Phew, this has been a wild and crazy year.  If social media is to be trusted, its been that way not just for me but for everyone.  It also appears we are coming to the end of a ten year phase that will shed this month and start anew for us...

We were delighted to represent the new owners of this iconic Bar Harbor property, Brightholme. My colleague and team mate Erika Mitchell did an amazing job for the new buyers with a complicated sale.  While we are thrilled for our clients to...

Woah, December.  I don’t know why but I always look at December as an ending, a wrap up of another chapter of life.  I know I should just look at it as holiday time but under the surface I am always thinking, well that’s that....

Holiday season….  It’s a little crazy how we go from packed streets in Bar Harbor until the end of October now to November and the end of paid parking on downtown streets because there are so many spots available. Then election day...

September was a crazy real estate month.  Is it more supply, lowering interest rates, pre hibernation activity?  I’m not sure.  I just know that one of the sales was one of my own favorite properties and I have such mixed feelings...

September came so fast I had to be reminded to write a post for this blog. August is always chaotic but it seemed like everyone and everything was an extra bit out of control. It definitely wasn't as social a summer, I hear that from a lot of...

Hey August, where have you been? July seemed really long this year, everyone talks about the summer flying by and it usually does seem that way but not this year, not for me anyway.  Maybe it’s just that I had six months worth of work to...

Eponymous Perfection Does it seem to you that every year when the weather gets warm, the spring flowers have already gone by and the first big tourist influx arrives that we jump off the blocks at a world record pace to get to July 4th? Then we...

June is that time of the year that you get to see if all your work over the winter and spring pays off - luckily most of the time it does. It's also my birthday month which I love because I love being a Gemini but I don't love because I'm...

We are scrambling, as we always do in May in Maine.  Getting businesses ready, plantings done (we have to wait until later than most), making monumental decisions about the future. One such decision as I write this is hiring a Farm Manager,...