Waterfront antiques, beach houses a short walk from the sand, cottages in Rockport’s lanes. Three are open to book on this site today; the full collection is on atlanticvacationhomes.com.
The booking sites add a traveler fee of up to 15% to the same home you can book here. Book with us and that fee stays in your pocket, you get our Best Price Guarantee, and the person who answers the phone knows how many steps it is from the driveway to the front door.
I was born and raised in Gloucester and grew up in this business; my mother Carole built it from the ground up. I came home after college and a career in sports management to carry what she built into its next chapter, and I have worked every role here, from reservations to maintenance.
What has not changed is the promise: a home that is clean, fully equipped and exactly as described, a local team you can reach, and the best price when you book with us directly. Call us at (978) 290-4331 or write to info@atlanticvacationhomes.com with any question at all. We would love to show you our Cape Ann.
Jonathan Fonvielle
President, Atlantic Vacation Homes
Pack Lighter
A company that belongs to the place
Through our Pack Lighter program, guests leave unopened food behind and we deliver it to The Open Door food pantry in Gloucester. Our staff volunteer with the Rotary Club of Gloucester, Action, Inc., the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce and Discover Gloucester; retired linens go to Cape Ann Animal Aid and the Beverly High School culinary program; and we partner with Triangle, Inc. to employ young people and adults with disabilities.
Affiliations
Partners and memberships
In motion
A few seconds on Cape Ann
The river at River Watch, the beach from Over By Good Harbor, Rockport harbour.
Cape Ann is a little under an hour from Boston and Logan Airport by car, up Route 128 to the A. Piatt Andrew Bridge. The MBTA commuter rail runs from North Station to Manchester, Gloucester and Rockport, and the CATA buses and the Rockport shuttle cover the towns in summer. Head north along the coast for Newburyport and Plum Island; south for Beverly and Salem.
Sobre Nós
Mais de Quatro Décadas de Hospitalidade em Cape Ann
Who we are
Rooted in the communities we serve
Atlantic Vacation Homes is a family-owned, full-service vacation rental management and real estate company. We handle every part of a rental, from marketing and reservations to housekeeping, commercial laundry and maintenance, for homeowners who trust us with their houses and for guests who come back year after year. We operate as a division of AVH Realty, Inc., a residential brokerage, so whether you are buying, selling, renting out or visiting, you are talking to the same people.
Our story
It started with a question in an antique shop
In the mid-1980s Carole Sharoff was running an antique store in Lanesville. Visitors would stop in, fall in love with the character of Cape Ann, and ask the same question: do you know anywhere we could stay? She did. With her neighbours’ trust, Carole began connecting guests to the kinds of homes that felt like Cape Ann at its best, and that informal arrangement grew into Atlantic Vacation Homes. Carole became a Vacation Rental Management Association board member, a VRM Intel Crusader Award recipient and a licensed broker; today the company is led by her son Jonathan, with Carole’s continued guidance as broker and advisor.
The people behind the promise
Meet the team
Jonathan Fonvielle
President
Gloucester, MA
Born and raised in Gloucester and part of this business since childhood. After Elon University and a career in professional sports management in the South, Jonathan came home to carry what Carole built into its next generation. He has worked every role in the company and leads it today, when he is not with the Mystic River Rugby Club, where he served as Club President.
Carole Sharoff
Founder · Licensed Broker · Advisor
Lanesville, Gloucester
Carole founded Atlantic Vacation Homes in the mid-1980s and spent four decades building it into one of the North Shore’s most respected property management and real estate companies. A VRMA board member, VRM Intel Crusader Award recipient and Paul Harris Award honoree from the Gloucester Rotary Club, she remains our licensed broker and strategic advisor.
Michelle Fonvielle · Vice President & Advisor
The standards behind every stay
Michelle spent more than a decade at Atlantic Vacation Homes building the operational standards that define our guest experience today: the commercial laundry, the inspection after every clean, the Welcome Kit. As Past Chair of both the Vacation Rental Housekeeping Professionals and the Vacation Rental Management Association, she shaped industry practice well beyond Cape Ann and helped develop the VRMA’s SafeHome program.
Our commitment
To our guests, and to our community
As a hospitality business we welcome a global, multicultural community every day, and we actively promote an inclusive, respectful and safe culture for our employees, guests, homeowners, partners and suppliers. As a locally owned company we give back where we live and work: the Pack Lighter food drive for The Open Door, volunteer hours with the Rotary Club of Gloucester, Action, Inc. and Discover Gloucester, linen donations to Cape Ann Animal Aid, and a partnership with Triangle, Inc. that employs young people and adults with disabilities.