Want to Live in New Hampshire?
We have beautiful estate lots available in new Boston New Hampshire, a New England village that retains its small-town character. These wooded parcels vary in size from 2+ to 12+ acres. Manchester, New Hampshire and its airport (Manchester-Boston Regional) are a short drive away, and Boston is just over an hour.
Looking into the land along Clark Hill Road
Add comment November 20, 2009
What makes our New Boston land unique?
We have gone to considerable lengths to preserve the character of the area and have done selective forestry management to enhance the health and beauty of all of the wooded areas that make up the majority each lot.
- Located animal trails on the property; designed lots so as to allow these to remain with little or no disturbance
- Selectively removed some trees to improve overall health of forested areas, allowing more sunlight to reach the forest floor, make walking, hiking, or cross-country skiing easier, and provide the ability to orient each home so it can benefit from passive solar warmth with no increase in building costs
- Created a Storm Water Management Plan (SWMP) for all lots that results in less disturbance to the land and its inhabitants than most other such systems
- Provide alternative energy technology information, information about architects, builders, suppliers, alternative energy financial incentives
- Provide links to useful Websites, other blogs, articles, and energy consumption comparisons or other data
- All lots except one (including back lots) have frontage on a town-designated scenic road
- Pleasant walk or bike ride to New Boston village
- All parcels are in keeping with New Boston’s old New England charm and rural character
An Entrance on Clark Hill Road
Add comment January 2, 2010
Conservation
Several ways to conserve land and its wildlife are to put it in Current Use (this land is already in CU), to put a Conservation Easement on all or part of your property, and/or to have Covenants on the property (some Covenants are already in place).
Below are explanations of each of these.
- Current Use
- Conservation Easements
- Protective Covenants
One of the many old stone walls on the property
Current Use status permits landowners who own 10 or more contiguous acres to pay very low R.E. taxes. Even more importantly, it helps people of modest means own large parcels of land. Most of the open land in NH is in Current Use. The larger lots available for sale (11+ to 12+ acres) can largely be kept in Current Use and no action would need to be taken by you for that to happen. Only the footprint of your home, the area immediately surrounding it (your yard), and the driveway would come out of C.U. status and their tax rate would be changed to the regular residential rate. Under C.U. law, you are allowed to grow crops, raise animals, have horses, harvest trees, and even to allow low-impact recreational use such as hiking, cross-country skiing, etc. Permitting low-impact recreational use lowers your R.E. taxes even further than Current Use standard rates.
Conservation Easements (NOTE: Clicking on this link will open or download a PDF file, depending on how your browser is configured. It is written by The Society for Protection of NH Forests.) It has an excellent explanation of what Conservation Easements are. Among other things, it explains:
- Who owns the land when a Conservation Easement is placed on it
- Who can hold Conservation Easements
- What uses are permitted on Conservation Easement land
- What uses are prohibited
- Specific permitted uses you can request on easement land
- Income tax deductions if you donate some or all of the value of the easement land to a qualified organization, such as the Piscataquog Land Conservancy, for example
- How a Conservation Easement may reduce Estate Taxes
- How such an easement on all or part of your land may make it easier to gift the land to your children without taking a tax hit
- How your land might be eligible for a Conservation Easement even if it is not eligible for Current Use status, thereby lowering your local R.E. taxes
Add comment January 1, 2010
Photos of New Boston Village
Dodge's General Store
“The Apple Barn” Garden Shop
Bandstand Where Summer Concerts Are Held
New Boston Town Hall
New Boston Fire Station and the Community Church
Add comment June 1, 2009
