Couple stories in today’s Herald that may be of interest to you. First, further analysis of Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies annual “State of the Nation’s Housing” report finds that “a median Hub-area home sold for 5.9 times local...
Interesting bit of information buried in “The State of the Nation’s Housing 2006” report, issued last week by Harvard’s Joint Center For Housing Studies. While homeowners with annually adjusting mortgage rates are facing interest increases this...
From yesterday’s Boston Herald: Mortgage brokers say consumers often say: already checked my credit score online – then a loan officer finds the personal FICO score is 50 or 100 points lower than the borrower thought. This is becoming a real problem...
This is just a nasty thing to find out. How it ever happened, I don’t know, but it’s probably not that uncommon. Man buys a home (I’m assuming, perhaps wrongly, that he bought it directly from the seller or seller’s agent, without the help of a...
The Boston Globe ran a story yesterday about the Ladder District, which is an ill-defined neighborhood near “Midtown” and “The Financial District”. You or I might also know it by its other name, “Downtown Crossing”. The residential...
The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard has released its annual “The State of the Nation’s Housing” report. It’s good reading (at least take a look at the graphs and charts!). What’s new? Well, surprisingly, the report shows that...