Maine Home Connection

Is a Portland waterfront condo worth the premium? The honest answer: it depends on more than the view from the living room. At Maine Home Connection, we’ve walked enough of these buildings to know that “waterfront” is doing a lot of work in that listing description — and the difference between two condos both called “waterfront” can be the difference between the lifest...

Every Fourth of July, we repeat the same handful of stories — fireworks, founding fathers, a flag, a hot dog contest with a very old belt. This year, since it’s the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we decided to actually check a few of them against the historical record. Some hold up. Some don’t. One turns out to be a better story than the myth eve...

The Cumberland County housing market continues to show why it’s one of the strongest in Maine. While we’re seeing more homes come on the market, demand hasn’t disappeared—it has simply become a little more selective. The median sales price reached $595,000 in May, a 2.6% increase over last year, while remaining nearly unchanged from April. Home values continue to hold ...

A new analysis of home price data across all 50 states puts Maine at the top of the list. Between the first quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2026, Maine home prices rose 58% — the highest five-year appreciation rate in the country, tied with neighboring Vermont. Seven of the top ten states on that list are in the Northeast. Maine leads all of them. For a state ...

June in Maine has a particular quality. The screen doors go back on. The moose come down to the water at dusk. The days stretch so long that 8:45pm still looks like late afternoon. It’s the month the state earns everything it promises the rest of the year.

The June issue of The Monthly Connection is out — and it leans into all of it.