Maine Real Estate Blog | Coldwell Banker Plourde Real Estate

Most people who inherit a house never planned to sell one. Here is how to move through it steadily, and without pressure, when the time comes. Selling a home you inherited is a different experience from selling your own, and it is worth naming why. You did not choose the timing, the house often comes with a lifetime of belongings still [...]

Downsizing is rarely a real estate decision first. It is a life decision, and the house is only the last part of it. For most of the sellers we sit down with in this situation, the hardest part of downsizing has nothing to do with the market. It is standing in a kitchen here in Central Maine where thirty years of birthdays happened and [...]

The statewide affordability numbers look daunting. The picture in Central Maine, with the right programs behind you, is a good deal more hopeful. If you have been reading about the Maine housing market lately, you could be forgiven for deciding a first home is out of reach. The figure that gets quoted is a real one: the income it takes to [...]

A stalled listing is not a verdict on your home. It is information, and there are only a few real levers worth pulling. There is a particular quiet that settles in around the two-month mark of a listing that has not sold. The showings slow, the phone stops, and it is easy to start taking it personally, as though the market has judged [...]

It is the most common thing buyers are saying this summer. It is also worth doing the honest math before you let it decide for you. Almost every conversation we have with a buyer in Waterville, Winslow, or Oakland this summer arrives at the same sentence. We would love to buy, but we are going to wait for rates to come down first. It is an [...]