Clients & Projects

Fiduciary Trust Company (Boston, MA)

• Established market values for and managed the disposition of a portfolio of 65 properties throughout the U.S. and Quebec, Canada.

ALI Financing (London, England)

• Appraisal of motion picture studio on 560 acres, Oneida County, Wisconsin

Bank of Boston (formerly)

• Appraisal of 345-acre poultry farm in Westminster, Massachusetts

Bank of New England (formerly)

• Timber inventory and appraisal on 3,500-acre tract in New Hampshire Lakes Region.

Bessemer Trust, N.A.

• Appraisal of 1,100-acre plantation, Fredericksburg, Virginia; a 5,000± acre property on the eastern shore of Maryland; and 500-acre citrus and avocado orchards in Ojai, California.
• Disposition planning for 150-acre property, Louisville, Kentucky.

Chemical Bank (formerly)

• Appraisal of 1,800 acres, Hardyston, New Jersey.

Fleet Bank (formerly)

• Commercial, industrial and forestland appraisals throughout the northeast and New York.

Merrill Lynch Capital Markets

• Analysis of inventory data and related financials on timberlands of Plum Creek Timber Company, 1,500,000 acres in Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho.

Northern Trust

• Appraisal of estate in Beverly, Massachusetts.
• Disposition of estate in Essex, Massachusetts.

OnBank

• Appraisal of 168-acre limestone quarry - Madison, New York.

UBS Resource Investments

• Acquisition, Appraisal and ongoing Management Services on 29,000 acres of prime white pine timberlands in southwestern Maine.

ARVIDA (Arthur Vining Davis Family)

• Consulting and Marketing services on 600+ acres, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

(Confidential)

• Analysis and valuation of 4,500+ acre property in Todd, North Carolina owned by a family corporation to determine the value of a potential conservation restriction to be sold to The Nature Conservancy.

Bear Lake Reserve

• Market and feasibility analysis to assess proposed real estate development program for ongoing recreational/resort project in western North Carolina. The project includes 2,100 acres and the potential for over 700 residential units.

Childs Family

• Evaluation of prospective conservation restriction on 5,700± acres in Norfolk and Canaan, Connecticut.

Cobham Lands

• Conservation planning, ongoing forest management and disposition services for 15,000 acres, Adirondacks, New York.

Coburn Lands Trust

• Consulting, Inventory and Marketing Services for 43,000 acres, Maine.

Corning Family Trust

• Advisory Services, 360 acres, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Coe-Verbica Heirs

• Analysis of common/undivided interest, Lake Umbagog area, Maine.

Coffin Estate

• Analysis of 350 acres, Nantucket, Massachusetts and disposition of 230± acres of this property which was developed into the Nantucket Golf Club.

Dead River Corporation

• Analysis and Sale of 9,000 acres, Maine. Marketing Analysis and Disposition Services for 43,000 acres, 3 sawmills, and lumber brokerage operation in New Brunswick.

(Confidential)

• Land planning and appraisal of 500+ acres, Aquinnah, Martha's Vineyard.

Glatfelter Pulp Wood Company

• Appraisal of 21 parcels in Spotsylvania, Culpeper, Fauquier, Buckingham, Chesterfield, Fluvanna and Orange Counties, Virginia. Glatfelter has also retained LandVest to represent them in the sale of these parcels, together with the sale of 24,500 acres (in 102 Parcels) throughout Pennsylvania.

(Confidential)

• Evaluation of 330± acres of ocean front land on Vinalhaven Island, Maine.

Hodge Family

• Land planning, valuation and marketing study on 24 acre ocean front property, Block Island, Rhode Island.

A. D. Makepeace Corporation

• Consulting and Valuation Services on 10,000 acres, southeastern Massachusetts.

General George Patton II Family

• Conservation Planning and Valuation Services on 300+ acres, eastern Massachusetts.

Pingree Forest Partnership

• Keith Ross (formerly of New England Forestry Foundation, now of LandVest) conceived and negotiated an Option to Purchase a conservation easement on 762,162 acres of forest land in western and northern Maine. LandVest provided appraisal services to determine the value of the easement.

