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Signs You May Not Be Ready To Buy a #Home #HomeBuyer #RealEstate #Broker #MA
5 Telltale Signs That You May Not Be Ready To Buy a Home If the dream of owning a home is on your bucket list, you’ve likely combed through listings, narrowed down your home preferences, and even attended a few open houses. But while you might be mentally ready to buy...
Second Home vs. #InvestmentProperty #HomeBuyer #BuyerAgent #Massachusetts
Second Home vs. Investment Property: What’s the Difference? You hear these terms thrown around all the time: Second home, investment property, vacation home, rental property. But is there any real difference among them? And does it even matter what you call it? As it...
Mistakes When #Buying a #Home Sight Unseen can you Avoid them? #HomeBuyer #BuyerAgent #Massachusetts
Avoid These 5 Mistakes When Buying a Home Sight Unseen Buying a home sight unseen might seem like a massive gamble: plunking down hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of dollars on a property you’ve never set foot in, your fingers crossed it looks just like the...
#Boston #MA single-family #HomePrices up double digits #HomeBuyer #RealEstate #Massachusetts
Boston Massachusetts single-family home prices up double digits Homeowners nationwide enjoyed a more than 8% increase in home prices over the last 12 months ending in November, making it the largest year-over-year increase since March 2014, according to the CoreLogic...
Pending Home Sales Fall for a Third Straight Month #HomeBuyer #BuyerAgent #MA
Pending Home Sales Fall for a Third Straight Month as Buyers Struggle To Gain Traction The numbers: Contract signings for home sales fell for the third consecutive month in November — another indication of the challenges prospective home buyers are facing. The index...
House Failed First Real Estate Inspection What I Did To Get Through Escrow #HomeBuyer #HomeInspection
My House Failed Its First Real Estate Inspection—Here’s What I Did To Get Through Escrow When I was buying my first house, everything seemed too good to be true—at least at the start of the process. I found a home within a couple of weeks, the price was fabulously...
What Will the #RealEstate #HousingMarket Look Like in 2021? #HomeBuyer
What Will the Housing Market Look Like in 2021? This year has been an intense one for all industries, but the housing market has managed to come out on top. As 2021 draws nearer, Zillow offers some key trend predictions that could lead to shifts in the market next...
Now Is the Time to Be a #Homebuyer #HomeBuying #BuyerAgent #RealEstate
Now Is the Time to Be a Homebuyer There’s no doubt, 2020 was a seller’s market when it came to home buying. Most houses sold at or above list price, sales were quick, and people were looking for change thanks to the monotony of pandemic life. But even though sellers...
#RealEstate #HousingMarket Will Stay Hot in the New Year #HomeBuyer #RealEstateMarket
Housing Market Will Stay ‘Hot’ in the New Year There’s no shortage of people ready, willing, and able to buy homes, according to the latest report from Redfin. In fact, the four-week period ending on December 13 has shown us some record highs and lows for the housing...
Has COVID-19 #Pandemic Changed Selling a House Forever? #HomeBuyer #BuyerAgent #BuyerBroker #Boston #Massachusetts
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Forever Changed the Process of Selling a House In normal circumstances, selling a house involves interacting with a lot of people. In-person house tours, roundtable closings, and handshakes are all standard formalities. But in a world...
Merry Christmas to all the #MA #HomeBuyers and #RealEstate Professionals
Merry Christmas to all the Massachusetts Home Buyers and Real Estate Professionals from MABA.
How Older Homeowners Are Shaping the Housing Market #Homebuyer
Households aged 65 and over are the fastest-growing demographic, according to data in the “State of the Nation’s Housing” report published by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS). The new report found the number of households aged 65 and over...
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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).