Buyer advisory · Nantucket, MA

The island is small.
Your shortlist should be too.

Buying a second home on Nantucket means limited inventory, historic-district rules and septic questions most agents skip. Tell us how you plan to use the house and we send back the five properties worth your trip.

Build my shortlist · 60 seconds Read the 2026 guide

Discreet and confidential. No listings blast, no pressure.

Nantucket from the air: the harbor, Coatue and the town

“We saw four houses in one day and bought the second one.”

Buyer · Town · 2025

135

homes for sale at the end of August

HDC

every exterior change is reviewed

Septic

Title 5 decides what you can build

1 ferry

your showing day has to count

$3.65M

median home sale price, 2026 to date

Figures: LINK Nantucket, August 2026 Market Snapshot and Year-to-Date Sales Summary.

Easy Street at night, boats and lit storefronts reflected in the harbor
Easy Street, nine o’clock
Kayaks pulled up on a quiet harbor beach
Harbor beach, low season
An overgrown sandy path between hedges
A path to the water
Low tide shoreline with stones and seaweed
Low tide
A figure on a dock at sunset
The last ferry has gone

Your personalized shortlist

Four questions. Five houses. One useful email.

Not a search portal. A person who knows which street floods, which lots can add a pool, and which sellers will actually negotiate.

  1. 01You answer how you'll use the house, area, budget, timing.
  2. 02We reply within one business day with 3–5 properties and a note on each.
  3. 03You decide whether a showing day is worth the ferry. No follow-up calls unless you ask.
Step 1 of 4 · Useabout 60 seconds

How will you use the house?

Free · 13 pages · PDF

Read this before you get on the ferry.

  • —Why Nantucket is different: limited land, meaningful regulation, resilient demand
  • —The true cost of ownership, beyond the purchase price
  • —Neighborhoods at a glance, and how to choose between them
  • —Diligence that protects value, and renting as a strategy

Sent immediately. One follow-up note in a week, then silence unless you write back.

Who you're writing to

One point person. The whole team on the thread, from first text to closing.

Own Nantucket is the buyer program of The Kalman Co., a full-service Nantucket brokerage. You get one point person and the whole team on the same text thread, with everyone's personal number. Ask a question and whoever knows the answer replies, whether it's about septic, the HDC, a street that floods or a seller's timeline. The job is to shorten your search, protect you from the island's expensive surprises, and quietly get you to the right house.

A service of The Kalman Co. · thekalmanco.com

The team: Kayla Holler, Sean Kalman, Gina Aselin, Jo-Ellen Redmond and Taylor Aselin, at Brant Point