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I'm Dan, a real estate and new construction advisor based in Portsmouth, NH. I cover the NH Seacoast and Southern Maine, including most of Strafford, Rockingham, and York Counties. I obsess over data, and every Monday I publish my field notes on what the market actually did last week. Not what it feels like it did. What the data actually says it did.
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The Seacoast isn't one market.
It behaves differently at $600k than it does at $1.2M, differently in Eliot than in York, differently in New Hampshire than in Maine. Every week I track five price bands and a few dozen towns, so you can see which market you're actually in, and build your plan around that one instead of the one the headlines describe.
Every issue tracks five price bands, from under $500k to $1.3M and up. In the same week they can move at different speeds and hand leverage to different sides. The regional average describes none of them.
Eliot's median time to contract has held around six days most of this season. Portsmouth, just across the river and the corridor's high-volume anchor, has taken twelve to twenty days over the same stretch, even as it tightens. Same river, different pace.
Market Pulse ships every Monday, in loud weeks and quiet ones. The latest issue always breaks the current numbers out by price band and by town, so you can find where you actually stand.
I break these bands and towns down every week so you know what they mean for your specific move, not just the average.
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Hi, I'm Dan.
I spent 20 years in creative and video work, now I'm in real estate, licensed to sell properties in New Hampshire and Maine and brokered by Portside Real Estate Group in Portsmouth. I read MLS data the way some people read box scores, and I publish what I find because this market makes a lot more sense when someone shows their work instead of relying on hyperbole and conjecture to win your business.
If you want an agent who leads with numbers instead of headline urgency, we'll probably get along.
What's active right now.
A live look at what's for sale and under contract across the towns I cover, from my brokerage.
Where I work
Forty-nine towns, roughly thirty miles around Portsmouth, in three rings. That's where I know the inventory and the pace well enough to be useful. I travel beyond it for clients who are a good fit, so ask anyway.
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