Property Management in Holderness
Holderness NH Property Management
On the shores of Squam Lake — the setting of On Golden Pond — with the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in the village and the Rattlesnake trails overlooking the water.
Local Management
Managing Property in Holderness
Holderness is the village at the heart of Squam Lake, where On Golden Pond was filmed: the channel, the Science Center and the largest share of classic Squam frontage, held tightly and often for generations. The properties we manage here are mostly second homes and family camps whose owners are elsewhere most of the year, and the work is looking after them between visits and, where the owner wants it, renting the summer weeks.
Both run from our Plymouth office, fifteen minutes west on Route 3. Weekly rentals go through our vacation rental management program; year-round homes and the caretaking side through our property management service.
Market now
22 homes for sale in Holderness on the MLS right now, a median asking price of $479,900, an average of 129 days on market.
What We Manage
What We Manage in Holderness
One local team for the year-round rentals, second homes and vacation rentals of Holderness: marketing, tenant and guest communication, vendors, maintenance, reporting and monthly direct-deposit payouts.
Squam Camps and Waterfront Second Homes
Century-old family camps, often unwinterized, and year-round waterfront houses that need someone nearby for the dock, the plow contract, the spring opening and the fall close-down. Our guide to selling a lake house or second home in New Hampshire is where that story eventually ends, and the records we keep are what a buyer will underwrite from.
Summer Weekly Rentals
For owners who rent the weeks they are not on the lake: listings, guest communication, cleaning turnovers, consumable replenishment and the NH Meals and Rentals tax, with flexible calendar blocking for your own weeks.
Year-Round Homes in the Village
The houses away from the water that lease by the year to people who work in Plymouth. Tenant screening, leases, maintenance oversight, reporting and monthly direct-deposit payouts.
Local Knowledge
Why Holderness Property Is Different
Squam is deliberately quiet and conservation-minded. Frontage is tightly held, only a handful of true waterfront properties sell in a typical year, and what trades is a mix of century-old family camps on lots that predate every rule now governing them and year-round waterfront houses that are the scarcest inventory on the lake. The Squam Lakes Association, formed in 1904, and the shoreland rules shape what an owner can do with a dock, a beach or a tree line, and a manager here has to know them.
Holderness carries the lowest property tax rate within fifteen minutes of Plymouth, $9.42 per $1,000 of assessed value in 2025; its ZIP code is 03245, and students attend Plymouth Regional High School in SAU 48. The state’s public boat ramp is in the village at the junction of Routes 3 and 113, with limited trailer parking.
Holderness Owners
Renting a Holderness Home, Honestly
Squam runs on a summer calendar, not a ski one, and the state layer applies to every weekly rental: the 8.5% Meals and Rooms (Rentals) Tax on stays under 185 consecutive days, a Meals and Rentals license before the first booking and the license number in every listing. We administer that tax for the homes we manage and confirm the town’s and any association’s rules before taking a property on.
We do not publish income projections. If you are weighing a specific Holderness property as a rental, the free short-term rental analysis looks at that property: its sleeping capacity against the septic design, the water access, the amenities guests book for and your own use of the calendar.
More on Holderness
The Holderness pages and articles an owner here will want next: the town's listings, how to sell there and what the town is like to live in.
Nearby
Nearby Towns We Manage In
Holderness is part of our Newfound & Squam Lakes service area; these are the neighboring towns we manage property in from the same offices.
Newfound & Squam Lakes
The quiet side of the Lakes Region — clear-water lakes, town beaches, and village greens minutes from Plymouth.
Ashland Property Management
The I-93 doorway to the Squam Lakes, with a walkable little downtown and a town beach on Little Squam Lake.
Bridgewater Property Management
Wooded hillsides and quiet coves along Newfound Lake’s eastern shore, midway between Bristol and Plymouth.
Bristol Property Management
Newfound Lake’s hub town — a downtown of shops and restaurants on the Newfound River, with the sandy beach at Wellington State Park just up the shore.
Hebron Property Management
A picture-book village green near Newfound Lake’s north end, beside the Grey Rocks conservation lands and Hebron Marsh.
Holderness Property Management FAQs
Straight answers on what we manage in Holderness, the town's rental rules and taxes, how owners get paid and how to get started.
Do you look after a Squam Lake camp between visits?
Yes. Caretaking a second home between visits, the plow contract, the frozen pipe, the spring opening and the fall close-down, is part of our property management service in Holderness, run from our Plymouth office fifteen minutes away.
Can I rent my Holderness house by the week in summer?
Often, subject to the town’s rules and any association or deeded-access rules, which we confirm first. Every weekly rental needs a state Meals and Rentals license and collects the 8.5% rooms tax, which our vacation rental management team administers. Our Squam Lake guide covers the lake itself.
What is the property tax rate in Holderness?
$9.42 per $1,000 of assessed value in 2025, the lowest within fifteen minutes of Plymouth. Rates reset every fall, so confirm the current number before building it into the math.
Why is Squam waterfront so hard to buy or rent?
Squam is deliberately quiet and conservation-minded; frontage is tightly held, often for generations, and only a handful of true waterfront properties sell in a typical year, many before they are widely marketed. The same scarcity is why a well-kept Squam rental does not sit empty in July.
How do I get started?
Request a consultation with the address and how you use the property. We walk through the right version of the service and the fee basis, and set it out in writing before you commit to anything.
Let's Talk
Own a Property in Holderness?
Tell us about the property and how you want to use it, and a local expert will walk through what we see: the right version of the service, the fee basis and what onboarding involves. No obligation.