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Understanding the Costs of Selling a Home #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #MaBuyerAgent #FirstTimeHomeBuyers
Understanding the Costs of Selling a Home #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #MaBuyerAgent #FirstTimeHomeBuyers Selling a home involves more than just finding a buyer and collecting a check. Many homeowners are surprised by the number of expenses they incur during the...
Homeowners and Buyers Reveal the Most Desired Home Trends for 2025 #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #FirstTimeHomeBuyers #MaBuyerAgent
Homeowners and Buyers Reveal the Most Desired Home Trends for 2025 MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent The housing trends that will shape our homes in the coming year have been revealed by Zillow based on new statistics. In 2025, home...
Six Tips for Cold-Weather Curb Appeal #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #FirstTimeHomeBuyers #MaBuyerAgent
Six Tips for Cold-Weather Curb Appeal MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent As temperatures drop, maintaining curb appeal becomes more challenging but no less important, especially if your home is on the market. Winter landscapes often look...
Festive Christmas Bathroom Décor Ideas for a Cozy, Holiday-Ready Home #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #FirstTimeHomeBuyers #MaBuyerAgent
Festive Christmas Bathroom Décor Ideas for a Cozy, Holiday-Ready Home MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent When decorating for Christmas, the bathroom is often overlooked. Yet, it’s a space that guests frequently use during holiday gatherings,...
How Digital Technology Helps Keep the American Dream Alive for Military Borrowers #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #FirstTimeHomeBuyers #MaBuyerAgent
How Digital Technology Helps Keep the American Dream Alive for Military Borrowers MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent This piece originally appeared in the November 2024 edition of MortgagePoint magazine, online now. Most people who have...
Buyers return to market post presidential election #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #MaBuyerAgent #FirstTimeHomeBuyers
Buyers return to market post presidential election MABA MassachusettsRealEstate MaBuyerAgent FirstTimeHomeBuyers One week after the presidential election, Redfin is reporting that buyers are returning to the market. Buyers had been sitting on the sidelines awaiting...
Could public land be the solution to Boston’s housing problem? #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #FirstTimeHomeBuyers #MaBuyers
Could public land be the solution to Boston’s housing problem? MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyers A new report looks at how using publicly owned land to develop affordable housing could mean great opportunity and a solution to the state’s...
Home-Care Costs Continue to Climb #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #FirstTimeHomeBuyers #MaBuyerAgent
Home-Care Costs Continue to Climb MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent As the typical purchase price for a home remains at an all-time high, so does the cost of caring for one. According to the Q3 Home Care Price Index (wherein analysts at...
Experts Forecast Home Sale Growth for 2025 #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #FirstTimeHomebuyers #MaBuyerAgent
Experts Forecast Home Sale Growth for 2025 MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomebuyers MaBuyerAgent The National Association of Realtors (NAR) Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said that job increases are continuing, mortgage rates are normalizing, and the worst of...
Happy Thanksgiving! #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #FirstTimeHomeBuyers #MaBuyerAgent
Happy Thanksgiving! MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It traces its origins to the early 17th century, when English Pilgrims who had...
VA Loans Empowering Veteran Homeownership #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #FirstTimeHomeBuyers #MaBuyerAgent
VA Loans Empowering Veteran Homeownership MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent More than three out of four (seventy four point five percent) home sales with Veterans Affairs (VA) loans over the past year had a zero percent down payment, and...
Increased home sales and more rate cuts coming in 2025, NAR’s Lawrence Yun predicts #MABA #MassachusettsRealEstate #FirstTimeHomeBuyers #MaBuyerAgent
Increased home sales and more rate cuts coming in 2025, NAR’s Lawrence Yun predicts MABA MassachusettsRealEstate FirstTimeHomeBuyers MaBuyerAgent Home sales will increase during the next two years, while mortgage rates likely will hover around six percent, National...
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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).