Sweet Pond Eco-Community for Sale
- Listing Price: $790,000
- Acreage: 83 Acres
- Location: 413 Sweet Pond Road, Guilford, Vermont
- Owner Financing Available
Co-Housing in Southern Vermont ready for a Community:
Beautiful 83 acres of woods, pond, apple orchard, and fields. Includes all the house plans, legal and incorporation, planning, architectural designs, engineering, septic approval, and our work over the past several years. The site is currently approved for 9 houses. All environmental regulations are met with this project. We are offering to sell the entire project, with the land, the subdivision, all the work that a co housing community has to do to get started has been done. This saves about 3 to 5 years of time for the average cohousing community.
12.5 Acres for Sale in Guilford Vermont
- Listing Price: $225,000
- Acreage: 12.5 Acres
- Location: Sweet Pond Road, Guilford, Vermont
- Owner Financing Available
12.5 acres of beautiful, open pastures in Guilford, Vermont. Taxes are very low. Approximately a quarter mile off the road in a secluded location. Excellent sighting for solar, high and clear enough for wind power and a wonderful South West visibility for 20 miles. As you drive up property on the right is a seasonal pond. The pond and marsh is approximately 8 acres with all kinds of wildlife and birds. The parcel itself is an organic fields that has not been farmed in more than a decade. There are no building codes in Guilford, you can build a structure as fancy or plain as you like. Next to this lovely 12.5 acres is an 87 acre parcel of woods that is under land management. With trails walk hike or ski. Owner financing available for a suitable buyer.
For those of you who are not from Southern Vermont, Guilford is next door to Brattleboro, Vt. Brattleboro has plenty of arts, entertainment, shopping, a terrific organic co-op, a small regional hospital, a Montessori school, Circus School, Youth Theater, and a marvelous arts community. Skiing and a 4 season sports paradise. Brattleboro has high taxes, but Guilford with its rural nature has a fraction of the taxes. Have the best of both worlds – rural community next door to the best arts community in all of New England.
Welcome to Sweet Pond Eco Community
Sweet Pond is 100 beautiful acres of hillsides and woods in southeastern Vermont. Sweet Pond Eco Community will be an intentional community of nine homes. Nine environmentally friendly green homes will be clustered in an apple orchard overlooking a beaver pond. Sweet Pond is to be organized as a common interest ownership community based on the principals of cohousing. Purchasing a unit entitles the owner to a house, membership in the community, and ownership of an equal undifferentiated share of approximately 83 acres of land to be owned by the community. The homes will share a common driveway, septic system, well, a large community garden, beaver pond, and over 50 acres of preserved woodland.