Once a rare luxury, swimming pools on Martha’s Vineyard have burgeoned in popularity, driven in part by demand from the summer rental market for more amenities.
After neighbors rallied against a proposed home expansion on South Water street, the architect behind the project proposed new plans that would leave the harbor view intact.
A neighbor of a yet-to-be built Oak Bluffs inn filed a lawsuit against the town planning board this week, arguing the board’s approval of the inn’s permits ignored town parking requirements.
Seven years after the Aquinnah Shop Restaurant first left Wampanoag hands, the property and business have gone up for sale once again with an asking price of $3.5 million.
A group of roughly 20 neighbors and abutters have organized to protest a proposed renovation of 81 South Water street in Edgartown, claiming that the new construction will block one of the last public views of the harbor.
A new form of timeshare called fractional ownership has Island towns reexamining their zoning bylaws in an attempt to preserve the Vineyard’s dwindling housing stock.
As the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank prepares to move to its new headquarters on Meetinghouse Way, the land bank’s commission recently announced a request for proposals to purchase its current building on 167 Main street.
The number of homes on Martha’s Vineyard registered as short-term rental properties shot up by 35 per cent over the summer, with industry professionals pointing to the real estate market in explaining the increase.
