Coldwell Banker Plourde Real Estate

10/30/2026

Some people carve a masterpiece. Don brought a candy bucket. No contest this year, but we’ll be rewatching this every Halloween.🎃

Who do you know that would pull the exact same move?

10/29/2026

Proud of our own Real Estate Agent Ellen Wells, serving Central Maine for supporting the Belgrade Recreation Summer Concert Series! 🎶 Community events like this are a big part of what makes Central Maine home, and we’re grateful to be part of it. Thank you, Belgrade Recreation, for the shout-out.

Thank you to our friend and neighbor Ellen Wells and Coldwell Banker Plourde Real Estate for their donation to our Summer Concert Series! We appreciate you! Town of Belgrade, Maine Christine Poulson

10/26/2026

Not every horror story happens in a haunted house. 🏚️

Some of these are for buyers, some are for sellers, and at least one happens to every Mainer once the cold weather hits. 🥶

What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever found during a house hunt?

10/21/2026

Every lake house owner knows the text. “Can we come up this weekend?”

At 145 Meadow Lane in Smithfield, saying yes is easy.

Start with 110 feet of owned, private frontage on North Pond and water views to match. Spend mornings on the deck, where the built-in bench has room for everyone. Give guests a place of their own in the separate in-law apartment, with a private entrance, bedroom, full bath, kitchen, and living/dining area. And when the guest list is quiet, it can generate rental income.

Heat pumps, a heated garage, and paved parking on a dead-end private road keep it working well past summer.

3 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | 2,128 sq. ft. | 0.82 acres
$749,900

Want more info or a private showing?
Call Michael Bard at 📲 207-441-9196

10/20/2026

the “next weekend” patio furniture has left the chat 👻

A few habits we’re letting go of before the snow flies, whether you’re buying, selling, or just getting the house through another Maine winter.

Which one are you? And who came to mind on slide 12?

10/16/2026

Accio: smooth closings. 🪄✨

Bringing this one back for Halloween, because broom season seemed like the right time.

Heather and Patty keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes. Their expertise and dedication are the reason this place runs the way it does.

When you work with us, this is the kind of magic supporting your move from start to finish.

10/14/2026

Under $500K. 1,078 feet of private shoreline.

Most people think of a lake house as a summer place. This one has been running all four seasons since 2012.

Wyman Lake is thirteen miles long and 150 feet deep. Mornings are coffee on the deck. Afternoons are kayaking, paddleboarding, fishing, or taking the boat out to poke around the islands. Evenings are the firepit.

Three waterfalls are within ten miles. Moxie Falls drops ninety feet, Grand Falls forty, and Houston Brook Falls thirty into a swimming hole. The Kennebec and the Dead start right up the road, whitewater if you want it and a lazy float trip if you don’t. In winter, ITS 87 runs past the door.

It is a year-round waterfront home. Two bedrooms plus a loft, one full bath, open kitchen and living with vaulted ceilings, and a front deck that looks straight out at the water. Rinnai propane heat, 1.73 acres, sold fully furnished and ready from day one.

Live in it year-round, come up for the season, or keep it in the rental program it has been in for over a decade.

$499,000. 1 Lakeside Drive, Caratunk.

For more information or to schedule your private showing, contact Kim Niles at 207-877-5045.

Who came to mind first? There are four chairs around that fire.

10/13/2026

A few of us were selling homes in Central Maine back when all of this was normal. We’ve been here since 1989.

Nobody misses the fax machine. The film is gone. The atlas, though, is probably still tucked away in the car. What hasn’t changed is the part that never fit in an MLS book: which camp roads you can actually drive in spring, which roads get plowed first, and what a house is really worth on a street you grew up on.

Which one takes you back the furthest?