Why Local Knowledge Still Matters in the Age of Zillow

Buying real estate has changed dramatically.

Not that long ago, buyers depended almost entirely on real estate agents to tell them what properties were available. Today, you can sit on your couch at 10:30 at night and search hundreds of homes, camps, waterfront properties, and parcels [...]

You Found 20 Acres in Maine. Now What?

Twenty acres.

For someone accustomed to looking at quarter-acre house lots, that can sound enormous.

You start imagining a house set back from the road, a big garage, trails through the woods, a garden, maybe a small farm, hunting out the back door, and enough room that seeing your neighbors becomes [...]