Emma Noonan, REALTOR
Fontaine Family
2025 Rookie of the Year
Buyers and sellers from Lewiston and Auburn through Brunswick, Lincoln County, the Sebago Lakes region, Standish and Buxton, Portland and Saco. Old homes, waterfront and camps, mobile homes and more, handled properly.
Buying, selling, downsizing, relocating, lake property and rural land. Maine asks a specific set of questions that most of the country does not, and the answers are the job.
She is a native of Steep Falls and lives in Topsham, holds a degree from the University of Southern Maine, and came into real estate from customer service. In 2025 she was named Rookie of the Year at Fontaine Family and joined the Fontaine Ambassadors Council.
Most agent websites list every town within an hour and call it a service area. This one does not. The towns here are the ones she actually works, and the ones she does not cover are named too.
An honest condition read rather than a sales tour. Wiring, lead, the oil tank, the well, the septic, the road. Then an offer built on structure and timing instead of price alone.
Before you commitPricing prepared by hand in towns where there may be twenty sales a year, a prioritised preparation list including what to skip, and the inspection negotiation that usually decides the outcome.
How a sale is wonTwo transactions that have to be timed against each other, usually involving a house somebody has lived in for decades. A patient pace, and no pressure to sign anything.
Selling firstShoreland zoning, legal non-conforming camps, septic siting on small waterfront lots, camp road maintenance agreements, and what it really costs to use a camp year round.
Before you buyPre-approval is a different thing from pre-qualification. Ask about MaineHousing programmes while you are there.
Commute, winter, services and what the budget actually buys there. This is the decision most people rush.
Every showing comes with what is wrong as well as what is right.
Timeline, deposit, contingencies and settlement date move sellers and several cost you nothing.
Home inspection, plus water, septic and anything the house argues for. No waiving.
Appraisal, underwriting, final walkthrough and closing. Remote if you are not here yet.
Most of what moves a Maine buyer is cheap and visible. The preparation happens before the launch, because the first two weeks decide the outcome.
In housing stock this old an inspection report is long by definition. Knowing which findings are genuinely expensive and which are cosmetic is worth more to a seller than a slightly higher list price.
Cumberland, York, Androscoggin, Oxford, Lincoln, Knox, Kennebec, Franklin and Waldo. Twenty-six of those towns have a guide of their own, from Lewiston and Auburn through Brunswick and Topsham, Gardiner and Jefferson, out to Standish, Buxton, Portland and Saco.
Her highest-volume market. Mill-era stock, multi-units, and real inventory under $300,000.
Closings hereWhere the midcoast begins. Bowdoin College, Brunswick Landing, and the best walkable downtown in the area.
Closings hereThe Sebago and Saco corridor. Land, water, wells and septic, with Portland still reachable.
Core marketA real downtown on the Kennebec, with some of the better value in central Maine.
Closings hereDamariscotta Lake, camps and acreage in Lincoln County. One of her most-closed towns.
Closings hereNext door to L/A, with more land for the money and an easier run to Brunswick.
Core marketEmma Noonan is a REALTOR with Fontaine Family - The Real Estate Leader, serving Southern and Central Maine, and the 2025 Rookie of the Year at her brokerage. Her core markets are Lewiston and Auburn, Brunswick and Topsham, Lisbon and Sabattus, Gardiner, Jefferson, and the Sebago and Saco corridor towns of Standish, Buxton and Hollis. She represents both buyers and sellers.
Nine Maine counties: Cumberland, York, Androscoggin, Oxford, Lincoln, Knox, Kennebec, Franklin and Waldo. The towns with a guide of their own are Lewiston, Auburn, Lisbon, Sabattus, Greene, Turner, Poland, Durham, Brunswick, Topsham, Bath, Bowdoinham, Richmond, Freeport, Gardiner, Hallowell, Augusta, Monmouth, Jefferson, Standish, Buxton, Hollis, Gorham, Windham, Gray and Saco.
Both, and at the same time more often than not. Buyers get an honest condition read on older housing and full diligence on rural property. Sellers get pricing prepared by hand in markets where the comparable sales are thin.
Two things. The housing stock is among the oldest in the country, which brings wiring, lead paint, oil tanks and sills into almost every transaction. And most rural property is on a private well and septic, which means testing for arsenic and uranium as well as bacteria, and establishing whether a replacement septic system could even be sited.
Nothing, and there is nothing to sign first. If the answer is that you should wait, she will tell you that.
Nothing to sign and no cost to ask. If the answer is that you should wait, she will say so.
