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Jan
23
LandVest Grabs Top Spots for Highest Sales in Greater Boston Area
By LandVest
 

Once again, LandVest properties grab two of the top spots for the highest sales in Greater Boston area this year! According to Boston.com, two LandVest listings were in the top ten ranking for luxury properties this year:

Top 5 Spot: 130 Warren Road in Brookline

Top 7 Spot: 7 Smith’s Point Road in Manchester By-the-Sea

Ranking at the fifth spot on the list, 130 Warren Street in Brookline sold for $9,000,000 last year. Located in the Country Club area of Brookline on 3.7 acres, this magnificent estate is an English cottage-style, three story residence. 130 Warren Street was sold by the LandVest Boston team of Terrence Maitland and Nicole Monahan.

Click here for more Brookline area listings or please contact Terrence Maitland (tmaitland@landvest.com) or Nicole Monahan (nmonahan@landvest.com).

7 Smith’s Point Road in Manchester was sold for $8,400,000 making it the seventh highest sale in 2012 for the Greater Boston area. This extraordinary estate offers the utmost in waterfront living situated on over 6 oceanfront acres on the exclusive peninsula, Smith’s Point. 7 Smith’s Point Road was sold by LandVest’s own Lanse Robb of the Boston office.

Click here for more Manchester waterfront listings or please contact Lanse Robb (lrobb@landvest.com).

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Jan
10
Essex County, Boston’s North Shore, Named One of the Hottest Real Estate Markets for 2013!
By LandVest
 

Per the Boston Globe, Essex County is named one of the healthiest real estate markets in the United States. Lanse Robb, LandVest’s North Shore Director of residential sales, was again, ranked the #1 broker in Essex County for high-end real estate sales for 2012.

The North Shore of Boston has long been sought after as a place to call home. The excellent school systems, proximity to New England’s best beaches and ease of commute into Boston are just a few reasons for the historic interest. “Buyers are continuing to move into high quality, well located, real estate as part of their overall investment and educational needs strategy, ” Lanse Robb states. The high-end/luxury market is also seeing a healthy revival. We are currently seeing limited availability of high-end, waterfront property, meaning that those who see properties they like need to act quickly; it is also an opportune time for sellers to market their properties.

Seastream, a newly listed LandVest listing, is a wonderful opportunity to own a waterfront property on the private Cole’s Island in Gloucester. Click here for additional LandVest properties on the North Shore. If you are interested in buying or selling a property on the North Shore, please visit Lanse’s web site or contact him directly at lrobb@landvest.com.

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Nov
23
Why Investing in North Shore Waterfront Property is a Good Move
By LandVest
 

Wimbeldon is a private 8,000 square foot residence set on Manchester Harbor with a two unit, waterfront, carriage house that currently generates $48,000 annually of rental income. This unique property commands sweeping lawns, gardens, and mature trees all set on over 3.3± acres. The property also comes with a tidal dock very close to the outer harbor.

Wimbledon is minutes away from the town dock, beach and commuter rail to Boston. Manchester boasts a new $49,000,000 regional middle and high school. The average residential single family sale price is $1,175,000 in the last 5 years. The average asking price for current properties on the market is $1,658,042.

This is an opportunity to own one of the few available waterfront estates in Manchester by the Sea.

Click here for other properties on the North Shore.

For more information on North Shore’s real estate market, contact Lanse Robb (lrobb@landvest.com)

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Oct
4
LandVest is Pleased to Present a New England Listing on the North Shore
By LandVest
 

Another North Shore waterfront gem hits the market. LandVest is pleased to present one of only two waterfront properties available on Gloucester’s exclusive community of Eastern Point.

The Boulders

Click here to see more property details

8 Aileen Terrace, Gloucester, MA

1.28± acres

$3,495,000

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Jul
9
Pleasant Bay – A Natural Wonderland in Orleans, MA
By LandVest
 

Pleasant Bay is one of the most biologically diverse and productive marine habitats on the east coast of the United States. It is also a world-class destination for wind surfing, sailing, power boating, fishing, and just simply enjoying miles of sandy beaches, islands, estuaries, and marshes. It is the largest bay contiguous to the Cape Cod National Seashore, covers more than 7,000 acres at high tide, and is bordered by the towns of Brewster, Chatham, Harwich, and Orleans. Probably the most famous of the many beaches is Nauset in Orleans, which serves as a barrier between the Atlantic and Pleasant Bay and is a popular destination for surfers and surf fishing.

