Northern New Hampshire Real Estate

Local guidance for selling, buying, and moving forward.

Northwoods Property Team combines local market knowledge, practical advice, strong negotiation, and technology-powered marketing for homes, land, cabins, multi-family property, and rural real estate across Coös County and northern Grafton County, with especially deep local experience in Groveton/Northumberland, Lancaster, Stark, and Stratford.

Northern NH photo: Shikhar Gupta / Unsplash
Selling in the North Country

A property-specific plan for a market that does not behave like southern New Hampshire.

Rural homes, land, older housing, multi-family property, and seasonal real estate are harder to price correctly when someone relies on generic assumptions. The strategy has to fit the property, the likely buyer, the financing, and the realities of the local market.

We help sellers make informed decisions about price, preparation, timing, presentation, negotiation, and risk without pretending every property needs a major renovation or every online estimate is accurate.

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The listing strategy

Price, presentation, and negotiation have to work together.

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Price It With Evidence

Relevant closed sales, active competition, condition, buyer demand, and property-specific features—not an automated estimate or a neighbor’s asking price.

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Negotiate the Whole Deal

Price matters, but so do financing, inspections, appraisal, contingencies, concessions, deadlines, and the likelihood the buyer actually closes.

Technology-powered property marketing

Use modern tools to make the property easier to understand and harder to overlook.

Technology supports the strategy. It does not replace local judgment, honest positioning, or direct communication. The right mix depends on the property and the buyers most likely to purchase it.

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Professional photography built around the property’s actual selling points.

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Guided property video that gives buyers context, not just a slideshow.

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Drone media when land, setting, access, water, or views matter.

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3D tours and floor plans that help remote buyers understand layout and scale.

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AI-assisted content workflows used for research, organization, consistency, and distribution—with human review.

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Digital distribution across MLS syndication, social media, YouTube, email, Google, and major real estate sites.

Buying in Northern New Hampshire

Find the property—and understand the financing fit, the systems, the land, and the risk.

Buyer representation should help you evaluate the property, understand the written buyer agreement, structure the offer, plan due diligence, and manage the transaction through closing.

Important 2024 practice change

Written buyer agreements are now part of the process before many home tours.

The agreement explains services and compensation. Its terms are negotiable. It is better to understand the relationship before the first serious showing than to deal with confusion after finding a property.

Learn what the agreement means →
Loan type and property condition

Not every property works with every loan.

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FHA, VA, and USDA often require a property to meet minimum condition and safety standards.

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Peeling paint, exposed safety issues, roof concerns, missing handrails, or broken systems can create financing obstacles.

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Conventional financing is usually more flexible, but condition still affects appraisal, insurability, and lender comfort.

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Meet our REALTORS®

Two local agents, broad regional coverage, and one team standard.

Nick and Kim both work throughout Coös County and northern Grafton County. Contact either agent, and the team can coordinate the best fit when needed.

Nick DeMers, REALTOR with Northwoods Property Team
Team Leader · Listing Specialist · REALTOR®

Nick DeMers

NH License #072827

Service area: Groveton/Northumberland, Lancaster, Stark, Stratford, Coös County, and northern Grafton County

Nick DeMers leads Northwoods Property Team at eXp Realty and works with sellers and buyers throughout Northern New Hampshire, with particular depth in Groveton/Northumberland, Lancaster, Stark, and Stratford. His approach combines property-specific pricing, strong negotiation, direct communication, and technology-powered marketing for homes, land, cabins, multi-family property, and rural real estate. With more than 200 career sales, Nick focuses on helping clients understand the full deal—from market position and presentation through inspections, appraisal, title, and closing.

Kim Crane, REALTOR with Northwoods Property Team
Buyer’s Agent · Listing Agent · REALTOR®

Kim Crane

NH License #076495

Service area: Jefferson, Lancaster, Pittsburg, Stewartstown, and surrounding Northern New Hampshire communities

Kim Crane works with sellers, buyers, relocators, and investors across Northern New Hampshire, with particular focus on Jefferson, Lancaster, Pittsburg, and Stewartstown. She especially enjoys single-family rural homes, cabins, and investment properties, helping sellers prepare for market without wasting money and helping buyers see the possibilities in properties that may need work. Her approach emphasizes listening, compassion, patience, and perseverance—particularly with first-time buyers and people relocating to the North Country.

Featured Northern NH markets

Local guides for the communities at the center of our work.

Each guide covers community context, property types, buyer and seller considerations, FAQs, local resources, and a framework for current market data.

