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Built for Generations: Family Compounds Across New England & The Adirondacks05.12.2026

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Some properties are purchased for a moment in time. Others are held for generations.  Across New England and the Adirondacks, family compounds have long represented a distinct kind of ownership — properties designed not simply as homes, but as places to return to year after year. With [...]

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Cape Cod | Massachusetts High-End Market Watch, Year End 2020

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Market Highlights

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

  • Inventory down 16% (162 vs 193 last year).
  • Sales volume up 93% (Record 226 vs record 117 last year).
  • Top Sale: $20,000,000, 187 Penzance Road, Woods Hole.
  • Cape Cods high-end market lagged thru the Q2 and exploded in the second half.
  • COVID-19 increased demand for special "refuge" properties, but buyers struggled with reduced inventory and premium
  • [...]

Middlesex County | Massachusetts
High-End Market Watch, Year End 2020

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Market Highlights

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

  • Inventory up 13% (163 vs 144 last year).
  • Sales up 17% (Record 377 vs record 322 last year).
  • Top Sale: $16,000,000, 46 Fayerweather Street, Cambridge.
  • Middlesex Countys high-end market continues to perform strongly.
  • COVID-19 crimped listings and sales in the first half, but the year ended with record
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Strength in the Boston Market

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Even during dark times, theres a light at the end of the tunnel. In the case of the Boston real estate market, the strong fundamentals are that light. In fact, Boston was named the most resilient US City by Unison, as reported by Housing Wire. A city's resiliency correlates to how its housing market has fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]

Middlesex County | Massachusetts High-End Market Watch, First Half 2020

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Market Highlights

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

  • Inventory down 12% (296 vs 334 last year).
  • Sales down 23% (Record 119 vs record 146 last year).
  • Top Sale: $16,000,000, 46 Fayerweather Street, Cambridge.
  • Middlesex County's high-end market continues to perform strongly.
  • COVID-19 is increasing demand and pricing premiums for special
  • [...]

LandVest New England & Adirondack Real Estate Mid-Year Review 2020

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Market commentaries usually feature well-worn tropes often describing the same circumstances: these are unprecedented times, we are seeing the continuation of a trend in place, and its different this time, and will have lasting [...]

The Covid Diaspora

Covid Diaspora - Birch Tree Farm

When the phone rang in early March, a family from New York with two young kids was looking for an immediate rental in Vermont where they could find what was desperately lacking in the locked-down city: landscape-scale social distance. The family isn't going back. They're now looking to buy something permanent in the corner of Vermont where [...]

LandVest Real Estate Index 2019

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Market Trends

 

High-End Sales Volume % Change, Year-to-Year

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 [...]

Urban/Rural: From COVID-19 to What's Next

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We have been assessing the strong urban real estate recovery post-2008 at the expense of the suburbs and countryside, followed by a shift toward the suburbs and country retreats as the recovery matured.

What are we seeing in market activity in the COVID-19 context?

A clear preference for rural, exurban, and suburban properties with space and [...]

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