Zara Norman

6 days ago | bangordailynews.com | Zara Norman

HousingThis section of the BDN aims to help readers understand Maine’s housing crisis, the volatile real estate market and the public policy behind them. Read more Housing coverage here. Maine’s real estate market is emerging from the winter chill, so we took a look around the state to find homes with pools. Here are four at polar price points, including two luxury offerings from York County and two on the more affordable end in central Maine.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Zara Norman

HousingThis section of the BDN aims to help readers understand Maine’s housing crisis, the volatile real estate market and the public policy behind them. Read more Housing coverage here. Rumors of a super-wealthy landowner are circulating after a newcomer closed a prime piece of hiking land along Moosehead Lake and began building a large waterfront home. “It’s what everyone is wondering,” said Joe Babbitt, the Select Board chair in Beaver Cove, a town of just over 130 people.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Zara Norman

HousingThis section of the BDN aims to help readers understand Maine’s housing crisis, the volatile real estate market and the public policy behind them. Read more Housing coverage here. Rumors of a super-wealthy landowner are circulating after a newcomer closed a prime piece of hiking land along Moosehead Lake and began building a large waterfront home. “It’s what everyone is wondering,” said Joe Babbitt, the Select Board chair in Beaver Cove, a town of just over 130 people.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Zara Norman

A custom-built property that once served as a model home for a bankrupted builder is up for sale in Clinton. Priced at just under $600,000, the 6-bedroom, 3-bathroom home is on a wooded 15.5-acre lot just off the I-95. It was built in 1996 by a custom home building company that used the property both as its headquarters and a model home that prospective clients could tour, according to listing agent Lindsey Brann.

1 week ago | wgme.com | Zara Norman

The students in Nicole DiGeronimo’s first-time homebuyer classes are increasingly older with a little more money saved up. They still can’t buy a home in Maine. “These are people that probably never anticipated it would be so difficult to purchase a home,” DiGeronimo, who directs Avesta Housing’s homeownership center, said.