Updated March 22, 2020

To Our Valued Clients,

As we settle into the next phase of this odyssey, we want to provide some perspectives and assurances as proven advisors in the face of uncertainty. Our highest priority right now is the health and safety of our brokers, employees, and clients. As your trusted advisors for more than 50 years, we [...]

Market Insights

The Woodstock area is perhaps the most valuable second home market in New England not on the water or slopeside. Beautiful farms, quiet gravel roads, and rolling countryside have been the perfect antidote to hectic urban life since the Rockefellers started buying up and preserving land in Woodstock in the 19th [...]

Market Highlights

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

• Inventory up 3% (193 vs 187 last year).
• Sales volume up 5% (record 117 vs record 111 last year).
• Top sale: Crockers Path, East Dennis, $19,250,000. LandVest Record Sale
• LandVests markets continue to perform strongly with significant record sales.
• In 2019, strong inventory and demand
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Market Highlights

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

• Inventory up 9% (252 vs 231 last year).
• Sales volume up 7% (record 89 vs record 83 last year).
• Top sale: Crockers Path, East Dennis, $11,000,000. LandVest Record Sale.
• LandVests markets continue to perform strongly with significant record sales.
• For the first three quarters of 2019,
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Millennials moving to the burbs and inflection points for the markets

The buzz of the post-Great Recession cycle has been all about hot urban markets at the expense of the suburbs. Heres our take on the impact of how demographics, structural change, and cyclical factors have driven the urban markets vs. the suburbs and countryside.

Weve been [...]

Market Highlights

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

• Inventory up 11% (record 266 vs 240 last year).
• Sales up 14% (250 vs record 219 last year).
• Top sale: $8,750,000 - 18 Skating Pond Road, Weston, new construction, 12,000 sq ft Colonial on 3 acres.
• LandVests markets continue to perform strongly with significant record sales.
• For the
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Market Highlights

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

• Inventory up 18% (Record 334 vs record 284 last year).
• Sales up 8% (Record 146 vs record 135 last year).
• Top Sale: $7,200,000, 5 Fayerweather Street near Brattle, Cambridge, 1894 Victorian with 5 bedrooms on a quarter-acre lot.
• LandVests markets continue to perform strongly with significant record
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Market Highlights

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

• Inventory up 13% (257 vs 223 last year).
• Sales up 4% (46 vs 44 last year).
• Top sale: $7,000,000 - 5 Fayerweather Street near Brattle Street, Cambridge, 1894 Victorian with 5 bedrooms on a quarter-acre lot.
• LandVests markets continue to perform strongly with significant record sales.
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For LandVest brokers Wade Weathers and Story Jenks, 2019 is revealing a new trend: we are beginning to see more dual income couples with young families make the decision to invest in a Vermont second home around the $1 million price [...]