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How can a buyer benefit from private brokerage?
We often hear how desirable private brokerage is for sellers. What are the benefits to our buying clients?
Confidentiality
Many of our Kirkpatrick & Co. clients are high-profile individuals who value their privacy and prefer to keep their real estate transactions confidential. A private transaction ensures that many details about the purchase [...]
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July 11, 2023
What’s behind those columns?
Discover the hidden past of many Bluegrass Greek Revival homes
Kentucky is famed for its genteel horse farms boasting white-columned Greek Revival estates. Visitors are often surprised to discover many of these “Greek Revival” manses date from much earlier than that period (c.1830-60) in Kentucky.
As now, homeowners were eager to demonstrate [...]
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July 11, 2023
Why do tobacco barns make good horse barns?
While an ever more rare sight, many Kentuckians have fond memories of tobacco hanging across the Bluegrass. Many warmly recall the scent of barns filled with one of Kentucky’s most successful cash crops of yore.
Old tobacco barn on 2527 & 2439 Grimes Mill, sold by Kirkpatrick & Co.
Kentucky’s rich [...]
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June 30, 2023
Meet the Surprising New Farm Buyers
Here’s why the buyer for your farm might surprise you…
Seldom Scene Farm, sold by Kirkpatrick & Co.
As expected, the equine “infrastructure” continues to draw sporthorse equestrians to the Bluegrass. The thoroughbred farm market remains strong, too, with many operations investing in further land acquisition. (We talk a little more about [...]
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June 30, 2023
Brick by Brick: Beauty & History in Central Kentucky
Brick construction lends gravitas and permanence to the Bluegrass’s historic homes
The Greek Revival façade of the Elkton Farm’s John Suggett House expanded an earlier stone structure
We’re known for our representation of buyers & sellers of historic homes and estates. In particular, we’re praised for the historic and cultural research we conduct, adding [...]
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June 8, 2023
Honoring Heritage Farms
How do we gracefully manage the sale of a living family heirloom?
“It’s important to honor the heritage of the farm and convey that sense of history to buyers,” says Zach Davis, President & Principal Broker of Kirkpatrick & Co. When the time comes to entrust a new steward with a [...]
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May 6, 2023
President’s Welcome
“What can please the eye of a countryman more than the unbroken verdancy and fertility of a Kentucky bluegrass farm?”
John Burroughs, ‘Riverby’
Not much, we say. That’s why we’ve made our living helping clients buy and sell the finest real estate in the Bluegrass for over thirty years.
At Kirkpatrick & Co., we’re [...]
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January 1, 2023
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