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Selina Lamb of Birch Properties offers a fully renovated historic mill building, perfect for living and working. Bobby Houston and Jennifer Bianco of Scout House remodel a grand Berkshire home. A year-end report on the 2023 Berkshire real estate market. Plus, recent sales, gardening columns and more.

Here’s what we have for you this week in The Edge Real Estate section:

  • Property of the Week – Selina Lamb of Birch Properties offers a stunning one-of-a-kind modern and gorgeous historic mill building with three stories of light-filled open space.
  • Transformations – Bobby Houston and Jennifer Bianco of Scout House remodeled the grand former home of opera diva Phyllis Curtin and turned a barn into a ballroom.
  • Weekly real estate transactions for Berkshire County, Northern Litchfield County and Columbia County.
  • Market Perspective – 2023 was a mixed bag, and the market remains confusing. But there are pockets of great promise.
  • The Self-Taught Gardener – How do we get our gardens to produce flowers in the middle of this dark winter season? Lee has suggestions.
  • The Lazy Berkshire Gardener – We are not in the gardens at this time of year, but we can still work on our indoor “gardens.”

 

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