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 [...]
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 [...]
Stewart Young, LandVest's Regional Director on Cape Cod and in Boston's western suburbs, compiles the LandVest Index which tracks sales of high-end properties across New England and the Adirondacks.
Stewart Young, LandVests Regional Director on Cape Cod and in Bostons western suburbs, compiles the LandVest Index. According to Young: In 2021, the COVID-driven desire for refuge and a work-at-home lifestyle, strong financial markets, wealthy millennials, and improving rural internet continued to drive the market
Our 2020 LandVest Index reported an unprecedented explosion in sales of luxury properties across New England and the Adirondacks. The imperatives for refuge and a new sense of life and work balance continue to drive the market into the second quarter of 2021. With low inventory and high demand, buyers need brokers who have their fingers on [...]
Sales volumes increased by 4% compared to 2018 (1,679 vs 1,611 sales). Compared to 2006 (861 sales), our baseline year, sales are up 95%, and have recovered substantially from a bottom of 534 sales in 2009. High-end markets continue their strong recovery, but buyers are [...]
Selcombe is a hill farm in Brookline, Vermont that has been loved and cared for by the same family for five generations. The owners reflect on the joy and the benefits of a large land [...]
One of the things I really love about the house is that it is not fabulous, fancy or precious. It has the simple, honest, straightforward beauty of the vernacular local materials, assembled to meet the needs of a small Vermont hill farm, but designed and built by a skilled builder with a keen instinct for and understanding of proportion, [...]
Sales volumes increased by 7% compared to 2016 (1,472 vs 1,376 sales). Compared to 2006 (861 sales), our baseline year, sales are up 71%, and have r ecovered substantially from a bottom of 534 sales in 2009. High-end markets continue their strong recovery across the [...]
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