Coast and waterfront
Working harbors, tidal rivers and the towns built around them.
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Working harbors and quiet village greens, lakes and woods, city neighborhoods and year-round small towns — Bean Group helps you find the part of Maine that fits the life you're building.
Listings
Coastal villages, city neighborhoods, lakes and the western mountains — see what's available, then tell us what caught your eye.
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Maine looks different depending on what you're after: a working harbor, an easy Portland commute, a lake in the western mountains or a quiet town up north.
Working harbors, tidal rivers and the towns built around them.
The Cumberland County towns within an easy reach of Portland.
Sebago, the Oxford Hills and the ski country beyond them.
Penobscot Bay and the peninsulas between the Kennebec and the Damariscotta.
Looking for somewhere smaller? Browse all Maine cities and towns.
Regions
Coast, lakes, mountains, city and the wide-open north — start where the daily life appeals to you, then open the towns inside it.
York County — Kittery north to the Kennebunks and Old Orchard Beach, with sand beaches, tidal rivers and the shortest commute to the Seacoast and Boston.
York County · 29 cities, towns and plantations
Cumberland County — Portland and the Casco Bay towns and islands, the state's largest job market and its deepest year-round housing inventory.
Cumberland County · 28 cities, towns and plantations
Bath and Brunswick east through Boothbay, Camden and Belfast — working harbors, peninsulas and island communities along Penobscot Bay.
Sagadahoc County, Lincoln County, Knox County, Waldo County · 73 cities, towns and plantations
Ellsworth, Mount Desert Island and the coast east to Eastport — Acadia National Park, blueberry barrens and quiet shorefront villages.
Hancock County, Washington County · 81 cities, towns and plantations
The state capital at Augusta, Waterville, and the river towns north to the Forks — central Maine with lakes, mills and a lower cost of entry.
Kennebec County, Somerset County · 62 cities, towns and plantations
Lewiston, Auburn and the surrounding towns — Maine's second-largest urban market, thirty-five minutes from Portland.
Androscoggin County · 14 cities, towns and plantations
Bethel, Rangeley, Sugarloaf and the Sebago-to-Rangeley lake country — ski terrain, camp roads and a long-established seasonal market.
Oxford County, Franklin County · 56 cities, towns and plantations
Bangor, Orono and the university corridor, then north to Moosehead Lake and Maine's largest stretch of unorganized territory.
Penobscot County, Piscataquis County · 77 cities, towns and plantations
“The County” — Presque Isle, Caribou, Houlton and the St. John Valley, farm country on the Canadian border and the largest county east of the Mississippi.
Aroostook County · 64 cities, towns and plantations
Communities
The Maine towns and cities people ask us about most. Every other municipality is in the directory below.
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Penobscot County
Browse all Maine cities and towns — Every organized Maine municipality, alphabetised and searchable, with a community page wherever we have one.
Coverage map
See how Maine fits together, from the southern beaches to Aroostook. Highlight a region on the map, then open the town you're considering.
Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Cartographic Boundary Files (county subdivisions), simplified for the web. Regions are Bean Group editorial groupings of whole counties, not government boundaries.
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Maine has 23 cities, 430 towns and 31 plantations (484 organized municipalities). The map also draws the remaining 45 Census county subdivisions — unorganized territories, a gore and reservations — which have no municipal government and are shown for context only.
Market data
Statewide Maine sales activity is compiled by Maine Listings, the multiple listing service Maine brokerages report to. The dashboard below is the public snapshot built on that data, and it is the same underlying record set our agents work from.
We publish it rather than restate it. Filters for property type, county and town sit inside the dashboard, so the figures you see are the ones you selected — not a number we retyped into this page and left to go stale.
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Source: Maine Real Estate Information System, Inc. d/b/a Maine Listings. Dashboard provided by Domus Analytics. The dashboard shows its own reporting period and updates through the provider. Maine Association of REALTORS® statistics archive.
Results change with the filters you choose: property type, geography and reporting period all affect what is counted. Market data is periodically revised as late-reported sales are recorded.
Compiled and reviewed by the Bean Group brokerage team.
Listings
Open current Maine listings and narrow by county, price, property type and status — or find out what your own home is worth.
Living here
Maine is really several markets. Greater Portland and southern York County are year-round commuter markets; the Midcoast, the western lakes and mountains, and much of the Downeast coast carry a large seasonal and second-home component, where inventory, pricing and even showing access move with the calendar.
Coastal and waterfront purchases carry extra diligence. Shoreland zoning applies within a set distance of the water and can limit expansion, tree removal and new structures. Ask early about the septic system and its design flow, the well and its water test, whether the property is on a private road and what the road maintenance agreement says, right-of-way and shore access rights, and flood zone and insurance exposure.
Inland and rural properties raise their own questions: heating source and annual fuel cost, insulation, winter road maintenance and plowing, and whether a camp road is passable year-round. Some homes are built for summer use and are not winterized.
Property tax rates are set municipality by municipality, and Maine's homestead exemption applies only to a primary residence — a second home is assessed without it. Maine also withholds a portion of the sale price at closing from many non-resident sellers. Ask us for the current mill rate and assessment practice in the specific town you're considering rather than relying on a statewide average.
General guidance only, not legal, tax or insurance advice — confirm current rules, rates and requirements with the municipality, your closing attorney and your insurer.
Bean Group Team
Meet Bean Group team members who are licensed to help buyers and sellers across Maine.

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Common questions
Buying, selling, or still deciding between the coast and the lakes — we'll give you a straight read on the town and your timing.