General real estate stories
Why won’t sellers lower their prices, even though that’s probably the only way they can sell their homes? Jonathan Miller has come up with three possible reasons: Why is the seller so firm in their resolve to remain firm on price? * Sellers are used to...General real estate stories
How’s that for a headline? Grabs you, doesn’t it. I’ve been reading too many Herald / Post headlines. According to the New York Post: The son of the late Victor Kiam – the one-time owner of the New England Patriots and the man who proclaimed he...General real estate stories
Two quick pieces of news. First, Children’s Hospital has announced it is looking to buy up all of Brookline Place, having just acquired 102,000 square feet of space at the mixed-use project, for almost $60 million. The hospital is in negotiations to buy the rest...General real estate stories
One thing just about everyone can agree on is that the biggest benefit of the housing market boom over the past several years has been the increase in the homeownership rate, in the United States. After decades of relative stability, the rate of U.S. homeownership...General real estate stories
Need some advice as to whether or not you should buy now, or wait? Here you go. Until recently, home buyers bought not with an eye to a quick profit but in order to gain control over the place where they lived. As a homeowner, you don’t need the landlord’s...General real estate stories
Scotty Van Voorhis is out today with a story that, pretty much, is about nothing. A small but growing number of Boston area condo and homeowners are finding themselves “upside down.� That’s real estate parlance that describes what happens when homeowners...