$430,000
Median Sales Price
June 2026
-2.1% year over year
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Vermont Agent Matching
Find an LGBTQ-Affirming Real Estate Agent in Vermont
Buying, selling, or relocating in Vermont? Pride Real Estate Connections can connect you with a vetted LGBTQ+-affirming real estate professional who serves the Vermont market where you need help.
Whether you searched for an LGBTQ Realtor in Vermont, a gay-friendly real estate agent, or simply an experienced professional who will respect you, your relationships, and your priorities, the goal is the same: a strong real estate fit without having to wonder how you'll be treated.
Pride Real Estate Connections facilitates introductions to independent real estate professionals. You're never obligated to work with the first agent you're matched with.
Vermont Real Estate Guide
Understand the Vermont Market
Vermont Real Estate Market: What Buyers and Sellers Should Know
Vermont's housing market should be evaluated at both the statewide and local level. Statewide data can reveal the direction of inventory and sales, but a Burlington condo, a Montpelier single-family home, and a rural property can face very different competition.
Vermont REALTORS® reported the following for single-family homes and condos in June 2026: a $430,000 median sales price, 725 closed sales, 1,303 new listings, and 2,661 active listings. The median sales price was down 2.1% from June 2025, while closed sales increased 10.4%, new listings increased 7.4%, and active inventory increased 16.9%.
For buyers, rising statewide inventory can mean more properties to compare, but it does not guarantee negotiating leverage on a specific home. Location, condition, property type, price band, and competing offers still matter.
For sellers, the 16.9% year-over-year increase in active inventory means buyers have more listings competing for their attention than they did a year earlier. That makes accurate local pricing, condition, photography, positioning, and the first weeks of a listing especially important.
725
Closed Sales
June 2026
+10.4% year over year
1,303
New Listings
June 2026
+7.4% year over year
2,661
Active Inventory
June 2026
+16.9% year over year
Major Real Estate Markets in Vermont
Vermont is not one uniform real estate market. Compare locations using objective factors such as housing type, price, inventory, commute requirements, property condition, utilities, flood exposure, taxes, and access to the services important to you rather than relying on unsupported labels about a community.
Burlington
If your search centers on Burlington, ask for an agent with recent experience in the specific property type and price range you're considering. A condo, a single-family home, and a property outside the city can involve different comparable sales, association obligations, taxes, utilities, and commuting considerations.
Winooski
For a Winooski purchase or sale, look for local comparable-sale knowledge and an agent who can explain how current competition differs from the broader Vermont numbers. Review property condition, condominium or association documents where relevant, taxes, parking, utilities, and the total ownership cost.
Montpelier
When considering Montpelier, include property-specific flood and water due diligence alongside pricing, inspection, financing, and title review. A map or statewide statistic is a starting point, not a substitute for evaluating the address, structure, drainage, insurance, and transaction documents.
Brattleboro
For Brattleboro and the surrounding market, ask for a professional with recent experience evaluating properties and transactions in that part of southern Vermont. Compare current inventory, property type, heating system, utilities, condition, commute needs, and likely future resale considerations.
Buying & Moving in Vermont
Buying a Home in Vermont
A strong Vermont home search starts before the first showing. Establish your realistic payment and cash-to-close range, obtain financing guidance early, and decide which property and location variables are negotiable.
Pride REC's Home-Buying Resource Center can help you organize the broader process. You can also use the Home Affordability Calculator and Down Payment Calculator as planning tools before comparing individual properties.
Featured program
VHFA ASSIST
The Vermont Housing Finance Agency currently publishes ASSIST as assistance of up to $10,000 for eligible down payment and closing costs. It is a 0% deferred loan with no monthly payments, not a grant, and is generally repaid when the home is sold, refinanced, or the mortgage is paid off.
ASSIST is subject to current VHFA program, borrower, property, income, purchase-price, and first-mortgage requirements. Verify the current terms with VHFA and a participating lender before including the assistance in your purchase budget.
- Potential assistance
- Up to $10,000
- Interest
- 0% deferred loan
- Monthly payments
- No monthly payments while deferred
- Repayment
- Generally due at sale, refinance, or mortgage payoff
First Generation Homebuyer Program
VHFA currently publishes the First Generation Homebuyer Program as a $15,000 grant with no repayment for an eligible household. It has separate first-generation, first-time-buyer, asset, and mortgage-program requirements, and grant availability is first-come, first-served while funding lasts.
A grant is not the same product as the deferred ASSIST loan. Confirm the current definition of first generation, application requirements, funding status, and eligible mortgage pairing directly with VHFA and a participating lender.
- Potential grant
- $15,000
- Repayment
- No repayment under current program description
- Availability
- First-come, first-served while funding lasts
- Requirements
- First-generation, first-time-buyer, asset, and mortgage rules apply
VHFA Mortgage Programs and Limits
VHFA's current homebuyer offerings include MOVE, MOVE MCC, and ADVANTAGE, subject to program-specific eligibility requirements. Published income and purchase-price limits were updated July 1, 2026 and vary by program and, for some programs, by county.
Rates, limits, funding, and underwriting requirements can change. Use the current VHFA materials and a participating lender to determine which program, if any, fits your circumstances.
VHFA funding, rates, income and purchase-price limits, program availability, and borrower requirements can change. Confirm current terms directly with VHFA and a participating lender before relying on ASSIST, the First Generation grant, or another program benefit.
