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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Happy Home Hunting!
From the category archives:
While both December and January saw increased home sales in Massachusetts, the inventory of homes for sale in MA rose in February as home buyers fought cold temperatures and deep snow to keep the Massachusetts real estate market moving forward. Don’t read too much into inventory rise The supply of available homes in MA this [...]
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Many people discover their roof has an ice dam only when they see water dripping inside their home from a ceiling. That’s a bad feeling! Your first impulse may be to immediately call a roofer to have your roof fixed. But ice dams are caused by poor roof ventilation or improper insulation, not by faulty [...]
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January home sales in Massachusetts rose 6.7% from year-ago levels, making last month the best January in the Commonwealth since 2007 in terms of single family home sales volume. The January uptick in single family home sales in MA came on the heels of a widely-reported sales surge in the state last December. Price decline [...]
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January may mark the start of a new year, but for the real estate market in Massachusetts the first month of 2011 feels less like a new beginning and more like the “same ole same ole” in terms of the supply of homes for sale in MA. Home inventory levels on the rise The inventory [...]
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In choosing which city or town in which to live, many prospective home buyers don’t analyze one important demographic: the educational achievements of the community’s residents. In fact, home buyers can use a community’s percentage of college graduates as a sort of a shortcut to making a better home buying decision. Why live in one [...]
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Home sales in Massachusetts were anemic in November, mirroring weak real estate activity across the US. CNNMoney.com recently announced that today’s lagging home sales, attractive home prices and historically low mortgage rates present prospective buyers with “some of the best home-buying conditions in years.” As you’ll read below, some local buyers acted in November to [...]
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Greater Boston single family home sale prices have declined almost 2% since peaking last May, according to data issued yesterday by Standard and Poors. Decline follows end of Federal tax credits The 1.92% drop in the seasonally adjusted version of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston has come on the heels of the expiration [...]
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Looking for something fun for the kids to do for Thanksgiving besides just watching the Macy’s Parade and football on TV? Finding family Thanksgiving fun is not that easy to do: the Thanksgiving holiday is focused on reflection, appreciation for the good in your life, feasting, and family. So unlike Halloween, Christmas and Easter there [...]
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Greater Boston home sale prices drifted just a bit lower in August 2010, posting a mild 0.3% drop. The essentially steady performance of metro Boston home prices was announced earlier this week by Standard and Poors in its monthly release of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for the Boston metro area. Pronounced seasonal pattern of [...]
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Massachusetts’ unemployment rate plummeted in September to its lowest point in more than 12 months. The sharp drop in the jobless rate, which fell to 8.4 percent in September from 8.8 percent in August, was the greatest monthly decline since 1976 according to the state’s Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. The Bay State’s [...]
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