The Friends of Pleasant Bay is a public membership organization that serves to “preserve and enhance the natural, visual, and historic resources of Pleasant Bay”. Membership funds support education and research on wildlife and coastal processes and recreational activities such as Pleasant Bay Community Boating, the Pleasant Bay Youth Regatta, Cape Atlantic Challenge, the Namequoit Sailing Association, and Coast Sweep. Their website is a good resource for information about activities on and around Pleasant Bay.

LandVest frequently lists special properties in the towns around Pleasant Bay with current listings in Chatham, Harwich Port, and Orleans.

View of Pleasant Bay from deck of Viking Point,
a waterfront estate property on 7± acres in Orleans, MA

Viking Point in Orleans is one of the most extraordinary properties on Pleasant Bay. Located at the end of a private road, the elevated site of seven acres on two separate lots offers magnificent panoramic views from the Namequoit River to Little Pleasant Bay and beyond. The main house and two guesthouses provide room for an extended family in seven bedrooms, six full and one half baths, as well as three fireplaces. There are 985 feet of frontage on Little Pleasant Bay, including a sandy beach, pier with a float, and a boathouse. There is also a tennis court and tennis house with half-bath. With a recently reduced price of $6,400,000 and the potential for subdivision into two and perhaps three lots, this property is a great value for a unique Pleasant Bay family compound.

LandVest has a wonderful selection of listings on Cape Cod with more in the works and there are always private listings percolating in the background. Check us out at www.landvest.com or call Stewart Young at 617-357-8930 or syoung@landvest.com

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Jun
30
The Sailing World Turns its Eyes to Rhode Island
By LandVest
 

For the first time in 18 years, the competition for the oldest trophy in international sport (the America’s Cup) returns to the United States.  This week Newport, Rhode Island will be the first American venue for the lead-up to the 34th America’s Cup. Prior to racing for the Cup, teams compete in the World Series. The America’s Cup World Series is a regular circuit of regattas, bringing Cup racing to top venues around the world. The America’s Cup World Series allows the teams and their sailors to prepare for the Louis Vuitton Cup (the America’s Cup Challenger Series) and then, if fortunate enough, the America’s Cup Finals in San Francisco in September.

This year the first America’s Cup World Series circuit champion will be crowned in Newport, RI, the town that hosted Americas’ Cup racing from 1930 to 1983. The nine-day event is scheduled to run between June 23 and July 1, 2012. This exciting set of races features AC45 wing-sailed catamarans racing on short, tight courses within Newport Harbor. The start/finish line will be just off the shoreline and will afford incredible spectator access along numerous points on the waterfront.

As the event is drawing teams, fans and sponsors from New Zealand/UAE, England, Sweden, France, China, Italy and Korea, LandVest has targeted this event as a cross promotional opportunity to expand its already industry-leading international outreach. The following listings could be perfect venues to take in this round of Americas Cup races, or make this part of the world home. LandVest looks forward to seeing old friends and making new connections at this truly international celebration of sailing!

LandVestThis blog post was brought to you by Terry Boyle who assists buyers and sellers of distinctive and complex real estate transactions on the South Shore and South Coast/Buzzards Bay real estate markets of Massachusetts. Contact Terry Boyle (tboyle@landvest.com) in our Boston, Massachusetts office if you’d like to talk about this property or his other real estate listings in Massachusetts.

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Jun
27
North Shore Real Estate Price Reduction – 505 Summer Street, Manchester, MA 01944
By LandVest
 

Newly Priced: Luxury Oceanfront Estate and Guesthouse
in Seaside Village of Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA

Summer Street Oceanfront Estate

1.79± acres
505 Summer Street
Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
$6,400,000


Located on Boston’s North Shore, this Manchester by-the-Sea picturesque estate is situated on the quiet inlet of Kettle Cove. With spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean, and direct access to Black Beach (a private, sandy beach), the property which was recently mentioned in North Shore Magazine includes a renovated main residence with a gourmet kitchen, ocean-facing dining room, and a first floor master bedroom suite with his and hers closets. The additional two-story carriage house completed in 2006 features two bedrooms, a magnificent great room with exposed beams and a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, catering kitchen, and decks overlooking Lily Pond. There is a boathouse sited at the water’s edge. This new price reduction presents a rare value offer for waterfront within an easy commute of Boston.

