Ruth Kennedy Sudduth

Ruth Kennedy Sudduth is a Principal of the firm and Vice Chair of LandVest’s Board of Directors. She co-leads LandVest’s Fiduciary Real Estate Services team, focusing on advisors 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 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 skill in generating competition and successful sales for special properties. Ruth has particular expertise in the sale of conserved properties: creating strong pricing to encourage private conservation efforts. She has been named One of the Top Ten Women in Real Estate, and is a speaker at global real estate forums. She divides her time between LandVest’s Boston and Woodstock offices.

A graduate of Yale University, and 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. She was raised with a land ethos, her father was director of the National Park Service and her mother just retired in her mid-eighties from the Conservation Fund. She has been active in conserving her own land and in the surrounding communities.

Ruth’s board service in addition to LandVest includes privately-held companies as well as non-profits, including: Groton School, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, 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 trust properties for major national law firms
• 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:

• 237 Long Neck Point, Darien, CT
• Hilltop Farm, Woodstock, VT
• Uphill Farm, Woodstock, VT $4,750,000 Record 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