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...
by Demetria C. Lester | Nov 1, 2024 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, Mortgages and Mortgage Loan News
Catch-22: When You Have Millions of Vacant Homes But Also a Housing Shortage MABA MaBuyerAgent MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers In wake of the Fed’s recent rate cut last month, hesitant Americans are becoming open to the idea of entering the market to...
by Liz Hughes | Oct 30, 2024 | First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
Buying a starter home is more affordable; first annual drop since 2020 MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent It’s cheaper to buy a starter home today than it was a year ago. A new Redfin report found the amount a homebuyer needs to earn to...
by Liz Hughes | Oct 29, 2024 | Boston Real Estate Market, First Time Home Buyer, First Time Home Buyers Advice, Home Buyers, Home Prices, House Hunting, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Prices
First residential building in Suffolk Downs redevelopment opens MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent The first residential building in the Suffolk Downs redevelopment project in Revere is officially open. A grand opening ceremony was held for...
by Demetria C. Lester | Oct 28, 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
Economic, Political Uncertainty Fuels Record Low Home Turnover MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent According to a new Redfin analysis, in the first eight months of 2024, only twenty five out of every one thousand U.S. homes changed hands,...
by Demetria C. Lester | Oct 27, 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, Real Estate Prices
Effects of Lower Mortgage Rates Differ Across U.S. Markets MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent New Realtor.com data revealed that experts anticipate that mortgage rates will remain in the low six percent level through the end of the year,... 
