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Crucial Questions To Ask Your #Partner #Before #Buying a #House Together
4 Crucial Questions To Ask Your Partner Before Buying a House Together If you’re hoping to buy a house with your significant other, it can be easy to get caught up in the fun stuff, like deciding the style of home you’d love (Victorian, midcentury modern, Cape Cod?)...
Should You #Buy a #Home or Keep #Renting? How To Decide
Should You Buy a Home or Keep Renting? How To Decide in 7 Steps It’s a big question with no easy answer: Should you keep renting, or is it time to think about buying a home? One of the major benefits of being a homeowner is building equity with each mortgage payment,...
How #Low-Income #Housing #Construction Influences #Home #Prices
How Low-Income Housing Construction Influences Home Prices The idea that the country could use more affordable homes is widely accepted, however, homeowners and community groups often rebuff the proposition of low-income housing within their own neighborhood,...
#Exploring the Elements of More-Livable #Neighborhoods
Exploring the Elements of More-Livable Neighborhoods Neighborhoods with more housing choices—a healthy mix of owner-occupied homes, single-family rentals, and apartments, for example — offer a better quality of life, a study shows. Harvard's Joint Center for Housing...
Remodeling Projects to Attract #HomeBuyers and Boost #PropertyValue #RealEstate
Remodeling Projects to Attract Buyers and Boost Property Value While renovation is an important aspect of the homeownership process, not all remodeling projects are created equal when it comes to boosting property value. Unless the project modernizes the appearance,...
Tips for #Homeowners From #AngieHicks #HomeBuyer #RealEstate
6 Essential Tips for Homeowners From Angie’s List Co-Founder Angie Hicks Thirty years ago, if you wanted to remodel your bathroom and you weren’t plugged in to your local network of contractors, well—you were stuck. Angie Hicks started her hugely popular ratings and...
Expect spring surge in #homesellers in #Massachusetts #HomeBuyers
MAR: Expect spring surge in home sellers in Massachusetts December is typically a cool-down month for home sales, but this year the record sales continued through the holiday season, with single-family home sales up 21.7% to 5,860 compared to a year ago, according to...
Becoming a #Homeowner Could Be #Pandemic ‘Silver Lining’
Becoming a Homeowner Could Be Pandemic’s ‘Silver Lining’ The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countless changes in every sector, and the home shopping environment is no exception. For some first-time homebuyers, many of whom had to move back into the family home during...
#Long-term #US #mortgage #rates have slipped
Long-term US mortgage rates have slipped (Jan. 28) Long-term US mortgage rates have slipped (Jan. 28) http://bos.gl/X07N9wx #realestate #mortgagerates @marealtors @gbreb #homebuyers The damage from the coronavirus pandemic on the US and global economies suppressed...
2021 #HomeBuyers want in a #kitchen #BuyerAgent #RealEstateAgent
Here’s what 2021 buyers want in a kitchen Most Realtors know that kitchens not only sell houses, buyers pay more for homes with upgraded kitchens. But what upgrades and trends will capture their eyes? The 2021 U.S. Houzz Kitchen Trends Study surveyed more than 2,000...
#HomeSales prices up 10 Percent in #Boston #MA #HomeBuyer #BuyerAgent #Broker #Massachusetts
Home Sales price up 10% in Boston Massachusetts The decline of home mortgage interest rates is continuing to fuel homebuying demand in December, pushing the median home-sale price up 13% nationwide to $334,300, according to a new report from online broker Redfin....
Transitioning From #Renter to #Homeowner #Myths #HomeBuyer #BuyerAgent
5 Myths About Transitioning From Renter to Homeowner Making the leap from being a renter to becoming a homeowner is a process that includes taking stock of your financial situation and determining whether you’re ready for such a massive responsibility. For most...
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Buying a home is like buying a car, on steroids. It’s the biggest investment you are likely to make so the stakes are incredibly high. I knew that having an agent represent me was a good idea.
What I hadn’t grasped was how important it is to find one who is not connected with the selling side in any way—through an agency that also represents sellers, as most do, at least in Mass. In researching buyer agents, I found Tom through the Mass. Assoc. of Buyer Agents (MABA).