Massachusetts Home Buyer Guide - For MA Home Buyers, By An Exclusive Buyer Agent

The Quincy Cove, a newspaper covering the Greater Boston area, recently published an article that warns consumers to look out for a foreclosure scams that could potentially hit Massachusetts in the near future. The scams are known as Forensic Loan Audits and are advertised to provide a borrower w...

The pace of Massachusetts foreclosure petitions, the first step of the foreclosure process, have begun to slow, The Boston Globe reported March 3, 2010. In the month of January the number of new petitions dropped to a 12-month low. According to the Warren Group, a Boston-based real estate market ...

Median prices for single-family homes and condominiums in Massachusetts increased significantly in January compared to January 2009, The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman, reported February 23, 2010. The median price for single-family houses sold in January rose 9.6 percent to $285,0...

Starting July, 2010 there will be a new law in place regarding the compliance rules for any Massachusetts homes heated with oil. The Homeowner Oil Heating System Upgrade and Insurance Law is not only changing the regulations for home heating systems, but also includes new legislation for insuranc...

As those of us in the real estate business know, not every community is in the midst of a real estate slump. After some significant declines in home sales and median price, Amesbury, Massachusetts has seen its real estate market come alive. The median price of a single-family home in Amesbury, MA...

Between the months of January and September of 2009, the median price of single-family homes sold in Duxbury, Massachusetts was $480,000. This was down 27.8 percent compared to January through September of 2008. From 2006 to 2007, the median price increased 2.8 percent, and increased another 3.9 ...

Single-family homes sold in Marshfield, MA between January 1st and September 30th in 2009 had a median price of $320,000, a decrease of 15.8 percent compared to the same period in 2008, which had a median price of $380,000. From 2007 to 2008 there was an 8.4 percent decrease in median price and f...

Multi-family home sales were up 5.2 percent in 2009 compared to 2008, from 6,348 homes sold in 2008 to 6,681 homes in 2009, the Massachusetts Association of REALTORS® reported January 26, 2010.  Median sales prices for multi-family homes decreased 10.6 percent from $212,500 in 2008 to $190,000 in...

The median price for single-family homes sold in Merrimac, Massachusetts during October of 2009 was $290,500, a decrease of 32.4 percent when compared to the previous October. The decline in October 2009 median price followed a 3.9 decrease from October 2007 to October 2008, with a median price o...

Massachusetts home auction announcements rose slightly in 2009, The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman reported January 21, 2010. A total of 19,441 auction announcements were tracked in 2009, a 0.9 percent increase from 19,270 in 2008. Auction announcements in December 2009 totaled 1,9...