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LandVest Welcomes Joshua McDorman to Lead Mitigation Banking & Environmental Crediting Efforts06.04.2026

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  LandVest is pleased to welcome Joshua McDorman as Project Manager, Mitigation Banking & Environmental Crediting, further expanding the firm’s expertise in natural capital, conservation, and environmental markets. Josh joins the [...]

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LandVest | Christie's 2016 Unparalleled Record of Success

LandVest and Christies continued to help our clients to global success in 2016. From world-class art to great New England and Adirondack properties, there was one common theme:


Quality wins is the real take-away from this season of sales

-- Christies Global President Jussi Pylkknen.


TOP ART SALES

Claude Monet brings top dollar for impressionists. Meule" sold for $81,447,500 just over $1 million more than the previous record, which was set at Christies London in 2008.

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The Impressionist & Modern Art market is alive and well. The market is motivated by the quality of material thats available, and with Impressionism, the highest quality is getting more and more scarce. Brooke Lampley, Christies

A new world auction record was also set for Wassily Kandinsky, whose Rigide et Courb (1935) the most important of the artists Paris period paintings to ever appear on the market sold for $23,319,500. Full article: http://www.christies.com/features/Results-from-the-Impressionist-and-Modern-Evening-Sale-November-2016-7925-3.aspx

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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). Rigide et Courb, 1935. Oil and sand on canvas, 44 x 63 in (114 x 162.4 cm).

The market post-Great Recession has been all about quality. LandVest is unique in the marketplace in that we focus on a curated set of properties designed to appeal to discriminating buyers. LandVest, Christies and our global affiliates tap into a market for beauty and joy, with the assurance that what they are buying is truly great.

- Ruth Kennedy Sudduth, LandVest

 

RECORD and TOP REAL ESTATE SALESin NEW ENGLAND, 2016

Aerial Photo In Kennebunk, ME - Top Real Estate Sales in New England  Image: Top Real Estate Sales in New England - MA & RI  Image: Top Real Estate Sales in New England - NH & VT

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