Farmland sales in Bennington County, Vermont

7 recorded sales in the last 12 months, any size (5 of 10 acres or more).

Market middle: $3,766 an acre, the middle of 9 bare farmland sales of 20 acres or more at $500 an acre or more, Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2026 (middle half $1,988 to $7,799). Sales with buildings, forest and small parcels are listed below but kept out of this middle.

All of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Vermont together: the September 2026 update, with the biggest buyers and unusual prices.

Vermont sales come from the property transfer tax return. A return is a farm sale here when the land's use before or after the sale is an operating farm or timberland, or open land enrolled in current use. Left out of the market rule: a buyer the return marks as related to the seller (family, the seller's own trust or another relation), a return that claims a transfer tax exemption, a transfer the land gains tax return says was without pay, by divorce or by foreclosure, and anything less than the whole interest (a share, a life estate, a lease or an easement). Buildings come from the return's buildings boxes; timberland with no operating farm and no buildings is forest. Current use enrollment is shown on each sale; Vermont enrolls both farm and forest land, so open land in current use is counted as farmland and may include some woods. Our Vermont copy starts with the returns posted in 2019.

Every recorded sale

80 sales on file, Mar 12, 2019 to Aug 14, 2026: 40 farmland, 20 with buildings, 12 forest, 8 small parcels.

