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Nantucket voters approve groundbreaking zoning bylaws
As Martha’s Vineyard searches for answers to an increasingly dire housing shortage, it could do well to look 35 miles to the east, where Nantucket voters approved sweeping changes in zoning bylaws at a...
View ArticleReal estate transactions: December 14 – 18
Chilmark Dec. 17, Paula H. Noe, trustee of Paula H. Noe Qualified Personal Residence Trust for Jason Sco and the Paula H. Noe Qualified Personal Residence Trust for David Isa and the Paula H. Noe...
View ArticleReal Estate Transactions: December 21 – 25, 2015
Edgartown Dec. 21, Four Flemmings LLC sold 23, 27 and 29 Kitts Field Circle to Katama Acquisitions LLC for $1,580,000. Dec. 23, Jess Thompson Hiller 3rd, trustee of Hiller Irrevocable Trust, sold 20...
View ArticleReal Estate Transactions: December 28, 2015 to January 1, 2016
Edgartown Dec. 30, Evelyn F. Macomber sold 49 Nineteenth St. North to Jennifer M. Rumbough for $645,000. Dec. 30, Carl G. Gilmore, trustee of the Carl & Elizabeth Gilmore Trust, sold 5 Maqua Way to...
View ArticleReal Estate Transactions: January 4-8, 2016
Chilmark Jan. 6, Fairlawn LP sold 6 Eddy Farm Rd. to Paul A. Slavin and Susan D. Waitzkin for $1,615,000. Edgartown Jan. 4, Gloria Drongoski, Cynthia Drongoski Strouse (f/k/a Cynthia Drongoski), and...
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Southern Woodlands development inches closer to permit finish line
A sharply divided Martha’s Vineyard Commission (MVC) voted 7-5 not to hold a public hearing to consider modifications the new owners of the Southern Woodlands property — a 26-lot, never realized...
View ArticleREAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS: Oct. 12 – 16, 2015
Chilmark Oct. 15, Bradford P. White sold 10 Harbor Hill Rd. to Frederick N. Khedouri for $801,000. Oct. 16, Barbara A. Crosby and Erik Bruun, trustees of the Barbara A. Crosby Chilmark Qualified...
View ArticleChilmark bylaw change aims to protect historic houses
In an effort to preserve and protect historic houses, the Chilmark planning board is crafting a proposed amendment to the so-called “big house” bylaw that would allow property owners to exempt historic...
View ArticleReal Estate Transactions: October 19 – 23, 2015
Aquinnah Oct. 22, Patricia A. Burgess sold 8 Jeffers Way to Ryan and Amy Crowley for $750,000. Chilmark Oct. 23, Joanne S. Hansen and Judith D. Graham sold 5 Lovey’s Cove Rd. to Lanny A. and Nancy...
View ArticleReal Estate Transactions: January 11 – 15, 2016
Chilmark Jan. 11, Linda J. Wank, successor Personal Representative of the estate of Mary Elizabeth Cronkite, sold 2 Boulders End to Linda J. Wank, trustee under the will of Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.,...
View ArticleMartha’s Vineyard Hospital buys Admiral Benbow Inn
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has purchased the Admiral Benbow Inn, a seven-room bed and breakfast on New York Avenue in Oak Bluffs, for $1.375 million. The Victorian-style inn will be used for...
View ArticleIHT receives $390,000 grant for Water Street affordable apartments
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston has awarded the Island Housing Trust a $390,000 grant through the Edgartown National Bank for the construction of six new energy-efficient rental apartments in...
View ArticleOak Bluffs Planning Board signs off on Southern Woodlands permit
In a decision with far reaching consequences for the town of Oak Bluffs, the Oak Bluffs Planning Board (OBPB) unanimously approved the amendments to the 2004 special permit for the Southern Woodlands...
View ArticleWater Street affordable housing set to be erected Friday
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but apparently six affordable apartments in Tisbury can be, if all goes according to plan this Friday. Construction is scheduled to begin at 8:30 am, Friday morning, on the...
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Oak Bluffs reaps $1.15 million with close of Southern Woodlands deal
Over a decade in the making, the sale of the Southern Woodlands property in Oak Bluffs is finally complete ten months after Paul Adamson, a Boston-area developer and Edgartown seasonal homeowner...
View ArticleIHT will describe newest development in West Tisbury
West Tisbury has selected the Island Housing Trust to develop three duplex clusters consisting of nine rental apartments at 565 Edgartown Road on town property behind the fire station. In an effort to...
View ArticleBusiness Brief: Dukes Academy passes the real estate school torch
Dukes Academy, long the only real estate school on the Vineyard, has announced the sale of its Classroom Education Division to Erik Hammarlund, who operates Academy of MV. According to a press release,...
View ArticleBusiness Brief: John F. Newsom joins Dockside Real Estate
John F. Newsom of Oak Bluffs has joined Dockside Real Estate. According to a press release, Mr. Newsom has been a summer resident of Martha’s Vineyard since 1947. He moved to the Island full-time in...
View ArticleLampost looks to serve up employee housing on Circuit Avenue
Looking to the past to handle a contemporary problem, the owners of the Lampost, the venerable nightclub, bar, and restaurant on Circuit Avenue, originally built as a four-story hotel in the Victorian...
View ArticleEdgartown will sell three half-acre lots in housing lottery
In what is described as a “community housing opportunity,” Edgartown plans to sell three buildable half-acre lots of town-owned land for $75,000 to a pool of qualified applicants who will be chosen by...
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