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Redfin kicks it up a notch in Boston

Redfin entered the Boston market back in March. They started helping buyers of real estate negotiate transactions and close deals. They also helped sellers market and sell their properties (ending up with so much business that they had to close down for a week or two,...

Reader gets angry at blogger

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So, Boston.com has a real estate blog called The Boston Real Estate Blog Boston Real Estate Now. Here, blogger Rona Fishman, a real estate agent, wonders aloud about the Commonwealth’s hot real estate market of the past several years: [T]hree or four years ago...

Trulia: Spotlight on Boston

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Trulia, the national listings website, puts its monthly “Spotlight” on the city of Boston. The (brief) report (warning, .pdf) includes a “heat map” of what searches were most popular during the month of August. Back Bay, one of Boston’s...

MLS search

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The most popular activity on my site appears to be searching through our local Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Usually, 30-40 people a day do searches using this tool, which can be found in the right-hand column of this page. What I’ve always been confused about...

Bob Bruss passes away, and I’m sad about it

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From Inman News: Robert Bruss, the nationally syndicated real estate columnist, author and investing expert read by thousands of consumers, passed away today at his Northern California home. Bruss was an Inman News columnist and dear friend of the real estate...

Catty economists

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Who knew? A couple years ago, media-shy Robert Shiller and Karl “Chip” Case released, to much fanfare, their “S&P/Case-ShillerÂ® Home Price Indices”. These indices (I prefer the word “indexes”) are a way to measure investors...