General real estate stories
I read this somewhere, I forget where: With the residential market slow, builders and individual sellers are offering their agents more incentives than usual to move their properties. On top of standard commissions, agents may pocket thousands of dollars, travel...General real estate stories
Perhaps you want to or have to, move. But, perhaps you still don’t have a buyer for your current home. Perhaps you want to make an offer on a new place. One way to handle this is to make your offer contingent upon the sale of your current home. No seller is...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...