…not be isolated. It is a rural location, yet still close enough to what one needs to lead a modern life. Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor have a year-round community life,…
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…of the Covid diaspora leaving New York, Boston, and other cities for a rural work-from-home, quality-of-life existence. With more buyers than sellers, multiple bids are not uncommon. Compounding the problem…
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I start my walk in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, an early example of the “rural” or “garden” cemetery. Its rolling landscape set in a park-like setting became popular in the mid-nineteenth…
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…the recovery matured. What are we seeing in market activity in the COVID-19 context? A clear preference for rural, exurban, and suburban properties with space and amenities. There are sound…
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…Our timberland management operations are relatively uninterrupted. The rural nature of timber communities, coupled with the consistent demand for pulp, paper, and packaging have allowed us to operate at normal…
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…a long private driveway, high on an east-facing knoll overlooking a meadow and small pond, Myrtle Hill retains its rural sense of place. The main house, built c. 1900 by…
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Millennials moving to the ‘burbs and inflection points for the markets The buzz of the post-Great Recession cycle has been all about hot urban markets at the expense of the…
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…a rural agrarian community to a collection of college towns and even a booming urban landscape. Franklin County Photo by Todd Diemer As Massachusetts’s most rural county, Franklin is reminiscent…
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…far more than its capacity to produce forest products sustainably. We all live in rural communities that have a culture and economy predicated on a foundation of sustainably managed forestland….
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