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Catskills - Sullivan County - Ulster County Real Estate -- Catskill Farms Journal

Old School Real estate blog in the Catskills. Journeys, trial, tribulations, observations and projects of Catskill Farms Founder Chuck Petersheim. Since 2002, Catskill Farms has designed, built, and sold over 250 homes in the Hills, investing over $100m and introducing thousands to the areas we serve. Farms, Barns, Moderns, Cottages and Minis - a design portfolio which has something for everyone.

January 24, 2018

Dutchess County's All-Season Party Porch


Think of upstate New York real estate and few people wouldn’t think of Rhinebeck soon thereafter.  Right up there with Woodstock in name recognition, Rhinebeck and its sister Red Hook anchor Dutchess County real estate deep into the journals of visitors and home searchers.  Affluent, east of the river, quaint towns with tony private schools, well-combed hair and not a tie-dye in sight, Dutchess County is the Catskills' Hamptons.   Prices, however, and traffic, and taxes, and whatever other quality of life metric you endeavor to use, are much more digestible and humane with Dutchess County real estate compared to the East End of Long Island.


Catskill Farms' first foray into Dutchess County real estate was Country Living’s 2014 House of the Year – a real beauty just outside of Town.  Since then, we have built and sold 3 more homes and are half way through our 4th.  We love the open fields and mellow hills, old farms and vintage architecture.  Prices are in the $500k-$700k range and land can be hard to find, however, value holds up well, schools are excellent and this is one of the few upstate counties our clients can easily envision assimilating into full-time.


If you are thinking of Dutchess County real estate, let us tell you what we know and have learned with our 3 year experiments of land buying and home building.





The Homes of Catskill Farms are engineered to be as energy efficient as a home can be. Enhanced insulation paves the way for superior performance from our high efficiency furnaces and on-demand hot water heaters. Many of our homes now have heat pumps for their heating source, eliminating the need for gas or oil as a fuel source.


The small towns of Dutchess County offer beauty, amenities and charm in abundance.  They offer film festivals and live music. The hamlets and towns that anchor the surrounding land we curate and select for our homes make Ulster County real estate some of the best around for fun, food and festivities (or, if you are like us, backyard seistas and hammocks rank right up there).


Click here to read more about Dutchess County Real Estate. Catskill Homes For Sale.


Catskill Farms designs, builds and sells homes and Real estate in Sullivan County, real estate in Ulster County and real estate in Dutchess County. The homes of Catskill Farms tend work, look great, are fully warrantied and have a sort of timeless design. Catskills real estate available for purchase has been undoubtedly improved by the 100 homes this premier Catskills Builder has dreamed up and built since 2001.


Catskills realtors love Catskill Farms homes for sale in the Catskills since their buyers tend to be inspired by them after the long slog at looking at homes that don’t meet the buyers’ criteria. When people from the city think of upstate homes, many of them think real estate near Woodstock. With one of the most famous town brands around, searching for homes for sale in Woodstock NY is a perfectly logical place to start a Catskills real estate search. While many families find homes in Woodstock have a lot to offer, they soon find the Catskills are much bigger and much more diverse than that culturally important locale. Wasting weekends looking at uninspiring Catskills architecture can leave a buyer looking for the nearest bridge to jump from. Catskill Farms checks all the Catskill real estate boxes.

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