Quarterpath at Williamsburg

• Ongoing market analysis of the residential components of this major mixed-use project in a destination community (Williamsburg, Virginia). The project plan includes over 1,000 residential units in a variety of configurations with a New Urbanist design.

Sedgwick Family Trust

• Appraisal of 3,500 acre ranch, Santa Ynez County, California.

Sisters Realty North (Romany Family)

• Market Analysis and Court Testimony on 8,000 acres, Adirondacks, New York.

(Confidential)

• Land planning, valuation and marketing study on 200± acre ocean front property, Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts.

St. Lucia Estates

• Evaluation of 440 acres of ocean front land on St. Lucia, BWI.

Webster Land Corporation

• Consulting and Valuation Services on 3,500+ acres, southern New Hampshire.

(Confidential)

• Valuation of private real estate portfolio of multiple properties throughout the U.S., Europe and New Zealand, including ranches in Colorado and New Mexico, estate properties in New York and Connecticut, a co-op apartment in New York City, an estate property in South Carolina, estates in England and Scotland, ski properties in France, and a ranch in New Zealand.

(Confidential)

• Feasibility study of family held property, Nicholasville, Kentucky.

(Confidential)

• Feasibility study and disposition of 700± acre farm in Loudon County, Virginia.

(Confidential)

• Appraisal of 90,000 acres of forest land in the Adirondacks of New York.

(Confidential)

• Analysis of Inventory, Operating Plans, and Opinion of Value on nearly 1,000,000 acres - location confidential.

(Confidential)

• Feasibility study and disposition of 500± acre coastal property, Eastern Shore, Maryland.

(Confidential)

• Analysis of 500  acre investment property, Nassau, Bahamas.

(Confidential)

• Analysis of 22,000 acre ranch for mineral rights and possible conservation easement, southern Colorado.

(Confidential)

• Land planning, general consulting and valuation services, multiple waterfront estate properties, Southampton/eastern Long Island, New York.

(Confidential)

• Land planning and appraisal for 200± acre property, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

(Confidential)

• Assembled, via multiple transactions, a 16,000 acre ownership surrounding a major, high quality Maine lake for family compound.

(Confidential)

• Conservation Advisory Services for 300 acres of family lands in Damriscotta and Appleton, Maine.

(Confidential)

• Conservation Advisory Services for 200 acres of family lands in Georgetown, Maine.

(Confidential)

• Conservation Advisory Service for 1,400 acres of family lands in Sandisfield, Massachusetts.

GE Capital

• Valuation, Advisory and Acquisition Services, Northeast.

Harnsworth Pension Trust, London, England

• Acquisition/Consulting Services on 10,000 acres, Eastern North Carolina. Acquisition and Forest Management Services on 10,000 acres in Vermont.

Harvard University

• Conservation Advisory Service to negotiate acquisition and funding for inholding at Harvard Forest in Phillipston, Massachusetts.
• Analysis of 60+ acre Case Estates property in Weston, MA donated to Harvard to establish market value, followed by marketing of property to Town and developers.

Medical-Clerical Pension Trust, London, England

• Acquisition Services and Forest Management on 8,000 acres, New York and Vermont.

Plessey Pension Trust, London, England

• Forest Management of 25,000 acres in Kentucky, 2,000 acres in Tennessee, 37,000 acres in New York, 2,000 acres in Vermont, 5,000 acres in Maine.

Yale University

• Consulting Services on 2,000 acres, New Hampshire, on 300± acres, New Haven, Connecticut, and on 770 acres in central Connecticut.
• Valuation of the 7,500+ acre Yale Meyer Forest, CT.

American Ski Company-Killington Resort, Vermont

• Market research and feasibility assessment to assist in defining the first two projects in the planned Killington Village.

Tamarack Resort Group, Idaho

• Market research and development of an overall real estate development program for a new mountain resort, including an assessment of total resort size and the real estate products that will meet the market needs of resort visitors.

Town of Telluride, Colorado

• Real estate market assessment of Valley Floor property to determine its highest and best use as part of a property appraisal and development process.

The Canyons Resort, Utah

• Market analysis of supply and demand factors affecting development in the village and projection of real estate sales under several scenarios.

