns to fall; farmers markets, fall foliage, and pumpkin flavored everything! We also love seeing changes at LandVest listing, [...]

Have you ever fallen in love with a house, and for years, dreamed of making it your own? The Wall Street Journal recently featured stories of buyers who waited sometimes for decades for the place to become available.

One such happy ending was for LandVest Chairman, Bob Bordens Paynter Farm, which was recently purchased by the (now adult) kid who used to mow his lawn. LandVests [...]

LandVest is the leading luxury equestrian brokerage firm in New England and has long been connected to the equestrian community. Our equestrian team of brokers combined with LandVests equestrian marketing program has resulted in record sales throughout New England. Here is a sampling of our great equestrian [...]

1. The perfect Village setting: a milldam, a bandstand in the middle of the Town Green, green hills and shady trees
2. Culture: the Weston Playhouse
3. Quiet: hike, ski, ride, play, the Green Mountains and the quiet country roads are a perfect antidote to 21st century mayhem
4. Idiosyncratic shopping: The Vermont Country Stores got the creaky wood floors and really weird inventory along with the classic penny candy and oilcloth

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Vermont properties are trading at prices near those of a decade ago while timber value is on its way up. Combine great deals on land with a timber kicker, all wrapped up in beautiful places to be enjoyed with friends and family, the case is [...]

Harvard, Massachusetts, is a beautiful town year round, but summers in Harvard are especially great. Here are five things we love about living in Harvard:

LandVests Stanley Edwards calls Harvard "home". Visit her favorite listing, the Ark, as well as her other area listings in nearby Concord.

LandVest has long admired Tom Peters and his In Search of Excellence. We are delighted to be marketing the 1278 acre Vermont farm he and his wife, artist and author Susan Sargent, have renovated, expanded and conserved over the last 20 years. As their work now takes them further afield, Tom reflects on the story of their purchase of the farm [...]

Do you love New England's open countryside and beautiful trails? Here are some farms, country reteats and great deals:

Swimming ponds in the Green Mountains

Great places to ride at great values

Trying to please a horse person and a fisherman?

Or a horse person and a golf/ tennis player?

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Built by shipwrights in 1834 for whaling merchant William Rotch Jr., the Rotch-Jones-Duff (RJD) House and Garden Museum epitomizes the brave houses and flowery gardens described by Herman Melville in Moby-Dick. Greek Revival in style, it was designed by architect Richard Upjohn, a founder and first president of the American Institute or [...]