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2011
The Buyer in the recent Massachusetts Appeals Court Matter of ZANG v. NRT NEW ENGLAND INCORPORATED ("NRT") (77 Mass App. Ct 665 (2010) had a pretty good idea of what he wanted. He was involved in a purchase of a Boston, Massachusetts condominium, and he wanted the listing broker and sales agent ...
01/18/2011
I am not asked this question as much as I would think. But, once in a while I am asked what I would consider the important criteria for selecting a Realtor to list a client's home. Over the years, there are the truisms that exist today, just as much as they did in the Dark Ages, when I started pr...
01/14/2011
While people do not not to admit it, we are still in a Buyer's market, if not in reality, then in the heads of most people with whom I have dealt lately. Buyer's continue to think they can push Sellers, if not on price, then on repair/closing cost credit requirements. I have recently been involve...
01/12/2011
This set of circumstances arose in my law practive the other day. One of the religious corporations i represent was permitting a devloper to remove a condemned histroically protected building from its grounds. The purchase price was negligible, but my client had other concerns such as liaibility ...
01/12/2011
I am a Massachusetts real estate attorney. I have been posting on AR for about two years, and I finally am starting to "get it". If you want to shower yourself on the first page of Google, make sure the title of you post is specific and includes "localism" if possible. My post yesterday, which re...
01/09/2011
My clients have been recently facing a dilemma. Should they raise their three small daughters in the South End of Boston, or should they make the "trek" to the suburbs, A common question facing many urban couples. There were "pulls" and "tugs" on both sides. They loved the urban life; they have t...
01/07/2011
Like most good sales ideas that have happened to me, this marketing opportunity arose quite by accident. I am a Massachusetts real estate attorney with more than 40 years of experience in my profession. One of the things I have lately started to do for out-of-sate clients is manage their investme...
01/06/2011
This is day 2 of 2011. Many of us have sat down and, systematically, started to develop goals and objectives for this year. This is a time-honored tradition, and most of us go through the exercise, either on a formal basis by writing things down, or by at least thinking about things that we MUST ...
01/01/2011