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#Homebuyers want green #homes #GreenHomes #BuyerBroker
Homebuyers: ‘We want green homes’ In a rapidly changing world, the need for environmentally sustainable practices has never been more important. That’s according to a new study published by Growth from Knowledge, which found that among other things, COVID-19 has not...
Hidden Problems in a #Bathroom You Might Not Spot on Video Tour #HomeBuyer
13 Hidden Problems in a Bathroom You Might Not Spot on Video It might be easy to gloss over the bathroom when you’re touring a home in person—but it’s even easier to do so when you’re viewing it by video, as many of us are doing in the age of the coronavirus. It’s a...
Income Needed to Comfortably Purchase a Home
Salary Needed to Comfortably Purchase a Home The experts at finder.com just released a telling report, highlighting just how much hopeful homebuyers in certain cities in the U.S. would have to earn per year in order to make their dream abode their own. As everyone...
#Housing #Inventory Dips to Lowest Level in Over 10 Years #HomeBuyer #BuyerBroker
Housing Inventory Dips to Lowest Level in 10+ Years A new forecast from Zillow predicts home sales will peak during the autumn and begin to moderate into 2021, but will remain above pre-pandemic levels. The coming months will also see home prices remaining higher....
#Condo vs. #Apartment vs. #House #Home #Homebuyer #RealEstate #Broker #Massachusetts
What Is a Condo? Condo vs. Apartment vs. House, Explained Table of contents: What is a condo? How condos work How much are condo fees? What is an assessment? Condo vs. apartment: What’s the difference? Condo vs. house: What’s the difference? How to buy a condo...
#Homeowners Not #Refinancing Stand to Lose Thousands #Refi #Refinance #Homebuyers #RealEstate #Agent
Homeowners Who Haven’t Refinanced Stand to Lose Thousands According to a recently published Zillow report, mortgage rates are still hovering at all-time lows. This means that those homeowners who have not yet taken the plunge and refinanced their mortgages are missing...
Recent #HomesSales in #Boston #Massachusetts and #Cambridge #MA #Homebuyer
Recent homes sales in Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, MA (Sept. 30) Two-family Conventional, built in 1915, 2,889 square feet, 10 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 9,250-square-foot lot. $749,900 The post Recent homes sales in Boston and Cambridge (Sept. 30)...
3 bedroom #Somerville #MA #condo with private roof deck #homebuyer #buyeragent #homeforsale
Home of Week: A 3-bedroom Somerville, Massachusetts condo with private roof deck Sometimes a single element gives silent voice to the transformation undergone when a 110-year-old house is remade into two 21st-century condos. In this two-floor unit near Somerville’s...
Mistakes You Might Make Moving From City to Suburbs #RealEstate #HomeBuyer #Massachusetts
4 Huge Mistakes You Might Make Moving From a City to the Suburbs There comes a time in many people’s lives—usually when the words “baby” or “school district” become a regular part of the vocabulary—when people flee the glamorous city to the charming suburbs. Add the...
Two Thirds of #Homebuyers Report Receiving #DownPayment Assistance #BuyerAgent #RealEstate
Two Thirds of Homebuyers Report Receiving Down-Payment Help About four in 10 homebuyers of all ages are relying on help from family members, friends, employers or a down payment assistance program to get a mortgage for their home purchase. That's from a new...
Price of a #SingleFamily #home in #MA shot up 14 Percent #HomeBuyer #BuyerAgent
Sorry, buyers. Price of a single-family home in Massachusetts shot up 14% In Greater Boston, the median sales price of a single-family home hit $720,000 in August, while the cost of a condo reached $568,000. In Greater Boston itself, prices are up, but sales are down....
College #neighborhoods see #rents drop dramatically #Apartments #Students #RentalIncome #InvestmentProperty
College neighborhoods see rents drop dramatically Until February, college neighborhoods saw average rents growing 4.7 percent annually. In Kendall Square it is as much as $400 less, according to a new report, and landlords are offering incentives on top of that. |...
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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).