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Home Sale Prices in Massachusetts

Where are MA home prices headed?

by Warren Reynolds on February 3, 2012

January is the month of Janus, the classical Roman god with the power to look back into the past while also seeing future events.  Observers of the MA real estate scene should be excused if they invoked this 2-faced deity late last month, confronted as they were with contradictory news reports about where home prices [...]

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Greater Boston MA real estate rebound coming: Forbes

by Warren Reynolds on January 23, 2012

Metro-Boston is overdue for a real estate rebound, according to a report just released by Forbes, the highly-regarded publisher of business and financial news.  In the report entitled “Cities where Real Estate is Ripe for a Rebound”, Greater Boston ranked in the top 3 US metropolitan areas most likely to see a recovery in home [...]

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MA real estate 2011 year in review

by Warren Reynolds on January 1, 2012

Stability – it’s an easy thing to take for granted but in hindsight it’s a very welcome description to be able to use for the 2011 real estate market in Massachusetts.  In review, it was a decent year! Median home sale prices off lows While median prices in MA as a whole (shown in green [...]

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2012 MA economic and real estate forecast

by Warren Reynolds on December 17, 2011

We witnessed a slew of positive economic news in the middle of December.  ABC News declared during one evening broadcast aired the week of December 12 that the corner has been turned on hiring in the US and that a markedly better economy lies ahead for 2012 On December 15 it was announced that weekly [...]

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MA home sales soar 20% in November

by Warren Reynolds on December 5, 2011

MA home sales in November rose an impressive 20% over year ago levels, according to data maintained by MLSPIN, the dominant MLS in Massachusetts. The rise extends a rebound in sales volume that has developed over the past few months. If the recovery in home sales continues into 2012, it may mark the Bay State’s [...]

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Boston home prices lag improving economy

by Warren Reynolds on December 1, 2011

Real estate is a lagging economic indicator.  Home prices and property sales usually trail movements in the general economy.  When a new up cycle gets underway, real estate is typically one of the last sectors of the economy to benefit. So it was no surprise earlier this week when several upbeat developments in the US [...]

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Greater Boston home prices essentially held steady according to the August rendition of the widely-followed Case-Shiller Index for Boston released recently by Standard and Poors.  The pause in MA home prices follows a nearly 6% rise in Greater Boston home values over the prior three months, but comes at a time when some are predicting [...]

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Why good times may be ahead for America

by Warren Reynolds on October 27, 2011

A very promising future for America in the 21st Century may be taking shape, at least if some surprising trends play out as some are predicting. Another American Century? The Telegraph Media Group of the UK just published an interesting article on why we may all soon be reaping the benefits of a radically improving [...]

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MA economy improving; MetroWest unemployment at 5 percent

by Warren Reynolds on October 24, 2011

The Massachusetts unemployment rate continued its year-long decline in September, falling to 7.3 percent last month.   The Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce announced late last week that unemployment across the Bay State is now the lowest it has been since the start of 2009.  The agency said that 43,800 private sector jobs have [...]

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Greater Boston home prices leap 5% in 2 months

by Warren Reynolds on August 31, 2011

Standard & Poors announced yesterday that Greater Boston home prices rose an impressive 5% over the last two months. The startling news is contained in the non-seasonally adjusted S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston which climbed 2.3% in June, after leaping 2.7% the month before. Good news tempered by seasonally adjusted results Although the 5% [...]

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