Vermont Seller Resources
Selling a Home in Vermont
Selling in Vermont requires more than applying a statewide average to your property. In June 2026, Vermont had more active inventory and more new listings than one year earlier, even as closed sales increased. That combination means sellers should pay close attention to the homes competing for the same buyer—not just last year's sale prices.
A Vermont listing strategy should identify which recent sales are genuinely comparable, what competing homes are active or pending right now, whether the property's condition justifies its position within that set, and whether inspection, water, drainage, flood, utility, septic, well, heating-system, title, or other property issues should be addressed or documented before launch.
Overpricing can be especially costly when inventory is expanding because buyers can compare a listing against a larger group of alternatives. The better approach is to price from current local evidence, monitor showing and offer activity, and adjust based on market response rather than relying on a statewide headline.
When offers arrive, compare financing, contingencies, concessions, timing, inspection exposure, and the likelihood of reaching closing—not only the headline price. Vermont's property transfer tax and other transaction expenses should also be included when estimating net proceeds.
Ownership costs
Vermont Homeownership Costs and Property Due Diligence
Vermont buyers and sellers should account for transaction taxes, property-tax rules, flood and river-corridor information, insurance, utilities, heating, drainage, and property-specific inspection findings rather than relying only on the purchase price.
Check Flood-Hazard and River-Corridor Information
Vermont Agency of Natural Resources mapping includes National Flood Insurance Program information, flood-hazard mapping, and river-corridor layers. Before making a final property decision, review the address using the state's Flood Ready mapping resources.
Then investigate prior water intrusion, drainage, basement conditions, insurance availability, lender requirements, and appropriate mitigation. A map is a starting point, not a substitute for inspections, insurance guidance, or other professional due diligence.
Understand Vermont Homestead Property-Tax Rules
Vermont's current homestead property-tax credit is income-sensitive. The statute calculates eligibility and credit using factors including household income and homestead property-tax liability.
The statute currently displays one framework effective until a specified contingency is met and a separate framework identified for July 1, 2028 if that contingency is met. Do not treat the future framework as today's rule. Verify the applicable filing-year requirements before making a tax decision.
Plan for Vermont Property Transfer Tax
Vermont imposes a property transfer tax on covered transfers. Under current law, the transferee is generally liable unless the parties agree otherwise, and the tax treatment differs depending on factors such as whether the property will be the buyer's principal residence. Vermont also imposes a clean-water surcharge with specified exceptions.
Your lender, closing professional, or attorney can calculate the transaction-specific amount before closing. Include the transfer tax and other settlement expenses when estimating cash to close or expected net proceeds.
Estimate Your Vermont Closing Costs
Get a clearer starting point for lender, title, prepaid and transaction expenses before making an offer.
Relocation guide
Moving to Vermont
Relocation decisions work best when you define the practical requirements first and compare communities against the same objective criteria. An experienced local real estate agent should help you research those factors without steering you toward or away from a community based on protected characteristics or assumptions about the people who live there.
Vermont properties can also differ materially in utilities, heating, drainage, flood exposure, internet access, and maintenance needs. Those property-level questions belong in the search and due-diligence plan before you narrow the decision to a particular home.
- Purchase budget and ongoing ownership costs
- Commute or remote-work needs
- Single-family, condo, multi-unit, land, or other property preferences
- Municipal versus property-specific utility considerations
- Heating system and estimated operating costs
- Flood, drainage, and river-corridor due diligence
- Inspection priorities and property condition
- Internet, cellular, services, and travel-time requirements
Choosing the Right Real Estate Support
How to Choose an LGBTQ-Affirming Realtor in Vermont
Affirming service should be paired with strong real estate competence. Before choosing an agent, ask how recently they have handled transactions in your target Vermont market, what property types they work with most often, how they develop pricing or offer recommendations, and how they communicate with every person involved in a purchase or sale.
Verify Through Vermont OPR
Use the Office of Professional Regulation's public lookup to check profession, license status, and key dates.
Check Local Experience
Ask about recent transactions in your target Vermont market, price range, property type, and transaction type.
Discuss Due Diligence
Ask how the agent approaches inspections, flood and river-corridor information, utilities, heating, and other property-specific questions.
Expect Respectful Communication
Your agent should include every decision-maker, respect relationships and names, and communicate without assumptions.
Confirm the Working Fit
Discuss response times, offer strategy, representation, privacy, and the communication plan before choosing to work together.
Useful interview questions include how many recent transactions the agent has handled in your part of Vermont or with your property type, how they distinguish statewide market headlines from the conditions affecting a specific property, how they approach inspections and flood information, how they include and respect every buyer, seller, and partner involved in communication and decision-making, and what their communication plan is once you are under contract.
You can independently verify a Vermont professional through the state's Office of Professional Regulation Find a Professional system. The public lookup provides license-status information and notes that not all disciplinary information is necessarily linked directly to license-search results.
If a match does not feel right, you should be comfortable choosing someone else. Pride Real Estate Connections can make the introduction, but the professionals operate independently and you decide whether to proceed.
Consumer resources
Vermont Fair Housing Rights and Resources
Vermont law expressly identifies sexual orientation and gender identity among the protected characteristics covered by its unfair-housing provisions. The statute addresses discrimination in areas including the sale or rental of real estate, terms and services, housing advertising, and other housing-related activity.
Vermont law also provides a route for a person who believes they experienced unlawful housing discrimination to file a charge with the Vermont Human Rights Commission.
Fair-housing laws and enforcement standards can change, and the facts of an individual situation matter. This page provides general educational information, not legal advice. For broader educational guidance, review Pride REC's Fair Housing Guide and current Vermont resources.
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