BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 19, 2025
People of all stripes have long flocked to the Moosehead Lake region to get away from everyday life, making the region prized for its privacy for regular Mainers and high-income outsiders alike. The pandemic-era real estate market has tilted things more toward wealthy buyers, something that has been a slow trend in the region’s long tourism history. Property has remained affordable because of inaccessibility. But the pandemic changed that dramatically. Home values in Greenville have increased over 75 percent. Luke Muzzy, executive director of the Moosehead Historical Society, doesn’t worry about the region changing forever because of new buyers. “You’re looking at an area larger than the size of Rhode Island that will always remain undeveloped,” he said. “The overall footprint of where development has occurred in the last 100-plus years is relatively unchanged. Never will change.”