For more information on this property,  click here or contact Lanse Robb (lrobb@landvest.com) at LandVest in Boston, MA

Click here to view more North Shore Real Estate for Sale

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Jun
25
South Shore Golf Course Homes for Sale Offer More than a Round of Golf
By LandVest
 
“Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty” – Harry Vardon

For many, the game of golf is a lifelong passion and provides endless enjoyment and challenge. For others, it is a pleasant diversion from the pressures of everyday life. For ardent golfers, a home on a golf course is the best place on earth. They would seem to be the prime candidates to own on a golf course; however, in the US, only 15% of those who purchase homes on or close to a golf course play golf. If it’s not for the convenient access to golf, what is the attraction of golf course real estate?

Most buyers of homes in communities around golf courses appreciate the open space and natural beauty without the burden of maintaining it themselves. Often, amenities like pools, tennis courts, walking trails, fitness clubs or a private beach attract homebuyers to these locations.

In addition, community maintenance of the common areas contributes to home values. Golf is just one of the activities that encourage a sense of community. Considering all of these positive factors, a home on a golf course combines recreation, community and physical beauty regardless of whether the homeowners play twice a day or not at all.

LandVest, a leader in the marketing of luxury residential real estate for over 40 years, has the following golf course listings:

Round Hill Lot

Round Hill Lot in South Dartmouth, MA

ROUND HILL is an exceptional golf community on the South Coast of Massachusetts. Centered on the former Edward Howland Robinson Green estate (the only son of Hetty Green), a 1920′s granite mansion built on an extraordinary waterfront site, the Round Hill community offers golf, tennis, beaches, clubhouse and walking trails.

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Butler’s Point

Butler's Point in Marion, MA

Within putting range of the famous Kittansett Club at the tip of a long waterfront peninsula with fine views over Buzzard’s Bay, BUTLER’S POINT offers the best of waterfront living in a Marion, MA a classic New England coastal town known for wonderful golf, sailing, and sense of community.

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This blog is brought to you by Terry Boyle , who specializes in unique properties on Boston’s South Shore and South Coast. For more information on luxury real estate on or near golf courses, please contact one of our brokers,  or visit our website at www.landvest.com.

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Jun
23
Historic 24-Acre Maine Island for Sale, Included: Fort Scammel
By LandVest
 

Whenever I take a tour of one of our properties, I play the If This Were My House game. Usually, I begin by imagining where I’d pay homage to my favorite objet d’art and end with holiday decorating.  However, when LandVest broker John Scribner took me out to his latest Maine real estate offering, my mind began to race, and the If This Were My Island game began.

House Island in Casco Bay is not our usual, extraordinary LandVest listing.  You might call it extra-extraordinary.  With its perfect,  near-shore but private and protected location,  it has the ingredients to make it an exemplary LandVest listing.  An exemplary listing which includes the added bonus of owning your own Fort.  Not a tree-house kind of fort, but, a circa 1807 Civil War fort with subterranean rooms, tunnels and stairways of granite and brick.  The kind of fort thatsent my imagination into marathon mode.  Even if, in the end,  its best use is to leave it as is, how fun to say, “I am the proud steward of Fort Scammel.”

