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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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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by Warren Reynolds on November 3, 2011
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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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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by admin on July 27, 2011
Massachusetts home sellers finally got some good news this week as Standard & Poors announced a nearly one percent rise in the seasonally adjusted S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston. The gain in the Index for May comes on the heels of declines over the past several months. MA home prices face tough going in [...]
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What may be looked back on years from now as the home-buying opportunity of a generation continues in Massachusetts real estate. MA home prices and home sale activity keep slipping in 2011, reflecting weak demand amid entrenched uncertainty about jobs and the national economy. This under-demand creates a great opening for home buyers to scoop [...]
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If you’ve been wondering when the Massachusetts real estate market will start rising, 2012 looks to be the year. That’s the consensus among 111 housing and economic experts surveyed recently by the financial and technology company Macromarkets. The survey calls for MA home prices to fall in 2011, followed by higher real estate prices in [...]
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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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by Warren Reynolds on April 3, 2011
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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by Warren Reynolds on February 24, 2011
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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