Today, the Banker and Tradesman reported that RE/MAX will open its first micro-real estate office in a Springfield Stop & Shop supermarket. As reported: RE/MAX of New England will open its first “micro real estate office” inside a Springfield Stop & Shop supermarket. The RE/MAX office inside the Stop & Shop store at 1600 Boston [...]

Today, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that home sales were down in January compared to January 2010. Meanwhile, chief economist Lawrence Yun appears to be changing his tune a bit by portraying the recent housing market in more realistic terms, well at least compared to some of his past statements: “While home buyers over [...]

Why 2011 May Be the End of the Housing Crash

Did you know. The last sale at Boston W Residences was 70 days ago.

  I know of a Boston South End condo conversion building for sale in Boston’s South End. If you’d like more information on this stand alone building please call me at 617-720-5454. You can also reach me via email realtyford@yahoo.com.

Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. -Peter Lynch No - this isn’t why I own  a Boston real estate company.

Yesterday I was bored, this happens to me when there’s no more football games on, so I took a walk to our local convenient store to pick up the newspaper, as my luck we have it, the only one left was the New York Post (I didn’t think so many people still purchased the local newspapers the old fashion way.) Anyway, here’s some [...]

Tonight the annual Oscar Awards will be presented, so I thought I would present the  MLS Oscar listing awards. The envelope please for the MLS photo award: The winning Boston Real Estate office: CFS, Realty  MLS # 71047564 Location: 30 Wabon Street, Dorchester. The architectural design award:

Today, I just had an interesting conversation at lunch with the property manager/in house maintenance manager for 21 Beacon Street, the luxury condo building next to the Massachusetts Capital. What did I learn? Well,  Boston condo buyers you may want to stay away from this Boston luxury building  at 21 Beacon Street. Why you ask? According to my [...]

The Boston Homes newspaper reported that January sales of Boston proper condos dropped in year-over-year and on a month-to-month basis, but condo sales prices increased in some of Boston’s most desirable neighborhoods. LINK reported that just 170 Boston condos sold in January. compared to 210 a year ago. On a month-to-month basis the news wasn’t [...]