Top Real Estate Agents in New Hampshire (2026)

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According to the New Hampshire Department of Real Estate as of May 2020, there are a total of 4,506 licensed real estate agents.

Total real estate agent fees (including seller and buyer’s agents) range from 4-6% of the total home sale price.

This is split between the seller’s agent and the buyer’s agent. So if a home sells for $500,000 and the commission is 5%, the total fee is $25,000 with $12,500 for each agent.

The home seller usually pays for this fee, but that can vary depending on what both sides agree on.

If you want to see if a real estate agent is licensed in New Hampshire you can visit the New Hampshire Department of Real Estate website and look them up by name. This will give you their license number, type, and the cities they are active.

The seller commonly pays the realtor fee.

You will usually see the fee included in the final closing costs for the property sale. On average, total commissions are about 4-6% of the total house sale price, with half going to the seller’s agent and half to the buyer’s agent. This is negotiable and is something you should discuss with your agent before you decide to work with them.

When looking to hire a real estate agent in New Hampshire, it’s essential to interview a few agents and choose the one that fits your needs best.

When interviewing, there are some questions to ask to ensure you get information that will help you with your decisions.

Be sure to ask about where they have worked in the past, what their average price point is, how they like to communicate, and how much they charge for commission. For a full list of recommended questions, see our blog post, Essential Interview Questions to Ask a Real Estate Agent.

New Hampshire real estate agents do much more than just put a sign in front of your house. A good Realtor will work with you from the moment you decide to sell your home to after you hand over the key.

This includes things like working with appraisers to set the right listing price, staging, having pictures taken, preparing the listing, online marketing, open houses, working with individual showings, answering questions, negotiating, closing paperwork, and so much more!

If you don’t think hiring a real estate agent is worth the money, think about this - according to the National Association of Realtors, in 2021 the average home sold FSBO (for sale by owner) sold for 32% less than the average home sold with a Realtor.

Hiring a top real estate agent for selling or buying a home in New Hampshire will save you time and money. Here are four reasons you should consider hiring a real estate agent

1. It’s their job and they have the time and resources you likely don’t have to do it well. 2. They know the market. The best real estate agents live and work in the same area for years, they know it well and can help address your questions and concerns. 3. They are good at negotiating. They work as the middleperson between you and the other party so you can stay behind the scenes. 4. They do the hard work for you. They market your home, make phone calls between interested parties, handle documents, and negotiate the best deal for you.

When browsing through the top New Hampshire real estate agents, you’ll need to know what makes a great real estate agent before making a decision. Here we’ve listed out the qualities that make a great agent to help you narrow it down!

Professionalism: A top real estate agent takes themselves seriously, and handles every situation with professionalism. Responsiveness: A top real estate agent is your go-to for any questions or concerns you may have when it comes to the purchase or sale of your home. Listens to you: A real estate agent is always personable with their clients. Knowledgeable: A professional real estate agent doesn’t live in the dark ages.

Home Buyers and Home Sellers need not worry about finding an agent in New Hampshire. At FastExpert, we take the time to separate the professionals from the agents you should avoid.

More of a handyman question but where can I find the valves that shut off my outside faucets so my pipes don't freeze.

Amanda Courtney: Most homes have an exterior water shut off located near the front of the property. Look for a metal or plastic cover close to the ground, often near the foundation or where the main water line enters the home. If you cannot find it, your local water utility can show you the exact location.

Barrett Henry: Most homes have individual shut-off valves for exterior hose bibs located inside the house, usually in the basement, crawl space, or utility area near where the water line runs to the outside faucet. Follow the pipe from the exterior faucet back through the wall to the interior and you'll typically find a small valve on that line. Turn it clockwise to shut it off.

Once you shut the valve off, go outside and open the exterior faucet to drain any remaining water from the line. This is the step people forget, and it's the one that prevents frozen pipes. If water stays trapped between the shut-off valve and the outside faucet, it can freeze and burst the pipe.

If your home doesn't have individual shut-offs for the exterior faucets, or if you have frost-free hose bibs which are self-draining, the setup is different. Frost-free models have a long stem that shuts the water off inside the wall where it's warm, so they're designed to prevent freezing without a separate shut-off. Check whether your faucets are frost-free by looking at the length of the stem when you remove the handle assembly.

If you can't find the shut-offs or aren't sure what you're looking at, a plumber can locate them and label them for you in about 15 minutes. Worth the service call to know where everything is before the first freeze.

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What do I need to look out for when buying a condominium? Do I need inspections since the association covers the structure? What about financials and rules? I have no idea what to consider.

Bob Fall: Great question! Treat the property like a house purchase in the sense that you will own it. So, get inspections done. ALSO, read the covenants, by-laws, and rules the govern the condominium. Depending on how you write the offer to purchase, these should be considered part of the inspection period. It is a good idea to team up with a local agent that can help you understand these things.

Good luck!

Kathryn Mastandrea: Yes, you want a home inspection and request the budget, bi-laws, condo declaration, rules and regulation, board minutes and move in kits.

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What kind of a housing market is it right now?

Nadia Colucci: Hello Felipe,

Right now it's a balanced market overall, leaning slightly toward buyers compared to the extreme seller conditions of a few years ago.

