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The best and worst places to find Boston condos for sale

The obvious place for most Boston condo for sale buyers is whichever websites pops up when they enter key search words into Google. Sometimes, the Boston condo buying websites that you may click on are those with the Google Ads on top, but those may not be your best choices.

You need to find a Boston condo website that provides not just updated listings, but goes the extra step and teaches or informs you of the present Boston condo market, sales data, price per sq ft ect…Additionally, look for Boston condo buyer websites that has a page for FAQ’s for Boston condo buyers

The Worst Places to Find Boston Condos for Sale

The fact is, most Boston condo for sale buyers have little idea where to find homes for sale. They tend to presume that a national websites like Zillow or Trulia, is a good place because they see a lot of activity and name recognition.  However, national websites are not your best option.

Out-of-date National Websites

When a homeowner falls behind on payments, this website picks up that delinquency and reports it as a pre-foreclosure. This does mean the home is for sale. Odds are it may never be for sale, but you might find it on a national website.
Some websites do not report sold or pending sales. So, a buyer might find the perfect Boston condo for sale but that home has already sold. It takes a few hours to a few days for some websites to update information as well, so a buyer is rarely assured that information is presently current, much less accurate.

It can be very frustrating and upsetting to try to rely on information that appears correct but is wrong or out-of-date. These websites do a fairly good job of giving a first-time home buyer an overview of pricing in an area, but mostly the raw data could use refinement.

Agents Who Advertise as Area Specialists on Websites

So-called area specialists are something you’ll run into it on certain types of websites. A real estate agent’s own website, for example, will not direct you to a competing real estate agent, but many national websites of homes for sale actively encourage real estate agents to advertise. In other words, these websites charge agents a monthly or annual fee to advertise themselves as an area specialist.

It works out as a great revenue stream for the National website companies, and it gives Boston condo brokers who might not otherwise receive any exposure online a place to be noticed. Is that real estate agent who might be offered as one out of four agents to help you actually an area specialist or is that agent a budding entrepreneur with extra money to pay for special placement in Google Ads?

You won’t know. Odds are more likely that the agent is not the area specialist because typically these types of advertising opportunities tend to appeal to brand new agents who are looking for Boston condo for sale buyers to help build their business.

Best Places to Find Homes for Sale

The very best place to find Boston Beacon Hill condos for sale online is to receive that information directly from the prominent multiple listing service (MLS). Multiple listing service listings are updated instantly. Only real estate agents and other paid participants of the multiple listing service have access to this information.

Apart from subscribing to a local multiple listing service yourself, the next best thing is to find a Boston downtown condo websites that is updated daily with new blog posts and new listings in real time. You can often sign up for automatic emails through an agent’s website. This will give you the quickest access to new listings coming on the market in downtown Boston.

Automatic sent emails

If an agent agrees to send you emails, that agent can probably arrange for the listings to be delivered directly from MLS. The more general you make your parameters, the more listings you will receive. If you are looking for a home in the $500,000 price range, your agent might set the parameters as $499,000 to $550,000. That would mean you would not receive a home priced at $700,000.
Most real estate agents have the ability to specify boundary searches or can draw map searches for you, which is particularly useful if you are searching in more than one ZIP code. You can ask to receive sold listings as well as pending listings to help you monitor the marketplace. Some systems allow emails to go out several times a day or even every hour on the hour.
Conclusion

Make sure the brokerage provides listings from every broker and does not just offer the brokerage’s own listings. Generally at the bottom somewhere you’ll find a note as to the brokerage that owns the listing. It might read: listing courtesy by Ford Realty Inc.

Please keep me in mind, if you;re thinking of buying or selling a Boston condo.

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