The Council Collection | Stowe, Vermont | October 2026

At $20,000,000, Pristine Meadow at 2575 Weeks Hill Road in Stowe works out to about $1,414 per square foot. That buys six bedrooms, eight full and two half baths, and 14,145 square feet on 110.6 acres, built in 2000, with an indoor pool, a guest apartment, a four-bay garage, a separate barn, and an unfinished cottage.

The per-foot figure tells half the story. What the market is underwriting here is the land: 110 acres of meadow, woodland, trails, and a swimming pond that the listing places in the heart of Stowe, not out past it. In a ski town, contiguous acreage that close in is the scarce part.

The listing is held by Meg Kauffman of LandVest, an affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate, and a fellow member of Christie's International Real Estate Council.

The Council film for Pristine Meadow.

The Property

The aerial makes the case before any room does. The house, the garage, and the barn sit together in one cleared meadow with the pond off to the side, and woodland runs out in every direction until it meets the ridgeline.

One meadow, one pond, 110 acres of woods, and the ski trails on the horizon.

The residence was designed in the manner of a European country estate, with Italian-inspired interiors, imported materials, and architectural millwork throughout. The great room rises two stories under a wall of windows, and it manages to read as both formal and comfortable, which is harder at this scale than it looks.

Two stories of glass, and still a room you would sit in.

The kitchen is Boffi, with custom cabinetry and a concealed walk-in pantry, and it opens to a breakfast room with its own fireplace and a solarium. A wood-paneled study with a wet bar sits off the main dining room.

The Boffi kitchen, with the pantry hidden behind it.

Upstairs, the primary suite takes the views, with spa-style baths and a dressing room for each occupant. A guest suite is finished to the same standard, three more bedrooms each have their own bath, and a guest apartment beside the second floor has its own entrance and a lock-off.

An upper-level suite that turns its whole wall to the land.

The lower level holds a fitness room, a climate-controlled wine cellar, and laundry. The indoor pool is finished in hand-laid tile and travertine. Outside the main house sit the four-bay garage, a car or implement barn, and an unfinished cottage that could become guest quarters, a studio, or an office.

Full remarks and all 27 photographs are on Meg Kauffman's listing page for 2575 Weeks Hill Road.

About Meg Kauffman

Meg Kauffman is a broker with LandVest, an affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate, focused on the Vermont luxury and land market. She has represented buyers and sellers in Stowe and the surrounding towns since 2006, and has served on the board of the Stowe Land Trust. On a sale where most of the value is open land, that background matters.

What This Market Values

Stowe is a ski town before it is anything else. Stowe Mountain Resort sits on Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak, and the village, the resort, and the road between them set the map of value for everything around them.

The approach is a meadow, not a driveway lined with neighbors.

The first thing this market prices is position. A large parcel inside Stowe, close to the village and the mountain, is worth more than a larger one an hour out, because the people paying these numbers want to ski in the morning and be home for lunch.

The second is privacy you can see. Stowe's best properties are sold on what surrounds the house: open land, woods, a pond, trails you own. At Pristine Meadow, the listing counts walking and skiing trails as part of the 110 acres. That is a four-season amenity, and in this market it carries real weight.

The third is a house that works in winter. An indoor pool, a wine cellar, a fitness room, and a guest apartment are not extras in a place where the snow arrives early and stays. The trade the buyer accepts is the cost of running all of it, a 14,000-square-foot house and more than a hundred acres, through a long Vermont winter.

How It Compares to the Upstate

At $20 million, the comparison starts with scale. DHG's own recent high-water marks give the scale: $6,300,000 for 125 Scenic Crest Way at Cliffs at Keowee Springs in November 2025, and $4,625,000 for Hidden Hollow Farm in Columbus, North Carolina, the highest sale on record for Polk County in the MLS.

The terrace faces the same horizon the price is built on.

The bigger difference is what the land costs. In Stowe, acreage near the mountain is the premium. In the Upstate and the foothills corridor, land is the inexpensive part of the equation. At Hidden Hollow Farm, the acreage beyond the house, barn, and pool priced at about $25,000 an acre, and that figure already carried a premium for the view and trail access. At that rate, 110 acres would come to roughly $2.75 million.

So the premium moves. At Lake Keowee it sits on the shoreline. In The Cliffs it sits on the club, the golf, and the social calendar that come with membership. A buyer who wants a hundred acres, a mountain view, and real privacy can have all three here for a fraction of the Stowe number. What the Upstate cannot offer is a major ski mountain at the end of the road, and a Stowe buyer should be honest about how much of the price that one thing explains.