Newest first, Bennington County, Vermont
DateWhereAcresPrice$/acreTypeNoteNames
Aug 14, 2026Dorset town, Bennington County, VT544.4$2,050,000$3,766farmlandEnrolled in current use
Jul 1, 2026Sandgate town, Bennington County, VT30.5$1,700,000$55,793with buildingsEnrolled in current use
Apr 7, 2026Rupert town, Bennington County, VT170$600,000$3,529farmlandEnrolled in current use
Mar 31, 2026Peru town, Bennington County, VT46.3$361,100$7,799farmlandEnrolled in current use
Mar 31, 2026Rupert town, Bennington County, VT7.8$9,176$1,176small parcelEnrolled in current use
Mar 24, 2026Sandgate town, Bennington County, VTnot stated$780,000farmlandEnrolled in current use
Mar 24, 2026Peru town, Bennington County, VT99.3$525,000$5,286farmlandEnrolled in current use
Sep 12, 2025Pownal town, Bennington County, VT69.5$52,125$750farmlandEnrolled in current use
Aug 8, 2025Bennington town, Bennington County, VT7$73,500$10,500small parcelEnrolled in current use
Jul 31, 2025Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT138.3$275,000$1,988farmlandEnrolled in current use
Jul 21, 2025Manchester town, Bennington County, VT16.9$1,255,000$74,129with buildings
Apr 10, 2025Rupert town, Bennington County, VT282$550,000$1,950farmlandEnrolled in current use
Apr 8, 2025Stamford town, Bennington County, VT10.4$30,000$2,885forest
Mar 10, 2025Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT92.5$800,000$8,650farmlandEnrolled in current use
Mar 7, 2025Stamford town, Bennington County, VT1$4,000$4,000forest
Feb 18, 2025Peru town, Bennington County, VT39$338,500$8,679farmlandEnrolled in current use
Feb 11, 2025Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT61.1$892,000$14,597with buildings
Dec 16, 2024Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT21.5$154,100$7,167with buildings
Dec 16, 2024Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT50.3$1,680,000$33,373with buildingsEnrolled in current use
Sep 30, 2024Arlington town, Bennington County, VT10.4$550,000$52,885with buildings
Aug 23, 2024Bennington town, Bennington County, VT0.3$185,000$660,714with buildings
Aug 5, 2024Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT253.7$625,000$2,464with buildingsEnrolled in current use
Jul 22, 2024Arlington town, Bennington County, VT85$375,000$4,412forestEnrolled in current use
Jul 15, 2024Bennington town, Bennington County, VT18.5$285,000$15,405with buildings
May 13, 2024Manchester town, Bennington County, VT121.5$450,000$3,704with buildingsEnrolled in current use
May 13, 2024Sunderland town, Bennington County, VT27$63,000$2,333farmlandEnrolled in current use
Apr 1, 2024Sunderland town, Bennington County, VT42$10,000$238farmlandEnrolled in current use
Jan 25, 2024Landgrove town, Bennington County, VT1.4$40,000$28,986with buildings
Dec 6, 2023Pownal town, Bennington County, VT153$295,000$1,928farmlandEnrolled in current use
Oct 31, 2023Pownal town, Bennington County, VT29.4$315,000$10,714farmlandEnrolled in current use
Oct 3, 2023Sunderland town, Bennington County, VT54.3$300,000$5,525farmlandEnrolled in current use
Aug 8, 2023Sandgate town, Bennington County, VT123.5$190,000$1,538forestEnrolled in current use
Jun 13, 2023Peru town, Bennington County, VT117$900,000$7,689farmlandEnrolled in current use
Apr 24, 2023Bennington town, Bennington County, VT81.5$97,800$1,200forest
Apr 11, 2023Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT66$162,719$2,465farmlandEnrolled in current use
Mar 24, 2023Dorset town, Bennington County, VT0.6$6,100$10,167small parcelEnrolled in current use
Mar 16, 2023Landgrove town, Bennington County, VT34.9$349,000$9,991farmlandEnrolled in current use
Feb 13, 2023Pownal town, Bennington County, VT80.7$56,500$700forestEnrolled in current use
Nov 22, 2022Sandgate town, Bennington County, VT65$40,687$626farmlandEnrolled in current use
Aug 31, 2022Pownal town, Bennington County, VT30.5$130,000$4,262farmlandEnrolled in current use
May 31, 2022Rupert town, Bennington County, VT124$330,000$2,661farmlandEnrolled in current use
Mar 28, 2022Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT90$340,000$3,778with buildingsEnrolled in current use
Feb 23, 2022Shaftsbury town, Bennington County, VT39.4$151,100$3,835farmlandEnrolled in current use
Feb 15, 2022Landgrove town, Bennington County, VT35.9$400,000$11,142farmlandEnrolled in current use
Feb 1, 2022Sunderland town, Bennington County, VT137.6$276,000$2,006farmlandEnrolled in current use
Jan 18, 2022Pownal town, Bennington County, VT28.8$131,900$4,580with buildingsEnrolled in current use
Nov 19, 2021Dorset town, Bennington County, VT7.1$600,000$84,626small parcelEnrolled in current use
Oct 21, 2021Landgrove town, Bennington County, VT27.3$349,000$12,798farmlandEnrolled in current use
Oct 21, 2021Rupert town, Bennington County, VT216$123,500$572forestEnrolled in current use
Oct 11, 2021Woodford town, Bennington County, VT5.7$10,000$1,767forest

Showing the newest 50 of 80 sales.

Type: with buildings means the property class on the record shows a house, farm buildings or a business; forest means forest classes with no farm class (Wisconsin) or timberland with no operating farm (Vermont); a small parcel is under 20 acres; farmland is the rest. Acres not stated: a return covering several parcels that does not give them.

A sale marked unusual is bare farmland whose price per acre sits well outside the market middle half; possible reasons above it: a house or buildings, timber or hunting ground, a building site or development land, or a neighbor paying more for the piece next door; below: a family or neighbor sale, a part interest, wooded, wet or poorer ground, no road access, or a land contract.

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A sale is listed when it carries a price and acres and a whole interest changed hands in a normal sale: gifts, family and related-party sales, quit claims, foreclosures and the like are left out, the same rule as Field Scout and the Farmland Atlas. Township and town are where the state places the sale; no parcel is pinned. None of this is an appraisal. Source: Vermont Department of Taxes, property transfer tax returns (published by VCGI), farm, forest and current use land, read Oct 29, 2026.

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