Starter photo credits

Groveton/Northumberland image: Wikimedia Commons. Stark image: Wikimedia Commons. Stratford image: Wikimedia Commons. Lancaster image: Wikimedia Commons. Jefferson image: Northwoods Property Team supplied image. Whitefield image: Northwoods Property Team supplied image.

ATV & snowmobile property

Buying near the trails - or ready to sell the camp you bought for them?

Trail access can be a major reason someone buys in Pittsburg, Colebrook, Errol, Stratford, Berlin/Gorham, and the communities between them. Our real-estate guide explains what “direct access” can actually mean, what buyers should verify, and how recreation-property owners can market the features rider buyers care about.

Explore Trail-Access Real EstateCurrent maps and conditions stay with the state and local clubs. We link to those live sources rather than publishing trail maps that can become outdated.
Coös County market snapshot

2026 single-family residential and land sales through October 18.

Countywide figures provide a quick pulse on pricing, sales volume, and market pace, with a same-date comparison to January 1–October 18, 2025. Town-level snapshots will live on the individual community guides.

Explore Market Updates
January 1 through October 18, 2026Updated October 18, 2026
Single-family residential closed sales

Coös County

Closed sales331
Median sold price$244,900
Average sold price$277,108
Median days on market42 days
Total sold volume$91.72M
Sold price ÷ list price96.2%
Closed sales vs. 2025+2.2%
Median sold price vs. 2025−2.4%
Median DOM vs. 2025−14.3%

Same-date comparison: January 1 through October 18, 2025 — 324 closed sales, $251,000 median sold price, 49 days median days on market.

Land closed sales

Coös County

Closed sales90
Median sold price$105,000
Average sold price$147,434
Median days on market79 days
Total sold volume$13.27M
Sold price ÷ list price91.7%
Closed sales vs. 2025−15.1%
Median sold price vs. 2025+31.2%
Median DOM vs. 2025+146.9%

Same-date comparison: January 1 through October 18, 2025 — 106 closed sales, $80,000 median sold price, 32 days median days on market.

Source: MLS closed-sales data supplied by Northwoods Property Team. Residential figures are single-family only and exclude manufactured/mobile homes and condominiums. Year-over-year figures compare the same January 1–October 18 window. Countywide data provides context and is not a valuation of an individual property.

Estate & inherited property

Property decisions before, during, and after an estate transition.

Northwoods has built a Northern New Hampshire resource center covering planning ahead, helping parents, financial and health-care powers of attorney, trusts and wills, Transfer on Death Deeds, probate, inherited property, and the eventual keep-or-sell decision.

Northwoods is not your attorney, accountant, or financial planner. We explain the real-estate side, identify questions that need professional answers, connect the pieces, and take the lead when the property is ready for a real-estate plan.

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Questions buyers and sellers ask

Clear answers first. Deeper guidance when you need it.

The FAQ center is designed for people searching in Google or asking AI platforms about real estate decisions in Northern New Hampshire.

North Country real estate guidance

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Join Northwoods Property Team

Learn how to build a real estate business you can measure, improve, and scale.

Northwoods teaches agents how to create their own pipeline, build repeatable systems, strengthen client and transaction skills, and operate like business owners instead of depending on expensive purchased leads or waiting for business to appear.

See How Northwoods Works
Create your own pipelineLearn prospecting, database, referral, local-content, follow-up, and community-visibility systems that create business through channels you can keep building.
Build repeatable systemsTurn lead generation, follow-up, marketing, client communication, and transaction management into processes you can measure, improve, and scale.
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Get a local, property-specific opinion

Tell us what you own and what decision you are trying to make.

We will review the location, property type, timing, and available information, then coordinate the best next step with Nick or Kim based on the property, client needs, and availability.

  • No automated Zestimate-style answer
  • Local comparable-sale and competition review
  • Property condition, systems, land, and improvements considered
  • A practical next step, even when you are not ready to list

Submitting this form does not create an agency relationship or obligation to list. By submitting, you authorize Northwoods Property Team at eXp Realty to contact you about this inquiry.

Contact the team

Choose the REALTOR® you want to reach.

Not sure who to contact? Reach either agent, and the team can coordinate the best fit when needed.

Team Leader · Listing Specialist · REALTOR®

Nick DeMers

NH License #072827
Nick DeMers
Buyer’s Agent · Listing Agent · REALTOR®

Kim Crane

NH License #076495
Kim Crane