Barre Montpelier Real Estate

A title like that ought to get people's attention... I suppose there are places in the country where all the houses are the same, and where all the houses kind of make sense.  What fun is that?  I had the pleasure of touring a few homes for sale in Barre today.  My favorite adventure was for the ...

The owners of this home for sale in Calais are ready to make a deal.   Here's a 4 bedroom, 2 bath cape on 48 acres of surveyed land on both sides of the road.  New countertops, new hardwood floors, woodstove insert, partially finished basement, deck, front porch, attached garage.  There's even a ...

Norwich University and Northfield VT Homes for Sale Around this time of year, faculty and staff (military and civilian) at Norwich University who are coming or going, actually start coming and going.  Both civilian and military faculty positions change frome time to time, and there are always peo...

Best Slice in Montpelier, VT I told the guy behind the counter that Village Pizza in Montpelier, VT has the best slices in town.  He asked me, "According to whom?"  According to me! What I like best is that you can actually buy slices.  It's right across the street from my office, and sometimes I...

Here are the monthly numbers for the real estate markets in Montpelier, Barre, Northfield/Roxbury, U-32, and Marshfield/Plainfield.  It seems that each month when I do this analysis, there's something else I want to add. For April, I added two pieces of information.  First, the "Contingent" colum...

Just totally NAILED the first unit in my continuing ed.  Granted, there are 10 more units, but hey, I nailed the first one. When I was in school, my parents would take us out for ice cream cones if we had good report cards.  It's 10:45, the 3 year-old is sound asleep, the one-year old just woke u...

Here are the monthly numbers for the real estate markets in Montpelier, Barre, Northfield/Roxbury, U-32, and Marshfield/Plainfield.  It seems that each month when I do this analysis, there's something else I want to add. For May, I added two pieces of information.  First, the "Contingent" column....

The Barre Recreation, Sport, and Home Show is just about to get under way.  This year, there's a different set of vendors and displays, which could really be interesting.  Onion River Sports is going to be there, evidently with a climbing wall for kids (and maybe Realtors??).  There will also be ...

All of a sudden, a couple of very nice homes for sale in Barre have gone under contract.  I'm talking in the $400s.  And this is on the heels of a March in which there were ZERO sales in Barre Town. Could this mean that buyers are finally taking advantage of the repressed prices, and buying value...

When my wife and I bought our first fixer upper in Montpelier, a friend used that expression.  She was right.  We bought the smelly house, fixed it up, rented it for a year, sold it to the tenants, and came out ahead.  Not bad for first timers, we thought. I appreciate it when buyers have the sam...