What Most Buyers Miss

Price per acre is the wrong lens. Divide $20,000,000 by 110.6 acres and you get about $180,800 an acre, a number that describes nothing. Separate the improved core, meaning the house and outbuildings and the land they need, from the remaining acreage, and value each on its own.

Ask whether the land is in Current Use. Vermont's Use Value Appraisal program lets parcels of 25 acres or more be taxed on their use value rather than market value, and enrolled land carries a land use change tax if it is later developed. The listing does not say whether any of this parcel is enrolled. Find out before modeling taxes or any future plans for the land.

The tax line is real money. Listing data puts estimated annual taxes at $108,506. Vermont taxes a second home at the non-homestead education rate, so confirm which classification that figure reflects and what yours would be.

A 2000 house has 2000 systems somewhere. Heat is propane-fired, multi-zone hot water and radiant, with central air and mini-splits. Ask for the age and service history of the boilers, the roof, and the pool equipment, because an indoor pool in Vermont runs its dehumidification hard for months.

The cottage is a budget line, not a bonus. It is sold unfinished. Price the work and the permitting before counting it as guest space or an office.

A lock-off apartment raises a zoning question. It is ideal for family or staff. Anyone counting on it as rental income should confirm with the Town of Stowe what is permitted first.

Three trade-offs sit underneath all of it. Land and privacy in the middle of a ski town versus the carrying cost of 110 acres and a 14,000-square-foot house through a Vermont winter. A finished estate versus the systems work a 26-year-old house implies. And a market that prices the mountain into every acre versus an Upstate market where the same money buys land, water, and club life with room left over.

Hand-laid tile and travertine, built for a Vermont January.

Related Insights

Pristine Meadow is the kind of cross-market property Damian tracks as a member of Christie's International Real Estate Council. Northeast owners weighing a place farther south should read what second-home buyers find in Greenville SC, and sellers expecting that buyer usually start by choosing a luxury real estate advisor in Greenville who can price against both markets.

A Local, Advisory Perspective

We follow a listing like Pristine Meadow because an Upstate seller's buyer can be coming from a market like this one. A family that knows what a meadow, a mountain view, and real privacy cost in New England is pricing every acre near Landrum and every house in The Cliffs against that memory. Knowing the Stowe number, per foot and per acre, lets us position an Upstate property against the alternative that buyer has lived with. Damian Hall Group sits on The Council for this reason. The Council Collection runs weekly, featuring one member's listing and what it means here.

Photography courtesy of LandVest, Inc.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does $20 million buy in Stowe, Vermont?

At Pristine Meadow, 2575 Weeks Hill Road, $20,000,000 buys a 14,145-square-foot estate with six bedrooms and eight full and two half baths on 110.6 acres in the heart of Stowe. It includes an indoor pool, a guest apartment, a four-bay garage, a barn, an unfinished cottage, a swimming pond, and walking and skiing trails. That works out to about $1,414 per square foot.

Why is Pristine Meadow in Stowe priced at $20 million?

Most of the value is in the land and where it sits: 110 contiguous acres of meadow, woodland, and trails, with a swimming pond, in the heart of a ski town. The house adds Italian-inspired interiors, a Boffi kitchen, and an indoor pool finished in tile and travertine. The per-foot figure alone understates how much of the price is the parcel.

How does Stowe compare to The Cliffs or Lake Keowee for a luxury buyer?

Stowe puts its premium on land near a major ski mountain, while the Upstate puts its premium on lake frontage at Keowee and on club membership in The Cliffs. Acreage in the Upstate and the foothills corridor is comparatively inexpensive; at Hidden Hollow Farm in Polk County, the land beyond the improvements priced at about $25,000 an acre. The same budget buys far more land here, but no ski mountain.

What should buyers check before purchasing a large acreage estate in Vermont?

Ask whether any of the land is enrolled in Vermont's Current Use program, which carries a land use change tax if enrolled land is developed. Confirm whether the tax figure reflects homestead or non-homestead classification, since second homes pay the non-homestead rate. Get the age and service history of heating, roof, and pool systems, and value the improved core separately from the acreage.

What is Christie's International Real Estate Council?

Christie's International Real Estate Council is an invitation-only group of thirty advisors drawn from more than fourteen thousand agents worldwide. Members collaborate on market intelligence and cross-market opportunity, which is why Damian Hall Group features one member's listing each week in The Council Collection.