The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $158,390 for the business week ending on Friday, May 16, 2014.

A key piece of historic coastal farmland on Chappaquiddick will be conserved, thanks to a purchase announced this week by the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank.

The land bank said Wednesday that it had signed a contract to buy 25 acres of the former Tom’s Neck Farm off the Dike Bridge Road. The purchase price is $5.175 million.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $102,232.50 for the business week ending on Friday, May 9, 2014.

Twelve years in the making, the complicated deal with the town, the land bank and the Howard B. Hillman family will create affordable housing, add conservation land and save a historic home in Chilmark.

Realtors on Martha's Vineyard and the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank are reporting that Island real estate sales are on the rise. For qualifying transactions, revenues per transaction from the last two years are also up.

The long-planned purchase expands the Wapatequa Woods Reservation, provides aquifer protection for the town of Tisbury and a greenbelt for residential neighborhoods. The land bank paid $1.5 million for the property.

A complicated three-way land swap designed to create affordable housing, add conservation land and save a historic home is valid and enforceable, a superior court judge found.

The 1,000-foot crescent of sand that lies south of the Lagoon Pond Bridge came as an early Christmas present for the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank, where outright gifts of land are rare.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank reported revenues of $262,051 for the business week ending on Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. The land bank receives its funds from a two per cent fee charged on many Vineyard real estate transactions.

A large portion of Flat Point Farm in West Tisbury has been permanently placed in conservation thanks to a purchase by the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank completed last week.