This can be a glass half-full or half-empty story, but it depends how you look at it. The Boston Business Journal has an item on a study by Core Logic that reports that 16 percent of Boston homeowners have mortgage values that exceed their house value — another 3.5% or so are close to even.
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The Boston Business Journal reports on the most recent data compiled by CoreLogic on the local residential real estate market. Year over year for December 2010, CoreLogic reports that in the Boston-Quincy metro area, values were up 6.16 percent. For the 2010 up to Nov. 30, values over all in this area were up 4.65 [...]

In December 2010, economist Karl Case had a lecture regarding the economy and the housing market, hosted by LINK.  See the full presentation here!

Again, there’s definitely some light at the end of this long tunnel. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Beige Book report sums up the regional economy as “generally positive, albeit moderate.” Among the sectors reporting steady though moderate growth: manufacturing, retail and business services. Of course, residential real estate remains “in the doldrums” but commercial [...]

The number of single-family homes put under agreement in December was up 5.3 percent compared to the same time last year (2,743 homes in 2009 to 2,888 homes in 2010).  On a month-to-month basis, single-family homes put under agreement were down 15.2 percent from 3,404 homes in November.

The Case-Shiller home price index for October is out, and Boston prices fell 1.2 percent from September. For the year, over all the Boston market is down very slightly by 0.2 percent. This puts Boston in the number 5 position in the market over all — only four other markets remain positive for the year [...]

The HomeGain blog released its fourth quarter survey of homeowner and realtor sentiment. Not sure how good a predictor this info is, but it is interesting to note that Massachusetts real estate pros and homeowners are more likely to think home values will increase in 2011 than many in the country. You can think of [...]

The excerpts below are from the December 1, 2010 Beige Book regarding the Boston residential real estate market.
The Beige Book is prepared by the Federal Reserve Bank based on information collected on or before November 19, 2010. Over all , the report said the economy in the Boston area seemed to be slowing in the final [...]

Boston real estate outlook

The Boston Business Journal interviewed economist Karl ’Chip’ Case on a range of issues.  The following excerpts are Karl Case’s thoughts on the U.S. housing market:
‘I’m not real optimistic’
It’s nearly impossible to meet with Case and not somehow discuss the housing market. The subject of wine is a close second, in terms of his [...]

Do you know of an unusual home?  I’m not sure what the exact definition is, but if you have a home like the photo above from Somerville, than read on.
WCVB’s Channel 5′s Chronicle program has a show upcoming on November 17 on unusual homes. 
This is an opportunity for Boston real estate agents to post a few pictures of an [...]