Liz's Corner - Southern Maine Real Estate News

SOLD! REDUCED!  NOW ONLY $30,000!                     Trees, streams, stone walls, and fields.  This picturesque area in Limerick, Maine has it all. The perfect setting for your dream home, or a weekend get-away to relax in.  2 acres are available, and building envelope can be determined by the b...

  SOLD! PRICE REDUCED - NOW ASKING $19,999.00 22 Leo St, Sanford Maine     Renovated with love, this mobile offers 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, a lovely lot, shed, and a sunroom.  Recent renovations include vinyl siding, pitched metal roof, flooring, paint, some fixtures, electrical, most of the heating u...

    Sold!       TIME TO RETIRE?  DO IT IN STYLE IN THIS SPACIOUS DOUBLEWIDE IN KEYWOOD MANOR!                                      Spacious, immaculate doublewide offers 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, a dining room, a living room, AND a family room, kitchen with abundant cabinetry, an attached garage,...

5.16 acres in "The Ridge" in Acton Maine Price reduced - now asking $52,900 "The Ridge" is located in rural Acton, and only minutes from the New Hampshire border.  With beach rights to Balch Lake, this lot is a short bike away from anything lake-related.  Homes are beautiful in here, including se...

Currently, the state of Maine requires an equal division of the real estate transfer tax at closing to the tune of $4.40 per thousand, shared equally between buyers and sellers.  It's not a horrific number, pretty average from what I can tell by looking at some other states. Boiled down, if you a...

Last week was a historic week in Maine and New Hampshire, with a rainfall to that has had no comparison in recent history.  Driving around during the last week since the storm, I still see trees toppled over, huge pines cracked right down the middle, edges of the road are washed away, and hoses a...

Yes, folks, Maine does do things a little differently! Years ago, when I told my son that Easter was the day when a furry critter would deliver Easter Eggs, I really didn't have a squirrel in mind! Yes, I know this has nothing whatsoever to do with real estate, but these pictures my husband took ...

                       Kermit sure had it right - it DEFINITELY is not easy being "green", especially in a career  that requires marketing (translation: lots and lots of paper), driving (translation: showings, fuel consumption), electronic tools (translation: computers, cell phones, PDA's).  So a...

WHOSE YARDSTICK MEASURES YOUR SUCCESS?Does your company give awards for a job well done?  Do you crave the accolades that the company offers sometime in March for achieving a certain level of production? Most of us, whether we admit it or not, derive a certain sense of pleasure when we get our "c...