
Issue Spotlight: Vermont Home Prices Soar, Squeezing Workers Vermonters Out
The rapidly rising price of homes in Vermont is a worrying trend. Strikingly, sales of $1 million homes in Vermont nearly tripled in the last year. Home prices overall rose 6.9% statewide from 2019, with most of the growth in prices occurring during the second half of the year, according to Vermont Property Transfer Tax records. Burlington, in particular, is experiencing a housing boom—from January to early March, Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty reported a 17.6% i