Whoa! This is a good one:
From Inman News, by way of the Boston Globe:
DEAR BOB: We had a sales contract to sell our house. The buyer was supposed to pay a deposit into a trust account with the realty office representing the buyer. We expected to close with no problem.
But a few days after [...]

If you’re just getting started in the process to buy a home, you might not have thought about this potential problem.
When you buy a home, you pretty much are buying the physical structure as well as anything nailed down or attached to the property.
A refrigerator is not nailed down.
Neither is a washer. Or a [...]

Apparently, it was a slow news day.
My blog, as well as other real estate blogs, were profiled in Sunday’s Boston Globe.
I felt it was a great article. There are some good blogs out there. It really helps buyers to have access to as much information as possible. Blogs written by agents, mortgage [...]

I love this joke, perhaps the only one ever told about economists:
Economists are great, they’ve accurately predicted nine of the past five recessions!
Eh, so I can’t tell a joke so well.
Karl Case, uber-economist (?), professor at Wellesley College, and co-creator of the much-respected and often-quoted S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Indices spoke at the conference (twice).
He’s [...]

Suddenly, I’m an expert on economics?
Sort of.
All I want to say is, a lot of national economic data will be released this week, which will give us a better of idea of where our economy is headed.
Or, the data will all contradict each other, making it more difficult to figure out whether we’re headed toward [...]

I attended the Boston 2012 symposium on Thursday & Friday. It was awesome. There was a tour of several of Boston’s neighborhoods, on Thursday. We saw new low- and moderate-income based housing developments, some of which were financed by the city, state and federal governments, some built with private funds. The [...]

Just a strange turn of events.
The Animal Rescue League opened a $7 million facility in Pembroke, five years ago. The expansive 9-acre property includes the league’s state-of-the-art shelter and a single-family house built for the league’s director of operations and his family, and an adjoining 60-acre nature sanctuary and dog walk.
But, now, the league [...]

How did you find your last rental apartment in Boston?
On craigslist? On the internet? By word-of-mouth?
Or, by using a rental agent and paying a fee?
If it was the last choice, I feel for you. I feel bad for you, actually.
I used to be a rental agent, but I just hated it so, [...]

I hope this series is as good as I think it’s going to be.
HGTV’s new reality series, “Bought and Sold� premieres tonight, Sunday, April 29th, at 10 PM.
Former actors, models and even pro-sports players adopt a second career as real estate agents, and stop at nothing to outmaneuver other agents to get a listing, and [...]

There was an editorial in the Globe the other day that seemed kind of unfair.
It involved the high cost of housing within the city of Boston, and how, in the newspaper’s view, the Menino administration had failed its residents.
Boston … is not, however, an urban success story. More than 300 qualified buyers at [...]