As with our other “private islands for sale”, how nice to never have to worry about who is going to buy the abutting properties, and how incredible it would be to start and finish your morning and evening commute by boat, or perhaps only leave the island when in need of a night out at one of Portland’s fine restaurants.   And for those who are lovers of all creatures great and small, the abundant ocean life – seals, ospreys, gulls  and the resident family of deer–are sure to cause one to stop and gaze.  Yes,  House Island with the included Fort Scammel, appeals on so many  levels:

  • History – Circa 1808 Fort Scammel, was originally built as an eight-sided wooden blockhouse and intended to protect the harbor from the British. From the 1840′s to the 1870′s, the fort was modernized and enlarged with granite bastions and earthworks for the coastal defense of the United States. It was touted as one of the best-preserved Civil War era forts in existence. The Island also served as a quarantine station for immigrants.
  • So close but so far away – The privacy and quiet of a remote island, yet just a quick 5 minute boat ride to Portland, Maine, and all its rich cultural and epicurean offerings.
  • Family Compound/Corporate Retreat – Complete with three ready-to-renovate residences, and ample room to roam. It’s no wonder why, over the years, the island has hosted countless corporate events and private family celebrations.

If this were my island, my stewardship would begin with an extended friends and family grand lobster bake, including volleyball, badminton, and Wiffle Ball. I would ask my friend to bring his guitar for when we gather ’round the beach-side bonfire, and then with a gathering of the troupes we’d head out for a twilight tour through Fort Scammel to the room where they used to store gunpowder and where I have made one of the coolest wine cellars in the world! (Note, the wine cellar is purely imaginary).

If you missed all the talk about House Island, click on videos and news links below:

Peaksfest Backdrop for House Island Listing

Private Island in Portland Harbor is For Sale

What Does 4.8 Million Get You? Plenty of Privacy!

Opinion: House Island Sale Shows Need for Public Land Fund


For more information or to arrange for a visit to House Island , please contact John Scribner at 207-874-2057 or jscribner@landvest.com.

Click to view more extraordinary Islands and Island Properties for sale

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Jun
21
Shingle-Style–Always In Style
By LandVest
 

Red Oaks in Cohasset, MA is an up-to-the-minute interpretation
of an early 20th century Shingle Style classic

The Shingle-Style is a uniquely American architectural style that evolved in the last quarter of the 19th century, in part as a renewed interest in Colonial American architecture following the 1876 centennial celebration, and, in part, as a reaction to the highly ornamented and colorfully painted Queen Anne-style. The Shingle-Style adopted the visually taut plain-shingled surfaces of colonial buildings, with the exterior simply mirroring the interior spaces. In contrast to the equally sized cross-gables of various Victorian-style buildings, Shingle-Style houses often use a single large roof, such as a gambrel or hip roof with smaller often-irregular gables. Ornamentation is kept to a minimum and aims for the effect of a complex shape enclosed within a smooth exterior. Arches, covered porches, and towers that blend into the house are common features. The style reached its highest expression in fashionable summer destinations such as Cape Cod, coastal Maine, Newport, and Long Island. Some of the more famous architects were Henry Hobson Richardson and William Ralph Emerson in Boston, John Calvin Stevens in Portland, Maine, and the firms of Peabody & Stearns in Boston and McKim, Mead & White in New York. Shingle-Style is unusually free form and variable and has inspired modern traditionalists such as Robert Venturi and Robert A.M. Stern who put their own unique spin on this versatile form.

LandVest, as one of the leading brokers of luxury real estate on the New England coast, relishes opportunities to showcase great Shingle-Style properties. Some of our current and recent Shingle-Style listings include:

RED OAKS, 63 Nichols Rd, Cohasset, MA
A complete rebuild by Robert A.M. Stern of a 1906 waterfront manor house

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FAIRVIEW WATERFRONT COMPOUND, Church St,Woods Hole, MA
A magnificent elevated 7.5 ± acre site with nearly nine hundred feet of waterfront with spectacular views of Vineyard Sound and the Elizabeth Islands and a 1918 Shingle-Style house and two renovated three-bedroom guest houses.

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29 SMITH’S POINT, Smith’s Point Rd, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA
Originally designed in 1882 by Peabody and Stearns as the carriage house for “Kragsyde“, one of the most famous Shingle-Style houses built in America and the summer home of Bostonian G. Nixon Black.

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For more Shingle-Style homes for sale or to see other New England Coastal and Waterfront listings, you can contact one of our brokers or visit the LandVest website at www.landvest.com.

LandvestThis post was brought to you by Stewart Young, expert in Cape Cod and Boston MetroWest Real Estate. Click for Stewart’s current listings including Cape Cod Private listings not available on the public market.

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