The tail end of Massachusetts’ fall home sales are finally winding their way through the closing process, and the results aren’t pretty: numbers of single-family and condominium sales are down by big double-digit percentages year-over-year.
A spike in Massachusetts condominium sales prices in October may not be a signal of a flight to affordability so much as be a sign that developments under construction over the last few years are finally coming online.
Single-family home and condo sales declined across Massachusetts in September as mortgage rates rose, while inventory remains in short supply and a leading Realtor says Greater Boston’s sellers’ market has come to an end.
The share of Boston-area home listings with price cuts may be much less than the same months in 2018 and 2019, but the size of the reductions are like nothing seen in the last five years.
The Greater Worcester area was the nation’s most competitive housing market in May, according to a new Redfin report that measured the number of competing offers its buyers agents encountered. And Greater Boston was the nation’s third-hottest.
Could the suburban shift in Greater Boston homebuyer demand be on the wane? That’s what Zillow researchers are suggesting in a new report out this morning.
Even as rising home prices and interest rates pushed many out of the housing market last month, several indicators show competition for the few remaining homes for sale stayed fierce.
Massachusetts’ home sales figures slid downward for yet another month in March, as the state’s housing shortage and rising interest rates continued to bite.
New reports from the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and online brokerage Redfin shows that the February housing market began heating up.
As the new year opened, fewer homes were for sale in Massachusetts than at any time in the last 23 years, helping send the median single-family and condominium sale prices to record highs for yet another month.
Massachusetts saw 6.09 percent fewer single-family homes hit the market in August than came online in September, according to new statistics released by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors.
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Massachusetts saw a slight downturn in the number of single-family houses sold last month compared to the pre-pandemic norm, leaving some observers to question whether the pool of potential homebuyers has shrunk, and others to conclude the let-up is only temporary.
Even as Massachusetts single-family prices broke another record last month, signs emerged that the state’s inventory drought could be easing.
The number of homes for sale in Massachusetts’ major markets stayed at very low levels in February, new data from Massachusetts’ Realtor associations shows, keeping the state on track for a spring housing market featuring record price growth if strong demand continues.
Local professional real estate groups are applauding the National Association of Realtors’ decision Tuesday to try to curb the practice of pocket listings.
Marie Presti, broker-owner of The Presti Group in Newton, is officially the 2018 president of the Greater Boston Association of Realtors (GBAR). She was installed in ceremonies held at the Boston-Newton Marriott in Newton last week.
I recently wrote an article designed to inform consumers about the current state of agency relationships in Massachusetts and asked MAR’s General Counsel Mike McDonagh and GBAR’s General Council Bill Mullen to review it to ensure I got it right.
The Greater Boston Association of Realtors has named Marie Presti, broker/owner of the Presti Group in Newton, as the 2017 Greater Boston Realtor of the Year. Presti received the award during the association’s annual awards breakfast at the Granite Links Golf Club in Quincy in June.