With inventory around 4.5 months of supply and mortgage rates in the mid 6% range, buyers have more options and negotiating room than during the pandemic frenzy, but sellers aren't getting desperate either since prices are still holding steady or rising slightly.

It varies a lot by region though, some growth areas like Texas still favor sellers, while other markets have cooled more. If you want a read on your specific area, local inventory levels are the best signal to check.

Chris Yochum: Every neighborhood can vary in market conditions depending on location, price point, schools, amenities and much more. Most markets I understand have low inventory which makes it better for seller, though interest rates climbing causing buyers to afford less makes for an interesting market. Most areas have less sells then previous months but still quite active.

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Is the buyer or seller responsible for tree removal? Nothing came up in the inspection report, but the buyer is requesting tree removal. How do we handle this?

Barrett Henry: If the inspection didn't flag the trees as an issue, the buyer's request for tree removal is a negotiation ask, not a contractual obligation. You are not required to remove trees that weren't identified as a defect in the inspection report.

That said, whether you accommodate the request depends on the overall deal and how motivated you are to keep this buyer. If the buyer is asking for tree removal as their only request and the deal is otherwise clean, it might be worth getting a quote and deciding whether the cost is worth keeping the transaction on track. If it's one of several requests and the total is adding up, you have every right to push back.

Respond through your agent. Decline the request, offer a small credit if you want to compromise, or get a quote and decide from there. Tree removal costs vary widely from a few hundred dollars for a small tree to several thousand for large ones, so knowing the actual number helps you make a business decision rather than an emotional one.

Lawrence Hemsley: The buyer or seller is responsible for tree removal.

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My neighbor has proposed removing our shared fence to create a wider driveway, offering me an easement over his portion in return. The arrangement seems reasonably fair, though I haven't yet consulted an attorney. What should I understand about the recording requirements and long-term liabilities before granting a permanent easement like this?

Michael Atkinson: Eleanor, have a real estate attorney review this before agreeing. A permanent easement should be written clearly and recorded with the property records, including who maintains the driveway, pays for repairs, handles damage and liability, and what happens when either property is sold.

Zoltan Peresztegi: Eleanor, the most important thing to understand is that a permanent easement is not a favor between neighbors, it is a permanent change to your title that binds every future owner of your property, including whoever buys it from you. The neighbor you like today is not the party you are actually contracting with. You are contracting with everyone who ever owns that house.

That reframe should drive every decision below.

Start with the type. An easement appurtenant attaches to the land and runs with it, so it survives both of you selling. An easement in gross is personal to the individual holder and generally does not transfer the same way. Your neighbor is almost certainly asking for appurtenant, because that is what makes his driveway permanently usable and what his future buyer's lender will want to see. Understand which one you are granting, because the words matter far more than the handshake.

Next, make it reciprocal and simultaneous. If you are granting him rights over your land in exchange for rights over his, both grants belong in the same recorded instrument, executed at the same time. Do not grant yours now on a promise that his will follow. I have seen the second half of that trade never happen, and once yours is recorded you have given away leverage you cannot get back.

Then, the piece that causes the most litigation and that almost nobody puts in writing: a maintenance and cost-sharing agreement. Spell out who plows the snow, which matters a great deal in Hanover, who repaves and on what schedule, how costs are split, what happens if one party wants an improvement the other does not, and how a disagreement gets resolved. Shared driveways rarely go bad over the right to drive on them. They go bad over who pays for the new asphalt and who did not shovel.

Define the scope narrowly and precisely. The document should state the exact width and location by survey reference, not "the driveway area." It should say what the easement is for, which is vehicular ingress and egress, and it should address parking explicitly, because "can he park on it" is the single most common fight. Say whether it includes utilities. Say whether it permits commercial or construction vehicles. Anything you leave silent, a future owner will read in his own favor.

Practical steps before you sign anything:

Get a current survey. You need to know precisely where the line is, because if the fence has been in the wrong place for years, removing it can affect claims either of you might have, and you want that resolved on paper rather than discovered later.

Call your title insurance company and your mortgage lender. A recorded easement is an encumbrance. Some mortgages require lender consent before you grant one, and you do not want to find out afterward that you technically breached your loan documents.

Have a New Hampshire real estate attorney draft or at least review it. Not a form off the internet. The cost of an hour of a local attorney's time is trivially small next to the cost of a title defect that shows up when you sell.

Finally, think about resale honestly. A shared driveway easement is disclosable and some buyers will discount for it, while others will not care at all. If the arrangement genuinely benefits you too, that is a fair trade. If you are giving more than you are getting because it feels neighborly to say yes, that is a bad trade dressed up as a good one, and you are the one who pays for it at closing years from now.

I am a real estate professional, not an attorney, and this is general guidance rather than advice on your specific parcel, so please do get New Hampshire counsel to look at the actual language and confirm your state's recording requirements. I work the Palos Verdes Peninsula and the South Bay here in Los Angeles County, so Hanover is well outside my market and I am not the right person to walk the property line with you, but I am glad to talk through the structure of the trade if that would help. Zoltan Peresztegi

Zoltan

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