by Clare Trapasso | Aug 25, 2020 | First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, Real Estate Agent
Home Prices Are Still Shooting Up, but Is This a Bubble About To Burst? The nation’s surging home prices don’t seem to care about the recession the country is mired in. They can’t be bothered by the deadly coronavirus pandemic or the double-digit unemployment that’s...
by Boston.com Real Estate | Aug 23, 2020 | Home Buyers
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by Kerrie Kennedy | Aug 23, 2020 | First Time Home Buyer, MABA, Real Estate Market
Existing-home sales in July soar past pre-pandemic levels Marking two straight months of gains, existing-home sales continued to rise in July, according to the latest data from the National Association of Realtors. Total completed transactions, including single-family...
by Jacob Passy | Aug 22, 2020 | Boston Real Estate Market, Real Estate Agent
Existing-Home Sales Soar at a Record Pace in July as Americans Make Up for Lost Time—but Two Big Caveats Remain The numbers: Sales of previously-owned homes in the U.S. rose 24.7% between June and July to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5.86 million, the National...
by Andrew Stahl | Aug 21, 2020 | Home Buyers, Real Estate Market
Melrose, MA and Worcester, Massachusetts make list of hottest ZIP codes in 2020 Worcester, Massachusetts Millennial homebuyers are moving away from urban centers to find affordable prices and space to raise a family, according to Realtor.com’s 2020 Hottest ZIP Codes....
by Andrew Stahl | Aug 21, 2020 | Boston Real Estate Market, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, MABA, Real Estate Market
Boston, Massachusetts falls behind nation with 1.2 Percent decrease in Home Prices The median sale price for luxury homes listed on Redfin nationwide rose 1.2% year over year for the three months ending July 31, to $825,000, according to a report released earlier this...
by Timothy Inklebarger | Aug 20, 2020 | Buyer Agents, Home Buyers, New Construction, Real Estate Market
Home Builder confidence reaches record high in August Builder confidence for newly built single-family homes matched its record high set in December 1988, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. The index jumped six...
by Erica Sweeney | Aug 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, Real Estate Agent, Real Estate Prices
How To Fight an Eviction During the Coronavirus Pandemic Eviction may soon become a reality for millions of American renters. In March, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act prohibited landlords from evicting tenants for nonpayment of rent in...
by Jillian Pretzel | Aug 19, 2020 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Real Estate Agent
Why I’m Grown-Up and Employed, but Still Need Mom to Co-Sign on My Home When I got my first apartment after college, I needed my mom to co-sign my lease. The landlord required proof that I made three times the rent, but since I wasn’t making nearly enough, I called...
by Christina Hughes Babb | Aug 19, 2020 | Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Agent
Reverse Mortgage Insights A June dip follows a spike last May and still accounted for the second highest endorsement tally in over a year. Total endorsements for home equity conversion mortgages declined by 16.4% during June, according to the newly published HECM...
