Terry Sortwell in our Camden, Maine real estate office offers his perspective on a recent Economist piece.

This graph representing the economic policy uncertainty index appears in an article in the latest Economist magazine. Historically, when the uncertainty index has been below the average of 100, we have had a strong real estate market at the upper end--i.e., 1992 to 2000; 2002; and 2003 to [...]

The Jewel of Sebago Lake Located on 19 Waterfront Acres

Sebago Lake Estate, 64 Sunset Chimney Road, Raymond, ME - $10,600,000

Federal Style Historic Residence in Rockport

Berwick Hill Estate, 111 Camden Street, Rockport, ME - $4,500,000

Peaceful Property Near the Country Club and Park Trails in Southwest Harbor

The Killick, 12 Connor Point Lane, Southwest Harbor, ME -

The Minot Wharf House on North Haven Island is an unusual, historic property on the Fox Islands Thoroughfare, right in the heart of North Havens quaint village waterfront. Located on the wharf adjacent to the yacht club, the house has ten bedrooms and loads of charm. This month its featured in Architectural Digests On the Market segment.

Foodies in midcoast Maine are celebrating last weeks news that Primo restaurant owner and chef Melissa Kelly has won the James Beard awardone of the highest accolades in the culinary world. This is the second award for Kelly (she won when she was chef at Old Chatham Sheepherding Co. in New York)making her the first chef ever to win the [...]

Ospreys and bald eagles soar high above, scouting for fish. Harbor seals sun themselves on pink granite ledges. A mother fox teaches her kits to hunt. A great blue heron stands sentry in the cove, and thousands of songbirds flutter among the trees. Lady slippers and lichens line trails through spruce forest. Changing seasons bring wild [...]

In the late 1920s, heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney married socialite Mary Polly Lauder, whose father had recently built a house on Johns Island, a gem of an island located smack dab in the middle of Johns Bay, between the Bristol and South Bristol branches of the Pemaquid peninsula. The property became the Tunneys summer home for generations to [...]

Owls Head, Maine is a tiny hamlet of only 1600 people. Fishing and lobstering are still the mainstays of the towns economy. Theres one general store, one post office where the postmaster calls everyone by name, and one elementary school. The small state park has a spectacular crescent beach and a few picnic tables in the woods.

The towns [...]

Were always pleased when our listings catch designers eyes. Its no surprise that the Norumbega Carriage House did so recentlyits an architecturally stunning historic house that was completely renovated to the highest standards by its current owners. This beautiful home for sale in Camden, Maine, was recently featured in [...]

In the 1960s and 1970s, renowned artist Neil Welliver established his homestead in Lincolnville, a small rural community on the coast of Maine. Over time, Welliver (the dean of contemporary landscape painting) acquired over 1000 acres of forest and farmlandno small feat in a town just 15 minutes from the bustling seaside villages of Camden and [...]