April: SOLO First Aid for Hiking & Biking. For course date and more details, contact Kingdom Adventures Mountain Guides at 802-274-4112 or kamountainguides@gmail.com.
April 2: Fair Housing Month Kickoff! Celebrate the beginning of Fair Housing Month and learn about events and activities around the state. Zoom meeting, 12:30-1:30 p.m. For [...]
Through March 7: WinterBike Fat Bike Festival. Presented by Mountain Bike Vermont and Kingdom Trails. Ride on more than 26 miles of cold-rolled single-track. For details, visit www.kingdomtrails.org.
Through March 7: 11th Annual Hope on the Slopes. Jay Peak Resort. Come together and support, celebrate and remember loved ones impacted by cancer. Visit [...]
Should I List Now or Wait Until Spring?
We frequently hear this question, so we felt it was worth answering. Many sellers believe it’s best to wait until spring to list their properties because there are more buyers in the spring. While this is true, they often forget that there is also a flood of new listings in the spring, so the increased buyer activity is negated by the increase in listings. It’s also easy for your property to be overlooked in the deluge of spring listings.
Winter does present some challenges for selling. Your landscaping and curb appeal might not shine, you can't open the windows for showings, and moving in colder temperatures with the threat of snow is no picnic. However, there are several advantages:
· Winter buyers, in general, aren’t tire kickers. In an ideal world, few people would choose to move in the winter, so when a buyer is looking in the winter you know they’re serious.
· Vermont is a 4 season recreational state. Many tourists come to VT during the winter to downhill ski and ride, to Nordic ski, fat bike and / or snowmobile. If your home is anywhere near any of these, winter might expose your property to a completely different audience.
· The advent of the internet has made winter shopping easier. Gone are the days of trying to evaluate a property based on one photo and a few words in the local paper. Now buyers have access to 30-40 photos, 3-D tours, multiple pages of data, neighborhood data, Google street view, and aerial maps with just a few clicks.
· The process from list to close can be cleaner and quicker, since the parties instrumental to a sale—attorneys, inspectors, lenders, and appraisers—tend to have less on their plates. This means a winter sale may result in a less stressful transaction.
Let's take a look at last winter (November 1, 2018— March 31, 2019), when 342 properties were sold in the Northeast Kingdom. Not too shabby for a time of year when most consumers think the market is dead.
Finally, you never know when the right buyer for your property is going to enter the market, but you don't want to miss the opportunity. So, if you’re ready to sell and your home is ready to list, think twice about waiting and trying to time the market perfectly.
If you are considering listing your home or land, don’t hesitate to reach out to a member of the C21 Farm & Forest team—the top-selling agency in the NEK—we’d be happy to provide a market analysis or offer suggestions for getting your home ready to sell.
We are excited to announce a new client / customer benefit. If you buy or sell through us we allow you to use our moving truck for FREE*. We know moving can be stressful so we are offering this to not only make your move more affordable but also easier! Our truck is equipped with a loading ramp, dolly, moving blankets and straps to secure [...]
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Equity Builder Funds are available this week – that's up to a $15,000 grant for income qualified buyers. Equity Builder Funds:
Assist eligible home buyers with up to $15,000 in down payment and closing costs;
Are available to households with incomes at or below 80% of HUD area median income based on property location;
Recipients must attend home buyer education/counseling
The Newport Farmers Market opens this Saturday, May 9th! Located at 246 Causeway (across the street from the Waterfront Plaza; between the North Country Chamber of Commerce building and I-91 access road) this is your place to buy local. Open 9 a.m. 'til 2:00 p.m., rain or shine, through October 17th and every Wednesday, same hours, starting [...]
If you haven't headed over to the Jay Hotel & Conference Center in Jay, VT, it's not too late! We'll be there tonight until 8:00 p.m. and tomorrow (Saturday, April 18th) from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. We'd love to chat and answer any questions you have about selling or buying. Click [...]
As reported by The Orleans County Record (4/7/15), groundbreaking for the AnC VT facility in Newport City, VT is scheduled to begin on May 12th. Construction is expected to take 14 to 16 months. The facility will house three different activities - research and development of adult stem cell therapies for diseases such as cancer; making [...]
AnC Bio, the biomedical facility being developed in Newport City, Vermont with money from the federal EB-5 visa program, is back on track and this is good news for the Northeast Kingdom. The announcement came earlier this week - click here to read more.
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