You want to sell your home? Lower the price.

by | | Selling your home

Tip for sellers, out there. Conventional wisdom says, if your agent has shown your home eight to 10 times with nary a sign of any offer, then it should be clear: you need to lower the price. Seriously, a lot of times sales agents won’t even have that...

Mass.: New Agency Disclosure Forms Required

by | | Boston real estate - buying a home, Selling your home, the commonwealth

Mass.: New Agency Disclosure Forms Required National Association of Realtors – Under regulations that go into effect on July 1, all real estate practitioners in Massachusetts must use a new mandatory agency disclosure that aims to bring clarity to agency...

What’s Your Boston House Worth Now?

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How to get an idea of whether your home would lose value if the real estate “bubble” burst: Link: What’s Your House Worth Now? Is the price of your house about to plummet? There’s no one foolproof indicator of a local housing bubble, so the...

Definitions of different types of agency relationships

by | | Boston real estate - buying a home, Selling your home

Courtesy, National Association of Realtors (In Massachusetts, most agents will be working for you, the seller, as a “listing agent” and for you, the buyer, as a “buyer’s agent”. Make sure you know, beforehand. If your agent is a...

Summer is the new Spring

by | | Selling your home

I hate that saying. Except for when Jon Stewart said earlier this week that “dying is the new 50”. Ha, ha. Anyway, 25 new listings hit the downtown Boston real estate market, today. Twenty-five! Two weeks after Memorial Day! It could just be a fluke, but...

Unrealistic expectations damns couple

by | | Selling your home

I seem to remember something about how accurately pricing your home is important if you want to sell it? From yesterday’s Times: When Brandt and Tiffany Schneider put their brick colonial on the market for $1.2 million last April, they had every reason to be...