Lake Champlain Waterfront Homes Market Snapshot

Colchester Sunset Over Lake Champlain

What’s going on with Lake Champlain waterfront  real estate? Lake Champlain waterfront home sales have been tepid at best with only 14 sales year to date. Due to the current economy and the fact that those with money are just not spending it waterfront home sales have been severely lagging. With that said inventories are [...]

Colchester Vermont Market Snapshot

What’s going on with real estate? Now that the federal tax credit deadline has passed things should be returning to “normal”. What normal will be should prove to be interesting… Following are real estate statistics for Colchester Vermont as of 05.06.10: Homes for sale:                              85 Average List Price:                      $472,218 Currently Under Deposit:         39 Sold Year [...]

Local Agent Offers Property Search App For iPhone

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John Abry, a forward thinking agent at RE/MAX North Professionals, is offering one of the areas first real estate property search applications for the increasingly popular Apple iPhone as well as the iPod Touch and iPad. John has made this app available for free in an effort to give mobile buyers easy access to local [...]

Free Appliance Round Up

The Chittenden Solid Waste District accepts major household appliances for a small fee throughout the year at all of our drop-off centers, but twice a year we waive the fees and residents may bring them in for free. Click here for locations: http://www.cswd.net/facilities/dropoff_centers.shtml Please note that this round up is open to Chittenden County residents [...]

Burlington Vermont Best Place To Raise Your Kids

It just keeps getting better! Burlington Vermont ranks yet again as one of the best places in the country to raise your kids. As if Backpacker Magazine and Business Week weren’t enough Children’s Health Magazine ranked Burlington as the number one place for raising kids for the following reasons: “Living on Lake Champlain rewards you [...]

Will the $8,000 federal tax credit be extended?

The market continues to plug along here in Chittenden County. According to the local MLS, as of October 1st, there were 952 homes listed for sale in Chittenden County which is only 33 more than the same time last year. The average time on market was 131 days. The absorption rate (which is the amount [...]

Burlington Vermont makes another Top 10

Our beloved Burlington Vermont has made it into yet another Top 10. According to the August 2009 Issue of Backpacker Magazine Burlington came in 8th as “one of the best cities to raise an outdoor kid”. Why you ask? Here’s what they say: Kids can enroll in weeklong wilderness-survival summer camp Healthiest city in U.S. [...]

09.05.09 – Here’s what’s happening in real estate in Chittenden County

The real estate market activity during this past month is bustling. Our office has had two near record months in a row. First time home buyers are still leading the charge in an attempt to capitalize on the $8,000 federal tax credit which is due to expire this November 30th. So, if you know of [...]

Vermont continues to have by far the lowest foreclosure rate in US

Once again the Green Mountain State stands out from the crowd: “A national rating firm has once again ranked Vermont as having the lowest home foreclosure rate in the nation, based on second quarter and year-to-date numbers. Vermont has both the fewest foreclosures over the first half of the year and the lowest rate as [...]

$8,000.00 tax federal credit

What’s amazing is the number of people who are still not aware of the tax credit. Lots of people don’t understand that this is real money that will either come back to them in the form of a refund or be deducted off the bottom line of their tax bill. Let’s not let this money [...]