Great website with data on the Boston housing market.
You can find out average list prices now, versus three, six, and twelve months ago, as well as trends in prices and inventory levels.
The more information, the better. I hope he adds median list prices, as well as sold data, as these are as important.
Also, the […]
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Suppose you’re about to turn 65 you’re going to retire, and you have a lot of money. Or even better, you’re turning 62, 57, or 55 and have enough set aside to retire, now (I’ll be 80 years old before I retire, based on my financial advisor’s calculations).
Do you want to move? Where? […]
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How’s that for a headline? I should be a copy writer.
East Boston has always seemed quite remote to most people. Either that, or people thought of it as one big airport (which is kind of is, isn’t it?).
There are many new developments going up in East Boston. As well, many triple deckers […]
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The following information is from the local MLS database, as of January 28, 2006.
Total # of condos for sale: 2350
Average # of days on market: 84
36 properties were sold (closed) last week.
Lowest priced condo in city of Boston: $124,900
Median priced condo in city of Boston (23 listings): $389,000
Highest priced condo in city of Boston: $13,995,000
Average […]
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Thank god we don’t have many co-ops in Boston. I’d go crazy, as a real estate agent.
One of the unique things about a co-op is, as you may know from celebrity cases in the news, the co-ops board gets to decide whether or not to let a buyer buy. It’s ridiculous. In […]
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Below is a report of sales and listing activity for the past week. Information is derived from LINK, the online database that is used by most Boston real estate agents.
New listings: 143
Back on market (listings that went under agreement but deals fell through): 20
Price changes (almost always downward, but some go up): 149
Under agreements: 94
Off […]
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Las Vegas has experienced a bit of a slowdown in real estate sales. So much so that several development projects have been canceled, outright.
Suppose you put down a deposit on a condo project, months before the developer broke ground, and then suppose the developer changed his mind, and decided to not build, at all.
What […]
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Real estate agents have often used colloquisms when describing properties (”quaint” and “cosy” really mean “small”, “put finishing touches on” means “it’s a dump”).
Now, the general public has started using such phrases. People argue whether the real estate market will “cool”, “pause”, or experience a “meltdown”.
A linguist has even put together his own index, […]
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