NEWPORT COUNTY · EAST BAY RHODE ISLAND
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
Your home deserves the preparation most agents skip.
JOHN LONG REAL ESTATE
NEWPORT COUNTY · EAST BAY RHODE ISLAND
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
400+ TRANSACTIONS · 100+ FIVE-STAR REVIEWS · 12+ YEARS LICENSED
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BACKGROUND
Career
More than 400 transactions (200+ sales and 200+ rentals) since 2013. Those transactions span residential sales, commercial sales, off-market deals, and rentals; Zillow lists only residential resales. Residential sales to historic waterfront estates exceeding $2.5 million. Sellers primarily. Buyers as well. Both sides built on the same relationships across Newport County, East Bay Rhode Island & Southeastern Massachusetts.
Before real estate, John built careers in media and higher education. Senior Project Manager at USWeb/CKS managing NBC's digital properties. Director of New Media at Wolfgang Puck Worldwide. Leadership roles at four New England universities. Every role required the same skill: walk into something complex, learn it fast, and build something that holds.
B.A. in philosophy, with a minor in information systems, from Salve Regina University. M.P.A. from Roger Williams University. Doctoral studies in educational leadership and policy at UMass Dartmouth.
EDUCATION
BA, Philosophy (minor: Information Systems)
Salve Regina University
Master of Public Administration
Roger Williams University
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Full bio at johnlong.io/about
REAL ESTATE
Practice
Licensed in Rhode Island since 2013, and in Massachusetts. Most agents on either side of the state line cannot work the other.
Residential to historic estates exceeding $2.5 million. Rhode Island's coastal markets and southeastern Massachusetts.
Sellers primarily. Buyers as well. Both sides built on the same relationships. Every transaction gets the same preparation, whether it's a first home or a historic estate. That extends to family and close friends of past clients. Those relationships already carry the trust the work depends on. Existing clients who need to buy, whether it is your next home or an addition to the portfolio, call me first. I already know what you want and how you think. That is the advantage.
Settling an estate or downsizing a parent? That work has its own front door at Long Estate Co.
NOTABLE SALES
Selected Transactions
575 Nanaquaket Road, Tiverton
Historic Waterfront
$2,550,000
84 Shore Drive, Middletown
Waterfront
$2,295,000
9 Underwood Court, Newport
Colonial
$1,200,000
594-596 Thames Street, Newport
Commercial Mixed Use
$1,101,000
31 Coddington Wharf, Newport
Waterfront Condo
$1,100,000
TESTIMONIALS
What People Are Saying
“John’s preparation before listing was unlike anything we’d seen. He knew the market, the comps, and exactly how to position our home.”
SELLER, TIVERTON
PHILOSOPHY
Approach
John Long Real Estate. Sellers primarily. Buyers as well. Both sides built on the same relationships across southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Local knowledge built over generations, not acquired overnight.
In New England, you choose the person first. The trust, the connection, the sense that someone understands what your home means to you. That part matters. What separates a good experience from a great one is what comes after: the preparation, the process, and the discipline to get the details right.
Most of my work comes through referral. I keep a small active book and take on a limited number of listings at a time, because every one gets the same preparation, and that preparation does not scale to volume. That is the trade. It is deliberate.
Research before the sign goes up
I do the homework before the sign goes up. Pricing analysis, comparable sales, local buyer demand. The preparation happens before the photos.
Systems, not hustle
Every seller gets the same process. Staging assessment, professional photography, targeted marketing, weekly reporting. Nothing gets skipped.
Pricing discipline
The right price on day one generates more money than a high price with reductions. The data decides.
Straight answers, not scripts
You will know what is happening, why, and what comes next. I do not script conversations. I answer questions.
PREPARATION OVER PROMISES.
THE RIGHT PRICE ON DAY ONE.
$2.5M+ SOLD.
100+ FIVE-STAR REVIEWS.
WRITING
Writing
Occasional essays on selling, buying, and the market in southeastern New England.
VALUES
Where It Comes From
The family has been in this area for nearly four centuries.
Some lines back to the colonial settlement of Rhode Island in 1638. Others to the original purchasers of Nantucket in 1659. The maternal side followed the whaling industry from Nantucket to Fairhaven and New Bedford as it shifted. Another line came from Ireland in the nineteenth century to work the mills of Warwick. My grandfather served 24 years in the Massachusetts House. Letters from John and Edward Kennedy to him sit in the family archive. My father practiced law in the same county.
I work in real estate. Most of the work comes through referrals. What people get is intimate knowledge of this place and the people in it. That is the work.
Founders and immigrants. Gentry and workers. Both lines still run.
More about the family at the heritage page. The full archive lives at longfamilyarchive.com. The place where we gather each summer is at 2042main.com.
LIFE TRANSITIONS
Most homes sell because life changed.
In thirteen years on this coast, I've learned a home rarely sells in a vacuum. It sells because someone passed, a marriage ended, or it's time to let a big house go. Those are the hardest sales, and they need more than a sign in the yard.
Settling an estate.
When a parent passes, the house is the last and heaviest thing left to handle, often by someone who lives a flight away.
Downsizing a parent.
Helping someone leave the home where they raised a family, with patience and dignity.
Divorce or separation.
Selling a shared home quietly, fairly, and with a steady hand for everyone involved.
Long Estate Co.
For estates and downsizing, I built something bigger than a listing. Long Estate Co. is a dedicated, white-glove company, its own brand, that handles the whole process: sorting and deciding what stays, valuing what's inside, the move itself, and getting the home ready to sell. One trusted team. One call.
VISIT LONG ESTATE CO. →Whatever the reason you're selling, you don't have to carry it alone.
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