by Larissa Runkle | Nov 6, 2020 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, House Hunting, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News
Self-Employed and Applying for a Mortgage? Here’s What’s Changed Since COVID-19 The gig economy has blown up in the past few years, with more and more people choosing to work as freelancers, either by starting their own businesses, or by picking up nonsalaried jobs...
by Zayd Muhammad | Nov 5, 2020 | Home Buyers, Real Estate Market
Homeownership down slightly but not for Millennials Although the homeownership rate dropped slightly for Americans in the third quarter of 2020, people under 35 had a 2.7 percentage point increase to 40.2%, according to the National Association of Realtors. First-time...
by Sarah Kuta | Nov 5, 2020 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Real Estate Agent
What’s the Best Home Insurance Company for You? We’ve all seen those catchy insurance commercials featuring Geico’s talking gecko, Jake from State Farm, Flo from Progressive, Allstate’s destructive “mayhem” dude, the Aflac duck. Need we go on? (We didn’t think so.) As...
by Erica Sweeney | Nov 4, 2020 | Coronavirus, Home Buyers, Real Estate Agent, Single Real Estate Agency
Why This Winter’s ‘Slow’ Home-Selling Season May Be Hotter Than Ever Winter is traditionally real estate’s slow season. Between the cold weather and the holidays, the housing market typically plunges into a hibernation of sorts, with both buyers and sellers shelving...
by Timothy Inklebarger | Nov 3, 2020 | Coronavirus, Real Estate Market
It might come as no surprise that New York City ranks as the top metro area for outward migration, and many of them are setting their sights on Boston, according to a new Redfin report. The report, which analyzed the migration patterns of Redfin users across 87 U.S....
by Boston.com Real Estate | Nov 2, 2020 | Home Buyers
Home of Week: In Braintree, traditional outside, visionary inside The kitchen remodel won a design award and was featured in Globe Magazine. A designer upped the wow factor in this far-from-cookie-cutter Colonial in Braintree. See more and check the latest listings at...
by Sarah Kuta | Oct 31, 2020 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Real Estate Agent
How Does Home Insurance Work? How To File an Insurance Claim, and More Nobody expects the worst to happen—a hailstorm, a break-in, someone gets burned at your backyard barbecue—but unfortunately, these types of accidents can and do happen. And that’s when home...
by Jacob Passy | Oct 31, 2020 | Real Estate Agent
As Pending Home Sales Fall in September, Concerns Emerge About a Housing Rebound The numbers: The index of pending home sales dropped 2.2% in September compared with the previous month, breaking a four-month streak of increases, the National Association of...
by Boston.com Real Estate | Oct 30, 2020 | Home Buyers, Home Prices
US, Boston markets have this in common: Pending home sales down But “we’re still likely to end the year with more homes sold overall in 2020 than in 2019.” It may be a sign that elevated asking prices and lean supply are tempering the boom despite...
by Cristin Espinosa | Oct 30, 2020 | Home Buyers, Home Prices, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Home Prices: An Unseasonal Summer Spike The newly released national Case-Shiller Index shows that August housing market trends saw a huge shift from previous years. The demand for homes in August was high and price growth soared in most cities. Although sales volumes...
