by Eric C. Peck | Nov 14, 2024 | Boston Real Estate Market, First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Available Down Payment Programs Rise in Q3 MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent Down Payment Resource (DPR) has released its Q3 2024 Homeownership Program Index (HPI) report which found the number of national homebuyer assistance programs...
by Liz Hughes | Nov 13, 2024 | Apartments, Boston Real Estate Market, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, Real Estate Market
Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum buys adjacent $22.8 million apartment building MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has purchased a sixty two unit apartment building right next door in a twenty...
by Demetria C. Lester | Nov 12, 2024 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Single-Family Rent Growth Slows Year-Over-Year MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent CoreLogic has released the latest Single-Family Rent Index (SFRI), which examines changes in single-family rent prices across the U.S. and in major cities. New...
by Liz Hughes | Nov 11, 2024 | Family, First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, House Hunting, Real Estate Market
Massachusetts named one of the safest states in America MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent For the third year in a row, Massachusetts has been named one of the ten safest states in the U.S., according to WalletHub’s 2024 Safest States in... by Eric C. Peck | Nov 10, 2024 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
FHLBanks Assist 65,000 Households Through Key Programs MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent The Federal Home Loan Banks’ (FHLBanks) affordable housing and community development support grew significantly last year, as earnings improvement...
by Patrick Regan | Nov 9, 2024 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Mortgage rates tick higher for the third straight week MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent The average thirty year year fixed mortgage rate climbed to six point forty four percent this week, Freddie Mac reported. Rates dipped to their lowest...
by Liz Hughes | Nov 8, 2024 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, House Hunting, Real Estate Market
Boston, Worcester, Springfield named hottest U.S. markets in September MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent Three Massachusetts cities – Boston, Worcester and Springfield – were named among the top twenty hottest markets in the U.S. in...
by Eric C. Peck | Nov 7, 2024 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Home Seller Profit Margins Slide in Q3 MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent ATTOM has released its Q3 2024 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that homeowners earned a 55.6% profit margin on typical single-family home and condo sales. That...
by Demetria C. Lester | Nov 5, 2024 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market
Recent Rate Drop Drives YoY Surge in Rate-and-Term Refi Activity MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent The largest percentage for any August since 2019 is found in nearly half (forty eight percent) of all listings that have been active for at...
by Demetria C. Lester | Nov 4, 2024 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, MABA, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News, Real Estate Market
Recent Rate Drop Drives YoY Surge in Rate-and-Term Refi Activity MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent In its September 2024 Market Advantage mortgage statistics report, Optimal Blue revealed that rate-and-term refinancing activity increased... 
