I’ve got to admit that real estate agents tend to try and paint the properties they have for sale in the best possible light when they describe them. Well, most agents anyway. There are still plain vanilla descriptions such as “2 Bedroom, 2 bathroom house with 1,512 Sq ft of living space on a 3.62 acre lot. Large attached garage with storage space above it. Land is partially wooded. Basement is partially finished.”...

May was a great month for waterfront sales on Winnipesaukee with twelve transactions at an average price of $638,231. None of the sales exceeded $1 million, but three were in the $900,000 range. Last May there were only four sales on the big lake but the average sales price did come in higher at $1.053 million. To me, it is just as good to see a lot of properties selling on the...