Housing Market Slowdown

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Originally Posted by FlyingScot

You have that ALMOST right... They need to both be on Winni so that you can have a place to build great memories with your family, and then an island place to get to alone when you need a break from creating those memories

Lake Winnipesaukee property values are presently out of sight; hence the topic of "Market Softening".

Ascendant McMansions could still make memories, but those memories are changing. Money pouring in has altered "On Golden Pond" to the point that noisy lawn devices, dock lights, amplified boater "music", ocean-racers, wake-making boats, sand bar crowding, dropping water quality, shoreline erosion, the downing of mature trees--especially along shorelines, night skies are dark no longer, and crowding in general affects memories. (The fishing economy isn't what it used to be).

Certainly affecting my memories, when a speedy five horsepower 10-foot rowboat got me to the nearest store for fresh dairy products, bread, and postage stamps. An immense condominium has replaced the docks where I could buy six gallons of "white" gasoline. On occasion, the same trip was made by paddling a canoe. Seen a canoe lately?



Memories can still be built on a .08-acre island, where existing solutions to refrigeration and septic system are in place. Teens can be put to work re-arranging an island's rocky shoreline, just as I did seventy years ago. (And still do).

The Turtle Island property is a genuine "camp", wherein the Lakes Region is losing camps to "Progress". In recent decades, walking the shoreline's pine needle trails (a half-mile either way) to the neighbors has been affected by "landscaping".

Originally Posted by Biggd

Turtle Island and the log home across from me on Wakewaun are both under agreement. I guess people are still buying.

One week, huh?



I did title my post with "Buy This".