Ruth Kennedy Sudduth

Ruth Kennedy Sudduth is a Principal of the firm and Vice Chair of LandVest’s Board of Directors. She leads LandVest’s Fiduciary Real Estate Services team, providing full real estate support to the wealth advisory community and private clients.

“I first came to LandVest as a client. The local land trust referred us to LandVest to help us buy and conserve the land around our farm. I’d seen the ads for beautiful properties, but didn’t know LandVest could help clients make informed decisions.

I’d used real estate brokers and appraisers before. LandVest was at a whole other level. LandVest’s service to us was fiduciary quality: a high standard of professionalism and collaborative culture, like at Wellington Management, where I worked. It seemed like a market opportunity, so I joined the firm. Plus, I could be outside in beautiful places, helping people and the land. ” 

Since joining LandVest in 1998, Ruth has orchestrated record sales in eight states. Clients have included Harvard University, the Nature Conservancy, MIT, Bessemer Trust, Fiduciary Trust, and private individuals. She is widely respected for her ability to deliver exceptional results for clients nationally, assessing value and marketability, and generating competition and successful sales of special properties. Ruth has particular expertise in the sale of conserved and historic properties: creating strong pricing to encourage private conservation and preservation efforts. She has been named one of the Top Ten Women in Real Estate, is a speaker at global real estate forums, and in 2022, was invited to join the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE), an association of top professionals from around the world. She divides her time between LandVest’s Boston and Woodstock offices.

A graduate of Yale University, with an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was selected as a Baker Scholar, Ruth competed at an elite level in rowing. Prior to joining LandVest in 1998, she co-headed global fixed income at Wellington Management Company. She earned U.S. Dressage Federation Bronze and Silver medals and competed in eventing. Now she loves master's rowing racing around the world, exploring back roads on her gravel bike, and open water swimming. She was raised with a land ethos, her father was director of the National Park Service and her mother retired in her mid-eighties from the Conservation Fund. She has been active in conserving her own farm and land in the surrounding communities.

Ruth’s board service in addition to LandVest includes privately-held companies as well as non-profits, including: The US Rowing Foundation, The Trustees, Historic New England, Root North Shore,  Groton School, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Archaeology Southwest, Bennington College, Sudbury Valley Trustees, Green Mountain Horse Association, New England Forestry Foundation, and the Zoning Board of Appeals and Planning Board of Stow, MA.

Representative projects include:

• planning and record sale of the over 570+ acre conserved Coolidge Estate in Topsfield, Massachusetts for MIT
• sales of numerous gifted properties for Harvard University and other major charitable institutions
• planning and disposition of trust properties for national law firms, single family and multifamily offices
• record sales of major properties in the Woodstock, Vermont and Greater Boston areas
• orchestration of a competitive bid for the Brown family farm outside of Louisville, Kentucky for Bessemer Trust
• disposition planning and sale of a major conserved 600+ acre waterfront estate on the Eastern Shore of Maryland for Covington & Burling
• sale of an historic Coast Guard Station on the Eastern Shore of Virginia for the Nature Conservancy
• assisting the Town of Littleton, MA in the purchase of a large apple orchard important to Town culture
• management of the conservation sales of the Campbell Trust properties in Groton, MA, properties which are vitally important to the character of the town, for a private family, the Trust for Public Land, and the Groton Conservation Foundation

Significant Sales:

• Fernwood Estate, Brookline, MA $17,000,000
• 237 Long Neck Point, Darien, CT
• Hilltop Farm, Woodstock, VT Private Sale
• Melimoyu, Cisne Province, Patagonia, Chile $10,034,335
• High Haith Lodge, Squam Lake, NH, $9 million Record Sale
• Fincastle Farm, Louisville, KY $8,760,000 Record Sale
• Great Meadows, Concord MA, Record Sale
• Riverwalk, Lincoln, MA $6,400,000 Record Sale
• Rich Neck, Claiborne, MD $6.35 million Record Sale
• Ranch, Cody, WY $6,250,000 Record Sale
• Bessboro Farm, Westport, NY Record Sale
• The Coolidge Estate, Topsfield, MA Record Sale
• Sugar Hill Farm, Woodstock, VT $5.1 million Private Sale
• Uphill Farm, Woodstock, VT $4,750,000 Record Sale
• Spencer Brook, Concord, MA $4,400,000 Record Sale
• Cobb Station, Oyster, VA $4,100,000 Record Sale
• Hammett's Cove, Marion, MA $4,000,000
• Lull Brook Farm, Hartland, VT $3,950,000 Record Sale
• Deer Hill, Cohasset, MA $3,500,000
• Vaughn Hill, Bolton MA $2,858,000Record Sale
• Angus Hill, Groton, MA $2,300,000 Record Sale
• Southwind Farm, Reddick/Ocala, FL $3.4 million

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