Booz Allen Hamilton

• Advisory Service on natural assets appraisal for 450,000 acre Eglin Air Force Base in Florida panhandle.
• Advisory Service on natural assets appraisal for Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska.

Massachusetts National Guard

• Valuation of 60+ acres of improved and vacant land at a closed army base in Ayer, Massachusetts.

City of Newton, Massachusetts

• Appraisal of 40 acres of prime development land targeted by City for conservation and limited, non-profit housing development.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Appraisal of 80+ properties throughout New England.

Land for Maine’s Future Program

• Appraisal of fee and conservation easement rights on 3,400± acres in Washington County, Maine, with nearly 50 miles of frontage along Spednic Lake and the St. Croix River.

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

• Various appraisals of rural lands throughout Massachusetts.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

• Appraisal of conservation easements on several forestland tracts in Adirondack region of New York (30,000 - 105,000± acres).

United States Fisheries and Wildlife

• Valuation of land throughout the northeast for negotiation of habitat loss resulting from contaminated existing habitat.

State of Maine Department of Parks and Lands

• Advisory Services negotiating land swap in northern Maine with major timberland Company.

Green Mountain Development Group, Vermont

• Comprehensive analysis of the market feasibility of an affordable, congregate housing project.

Housing Vermont, Vermont

• Analysis to assess the market-based feasibility of a downtown project oriented toward younger households.

Richard Dybvig-Architect, Vermont

• Market analysis for a project incorporating the Low Income Housing Tax Credits and services oriented toward the elderly.

Conservation Law Foundation Ventures

• Appraisal and Advisory Services for 1800 acre property in Western Mass.

Forest Society of Maine

• Appraisal of fee and conservation easement rights on 330,000± acres in Somerset County, Maine.

Lyme Timber Company Conservation Advisory Services

• Appraisal of fee and conservation easement rights on 4,500± acre family held property, Todd, North Carolina.

Nantucket Conservation Foundation

• Land planning and valuation analysis of 265± acres on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.

The Nature Conservancy

• Appraisal of Whitney Park - 54,000± acres of forest and lake front land in Adirondack Park, New York.
• Land planning and valuation study of Hearst Ranch, San Simeon, California (84,000± acres with The Conservation Fund).
• Appraisal of fee and conservation easement rights - 25,000± acres - Machias River Corridor, Washington County, Maine.

New England Forestry Foundation

• Appraisal of conservation easement on 750,000± acres of forest and recreation land located in northern and western Maine (Pingree lands).
• Appraisal of conservation easement on 300,000± acres in Washington County, Maine.
• Appraisal of fee and conservation easement rights on 250,000± acres in Aroostook and Piscataquis Counties, Maine.
• Advisory services on 3,000± acre family held property near Thomasville, Georgia in excess of $14 million.
• Advisory services drafting and negotiating conservation easements on 8,000± acre family held property near Thomasville, Georgia.
• Advisory service to examine the New Market Tax Credit as a method for acquisition of Conservation Easements and fee interest in Maine.

Old Sturbridge Village

• Analysis and valuation of 1,000+ acre property in Sturbridge, MA owned by OSV as part of master planning and endowment planning process. Initial analytic phase was followed by disposition phase in which LandVest orchestrated the sale of 825+ acres to the Town of Sturbridge and the State Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife for $3,800,000. This solution was considered a win/win for OSV, the town, and the State.

Outward Bound, Inc.

• Analysis and valuation of development rights on 170± acre Thompson Island, Boston, MA for Outward Bound, Inc. and Trust for Public Land. TPL and the State of Massachusetts subsequently purchased the development rights on the entire island, providing funds for Outward Bound to continue its operation.

Trust for Public Land

• Appraisal of 2,300± acres of forested development land surrounding Sunday River Ski Resort - Newry, Maine.
• Valuation of proposed conservation and historic preservation easements for Trust for Public Land, 1,600-plus acres, including Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village improvements in southern Maine. Conservation and historic preservation easements were eventually sold to two separate non-profits for over $3,000,000.

Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust

• Appraisal of fee and conservation easement rights on 1,050 acres on Rangeley Lake. Timberland with waterfront amenity. Advisory Services on acquisition of local lands of conservation interest.