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My name is John A Keith. I am a real estate broker in Boston. Along with my team of agents, I help buyers and sellers of homes throughout Boston, including the South End, Back Bay, and Beacon Hill neighborhoods. |
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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The Boston Redevelopment Authority has voted to sign an agreement with a developer to build a nine-story residential building in the Theater District. The building will replace a “temporary” ticket agency currently located there. It is at the corner of Stuart St and Tremont St.
Construction should begin next year.
Complete article: Condos, eatery to [...]
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Great article by Nena Groskind in the Herald today.
If you’re going to be buying your first home, keep these things in mind:
(H)ere are my top 10 suggestions for first-time purchasers:
- Credit reports. Don’t even start looking at homes until you’re sure bad credit or errors in your credit history won’t block you from getting a [...]
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