Through the Internet, home buyers can access a nearly infinite amount of home buying guides and how-to-buy-a-home advice. The sheer volume of home buyer tips and advice can be overwhelming! And all that information may not really help you in your particular situation and sometimes is downright contradictory.
What most Massachusetts home buyers need is a good Massachusetts Realtor® to guide them through the home buying process and put the all the variables of home buying into the context of their own individual needs as purchasers.
Whether you’re a first-time home buyer, are selling your current home and buying another, or are a relocation buyer moving to Massachusetts, you’ll benefit greatly from having a trusted real estate advisor on your side who has a sound understanding of the steps ahead of you.
Having a good Massachusetts Realtor® for professional guidance and expertise will help you make the right home buying decisions.
The following posts will give you an overview of current “hot topics” in the Massachusetts real estate market from the point of view of the home buyer.
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Franklin, MA honored its active U.S. military personnel and veterans on Memorial Day with ceremonies and a parade yesterday. Good attendance despite weather Turnout was strong, despite heavy clouds and some light rain in Franklin, Massachusetts. A wreath was laid at the WWI Memorial at the Dean College campus. More commemorations were held at the [...]
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Franklin, MA opened its Public Works facility to the public May 21, 2011 for a Touch a Truck event for children. It was a great opportunity for family fun and to let the kids get hands-on experience with trucks of all description. Impressive facility The event was held at the Franklin DPW operations center located [...]
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Franklin, MA is reaping the rewards of the single stream recycling program it implemented last year. Not only is the system extremely easy for town residents to use, it’s saving Franklin lots of money as well. Compared to more onerous recycling programs used by some other towns in Massachusetts, Franklin’s single stream recycling is a [...]
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You might have missed recent news reports detailing positive developments in the Massachusetts economy. This good news has been easy to miss because so much of the news media’s focus over the past few weeks has been on the royal wedding, the death of Osama Bin Laden and continued gloomy reports on the US housing [...]
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Greater Boston home prices took a tumble in the most recent release of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. The decline in Boston home prices is encouraging news for those skeptical local home buyers who continue to sit on the fence this spring hoping for lower Boston home values ahead. 2 versions of the Case-Shiller Index [...]
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It would take 10 and a half months for all the single family homes currently for sale in Massachusetts to find buyers according to data maintained by MLSPIN, the largest MLS system in the Bay State. That’s a nearly 17% jump in housing inventory levels from last year at this time. 2010 housing inventory reduced [...]
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Mortgage rates are supposed to rise in 2011, according to the general consensus of the finance industry at the start of the year. But here we are more than a quarter of the way through the year and interest rates remain essentially unchanged. Does anyone really know where rates are headed? We’ve seen recent predictions [...]
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Greater Boston home prices rose in January, according to figures released last week by Standard and Poors. 2nd monthly rise in a row The seasonally-adjusted S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston rose 0.5% in January, marking the second consecutive month that home sale prices increased in the metro Boston area. Due to a two month [...]
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February’s brutal weather appears to have played havoc with the Massachusetts real estate market. Home sales activity in MA last month plummeted as the winds howled and the snow and ice mounted. Worse than 2009 Closed home sales volume in February fell below the previous low for the last decade seen back in February 2009 [...]
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Greater Boston home sale prices are stabilizing and even rising a little according to seasonally adjusted home price data released this week by Standard & Poors. Seasonally adjusted home sale prices in the metro area rose 0.8% in December, the most recent month covered by the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston. First rise in [...]
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