About
Kimberly Swan
Kim Swan is a real estate investor and entrepreneurial visionary focused on waterfront and commercial properties in Hancock County, Maine.
Investments consist primarily of hospitality properties, current and past Maine holdings include Swan Song Saltwater Farm and Cottage Collection in Sullivan/Gouldsboro, Fox Pond Estate in Maine Township #10, Pomegranate House in Prospect Harbor. Formerly: Bayview Oceanfront Hotel in Bar Harbor, Pomegranate Inn in Portland, Danforth Inn in Portland, Captain Lindsey House in Rockland, West End Inn in Portland, Brunswick Inn on Park Row in Brunswick, Ocean Gate Inn on Southport Island, Smugglers Cove in East Boothbay, Captain Bennett House in Southwest Harbor, Eden Village in Bar Harbor. Our current hospitality acquisition model is waterfront properties to reposition, reinvigorate and reimagine increasing revenue through methods other than increased occupancy.
She is the compassionate developer of Swan Song Saltwater Farm, a built from scratch micro resort in Sullivan, Maine initiated in 2024 focused on a cruelty free healthy environment with accommodations, animal sanctuary, organic gardens, farm store and event venue. The Farm comprises 53 acre with over 3500 feet of shorefrontage looking across the bay at Bar Harbor and mountains in Acadia National Park.
Recent acquisitions of the Fox Pond Estate, an 880 acre spread in Hancock County and 80 Main Street in Prospect Harbor are currently in the white board stage as part of the Swan Song Collection. Swan's passion for design has many outlets in her real estate pursuits and dictates many of the investment decisions.
Kim purchased the family real estate firm, began in 1975, from her parents in 1994 and built one of Maine's most respected companies and initiated the State's first specialty hospitality brokerage focused on Bed and Breakfast Inns. Swan Agency Real Estate reached it's 50th year in business in April of 2025, Kim decided to celebrate the impressive milestone and then re chart the future of the business. In July of 2025 Kim had found the ideal path forward by merging Swan Agency with Dava Davin's Portside Real Estate Group. Long a fan of Dava's company, management style and philanthropic arm, she knew she had found the perfect hands to entrust the future of the company and the valued associates.
Today Kim's brokerage efforts continue as a member of Swan Agency Private Brokerage of Portside Real Estate Group located at 3 Summit Road in Northeast Harbor. The Northeast Harbor group has offices in the First National Bank NEH building and will be opening a new Main Street office summer of 2026. The Northeast Harbor team is part of Portisde Real Estate Group's 1% for Maine in addition to continuing the Swan Agency Sharing Our Success Program benefitting local non profits.
Artistic endeavors include partner in Maineville Music Publishing with Nashville singer/songwriter/producer, Aaron Benward. Executive producer of the Amazing Music of Mainers. Former producer/host of Living Acadia TV on ABC7. Executive producer of Bar Harbor Historical Society's documentary films: FIRE OF '47, recognizing the 70th Anniversary of the Fire that swept through Bar Harbor in the fall of 1947 and CONSOLIDATION looking back at 50 years of MDI High School and the struggles to establish the school in 1968. Founder of Cygnet Art Gallery in Southwest Harbor.
Current community positions include Director of First National Bank, co-founder of the Diana Fund of MDI Pet Food Pantry, steering committee of the YWCA attainable housing project at Hamilton Station, founder and creative director of the Bar Harbor Designer Showhouse series.
Most importantly, Kim is Mom to kids Cygie, Tilly and Milla - all with four legs and is a constant donor and supporter of animal rescues and the vegetarian lifestyle.
