Turnover is minimal.
Prices are high.
And locals are quick to snatch up anything listed. They also talk about what such sales mean for escalating property taxes. That property's been in the family 100 years. Hoffman, an easy-going storyteller with a gentle smile, remembers an island where young families lived off the land and sea, plowing fields with horses and fishing salmon from a fleet of reef netters. Eggs and fryers were a thriving business.