Boston real estate - buying a home, Selling your home
Ugh. No one likes airing dirty laundry, but when you’re talking lawsuits, you’re talking public record. I was doing some research on the Suffolk Deeds site and came across a suit filed by a potential buyer against the seller of a unit in the Ritz Carlton...Boston real estate - buying a home
Wait a minute!!! He wrote this, FIVE YEARS ago! “What you are seeing are signs of a market peak at the high end,” said Robert Shiller, an economics professor at Yale University. “First there’s a rise in inventory, and then prices fall.” If you had taken his advice in...Boston real estate - buying a home
Buyers have an opportunity this spring to get a good deal on a new home. While there is no “glut” of inventory in the downtown neighborhoods, the number of listings is high, meaning sellers will have to either be willing to negotiate or have something to...Boston real estate - buying a home
Starting today, the Boston Courant has begun listing all Sunday Open House listings in its weekly edition. The data is collected from the Multiple Listing Service Information Network, Inc. (MLSPIN) which is one of two listing services used by most Boston agents. The...Boston real estate - buying a home
I laughed when I read two stories in yesterday’s Times. The first involved a property in Manhattan that had been rented out to a gallery. The rent was $1.8 million per year. The gallery didn’t have the money for a security deposit, so it put up a painting...Boston real estate - buying a home
From today’s Globe: The reason for title insurance is that someone else may have a claim on your property, such as an unpaid contractor, an heir of the last owner, or a neighbor who thinks the fence is in the wrong place. Since a mortgage loan is secured by the...