This morning I read a blog post that reminds us we should root for Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl. Why you ask?
Every Red Blooded American should jump in line to support the Green Bay Packers! The Packers defeated the Chicago Bears thus earning them the opportunity to go to the Super Bowl. By [...]

As a Boston buyer’s real estate agent, I tell my buyers that when shopping for a mortgage they should not just look at the advertised interest rate but they should also look and compare closing costs.
The interest rates advertised may not apply as a buyer’s credit scores will impact the actual mortgage rate they may be offered. What [...]

I’ve spoken to several Boston real estate agents today, and the consensus seems to be that activity for Sunday open houses is up. My office conducted two open houses in Beacon Hill and both had had good showings.
What are you seeing as you attend or host open houses? I’d appreciate your thoughts and observations - whether positive or negative.

This is off topic, but I thought you might enjoy:
The quality of Taco Bell’s beef may be called into question, but their sense of humor isn’t.
Fighting back against a lawsuit that alleges the company’s beef isn’t very meaty, the Irvine-based Mexican fast food chain has launched a massive marketing campaign today –- including snarky full-page newspaper ads [...]

I Need A Landlord, STAT
By Madeleine Begun Kane
While owning a home can be nice,
It isn’t all sugar and spice:
After snow and ice falls
There’s no landlord for calls
About shov’ling. That’s part of the price.

Yesterday, the Boston Globe ran an investigative story alleging how Boston Firefighters are manipulating the system for personal gains. The following is an excerpt about one firefighter who ran a Boston real estate company on the taxpayers dime.
One firefighter, Gregory L. Burton, owes his firehouse comrades 554 shifts (shifts not hours) — nearly three years of work [...]

This Post will talk about the upcoming weeks Economic Data and how it will affect current Mortgage Rates

Here’s an excerpt from the Shiller interview:
BI: Where are we now in terms of the deflation of the housing bubble? I know the Case-Shiller numbers have started to turn down again; how much more of that is there to go?
RS: I wish I knew the answer to that. The housing market is behaving strangely. The [...]

A question I hear often is: “Should we put a deadline on our Boston real estate offer?”
I’ve received this question many times from Boston buyers, so I thought it would be a good idea to cover this in a Boston Real Estate Blog post. Whenever I write up an offer for a Boston condo, there are [...]