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, [...]

Winter is on the wane in Northern New England. While some may call it "mud season", others think of March as a sweet time of year. The sap starts running and the maple sugar houses offer gallons of maple syrup, sugar on snow, maple candies, and fun events such as pancake breakfasts and horse-drawn [...]

What do you prefer? Saltwater or freshwater? Lake or ocean? Sail or motor? Dock or mooring? Whatever your boating preference, we have a house that fits the bill. Our collection of Great Homes for Boaters includes properties across New England and the Adirondacks that are geared towards life on the [...]

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 [...]

Is there any day of the year thats more all-American than NFL's championship game day? Whether youre a diehard fan or youre only watching for the commercials, game day is a great excuse to gather together with family and friends and kick back on a chilly winters day. And what better way to watch the big game and its over-the-top halftime [...]

People are Moving for Jobs

The latest 2018 figures are in, and for two years in a row now, our brave little state beat out the Sunbelt and the Mountain and Pacific states for a share of inbound moves. While the overall trend is a move West, Vermont had the highest percentage of inbound migration in the country in [...]

The dominant topic in real estate in this cycle is the vast out-performanceof urban versus rural areas in this recovery. The graphic below shows the rapid pace of land price appreciation (shown in blue) in urban areas compared to the decline (in red) in rural and exurban areas. Lets take a deeper look at what is going on.

Demographics are driving this [...]

Living in the country, we just love seeing the beautiful horses and horse and carriages on the road. It really makes us feel like we are somewhere different.

Deb and Garrett

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in one of LandVests properties? We invite our owners to tell us a bit about their experience, what they love about [...]