The long-shuttered Hamilton Hill mansion is now open for tours during the 2023 Bar Harbor Designer Showhouse
ISLANDER PHOTO BY PIPER CURTIN

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BAR HARBOR — Driving up winding Hamilton Hill Way, on the crest of a grassy hill, a mansion and the expanse of the Atlantic come into view. Inside the mansion, carved statues of an [...]

Home staging is an art as much as a skill. The right home staging inspires higher selling prices, according to the National Association of Realtors; as much as $40,000 over list, in recent survey results.

Not only that, but well-staged homes in 2021 sold an average of nine days faster than homes that weren’t staged.

At Swan Agency, we love helping our clients make more money, faster. That’s why we’ve put together this home staging checklist to use when [...]

 

"A New Jersey woman now lives alone part of the year on a remote island in Maine that Stephen King called ‘a novel here, just waiting to be written.

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July 28, 2023

“Duck Ledges Island,” the listing read, “offered in its entirety.”

The accompanying photos showed a scene of stark

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