Strong Month for Massachusetts Housing Market in August as Sales and Prices Move Up From the Mass Association of Realtors The Massachusetts Association of REALTORS® (MAR) reported today that buying activity remained strong through late spring/early summer as single-family…
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Boston’s Best Places to Live 2013: The Boom Is Back!. Throughout Boston, the upside-down real estate market is but a distant, unpleasant memory. Bidding wars are once again erupting, houses are selling for above asking price, and some homeowners…
If you want to know when the market will hit bottom, look in the rear view mirror. According to all ways of measuring it, the downward slide of home prices in the Greater Boston area is over. Most likely…
Overall, since the recession, buyers have felt that the time was not right to buy a house. They were not confident about their jobs and income, they were having a harder time amassing a down payment and they also didn’t believe…
Wondering how the fiscal cliff will affect your real estate transactions in 2013? On Jan. 1 both the Senate and House passed H.R. 8 legislation to avert the “fiscal cliff.” The bill was signed into law by President Barack…
I am publishing this for those of you who wonder when the height of the market in the Boston area was and where home prices are in relation to the height. The height was in 2005. The bottom was…
By Michelle J. Lane The article below, supplied by MSN real estate, outlines how the aging of baby boomers will change the real estate market. I read a very prophetic article about 20 years ago that…
Or Do the Echo Boomers Offer an Elixir of Youth? By Mark Heschmeyer There has been much speculation that single-family housing prices could take a hit as increasing numbers of baby boomers downsize and leave larger homes behind as…
Highlights Despite one “noisy” month, the outlook is for the labor market this year is to remain on track with an increase in job growth over 2011 and a further acceleration in 2013. The first quarter of 2012 registered the best…
Highlights Despite one “noisy” month, the outlook is for the labor market this year is to remain on track with an increase in job growth over 2011 and a further acceleration in 2013. The first quarter of 2012 registered…