LandVest had another productive year in 2023, closing nearly $800 million in sales within our Institutional Land Group. We represented our clients across 19 states transacting almost 280,000 acres of land. The market was mixed in 2023 across sectors with strong demand for scaled institutional forestland portfolios, while the market for retail and mid-sized land properties softened.

Forestland markets have changed substantially in the past 18-24 months, perhaps more rapidly than at any other time in recent history. Throughout the pandemic (March 2020 onwards), we saw a substantial increase in transaction activity.

Forestry is often seen as logging and the harvesting of trees. That is partially true. However, those tasks are only a portion of what LandVest foresters accomplish for our clients. To achieve sustainable forest management, our staff must be knowledgeable in many scientific, economic and social disciplines. I always equate a career in [...]

Stacks of photo albums sit on the table next to the fireplace at Selcombeand capture the daily life of a summer placein Brookline, Vermont over the last one hundred years. Five generations have loved this 750-acre hill farm with its swimming hole, 1819 brick Cape and English-style barn.Each generation has pasted in photosandrecordeda [...]

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, [...]

by Brian Handwerk for LandVest

Forests are natural weapons against climate change. Through the simple process of photosynthesis, they absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping greenhouse gas found in fossil fuel emissions. The good news for landowners is that governments are

Understanding Your Property's Value Components and Positioning Yourself for a Successful Sale

  When timberland investors look to acquire a property, they are interested in two key value components: timber and land. Pretty straightforward it's right there in the name however, the timber component is often overlooked, or at least diminished, [...]