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...
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... 
