
Boston Mortgage Payments Are Outstripping Income Gains
While home prices continue to rise, first-time buyers are finding that more pressure is being put on their pocketbooks even though incomes rose region-wide during the pandemic.
While home prices continue to rise, first-time buyers are finding that more pressure is being put on their pocketbooks even though incomes rose region-wide during the pandemic.
The Greater Boston Association of Realtors named Anthony Lamacchia as the recipient of its 2024 Realtor of the Year award.
While states such as Florida have seen massive growth in inventory so far this year, the same can’t be said for Massachusetts. Experts fear that a big interest rate cut won’t move the needle much, and could make prices go higher.
Lamacchia Realty’s westward march of acquisitions has finally reached Massachusetts’ western border.
Numbers of new listings are only up moderately in the Pioneer Valley, even as the rest of the state sees bigger gains, spurring calls for more housing production.
The state’s largest independent residential real estate brokerage now owns the home base of National Association of Realtors President Kevin Sears.
Many real estate agents across the state are already altering how they interact with home buyers and sellers in the wake of the surprise decision by the National Association of Realtors to settle pending lawsuits over agent commissions.
Expect more real estate brokerage consolidations over the course of 2024 if last year’s activity is any indication. Brokerages that made acquisitions in 2023 are looking for more deals this year.
The 2008 global financial crisis might not have been a popular time to launch a real estate career, but the new Massachusetts Association of Realtors President Wallick turned it into a springboard for 15 years of success.
Gov. Maura Healey’s housing bill boldly proposes a huge increase in affordable housing spending and equally needed policy reforms. But one provision, a transfer tax, would set Massachusetts back.
Quaint coastal communities just north of Boston are seeing their proximity to the city buffer them from home-price softness seen elsewhere in the state.
Waltham-based Lamacchia Realty has expanded its footprint into Bristol County and the Providence, Rhode Island metro with two brokerage acquisitions that add nearly 80 agents to its roster.
Two previously hardscrabble, post-industrial cities are snagging westward-bound homebuyers escaping higher real estate prices in the Greater Boston area.
With prices bouncing slightly up or down from day to day or week to week for everyday homes across the state, agents are having a trickier time accurately pricing the listings they’re bringing to market.
Several Massachusetts-based residential brokerages landed spots on a list of the nation’s largest real estate firms compiled by RealTrends.
Housing forecasters sure picked a great time to stop drinking. Markets around the country are headed into confusing territory just as the spring homebuying season is about to get underway.
The big drop in home sales last year wasn’t a sign the market is crashing It was a sign Massachusetts was coming off an unsustainable two years. Here’s what that means for the market in 2023.
The chilly wind blowing through the Massachusetts housing market this fall has pushed brokers to launch a range of initiatives aimed at helping their agents survive and thrive in 2023.
It’s a tough time to be a residential real estate brokerage right now. Revenue is falling along with numbers of home sales, raising the prospect that not every firm will survive next year.
With housing costs as high as they’ve ever been across the state and more companies willing to let their employees work remotely, some homebuyers have been beating a path to Worcester-area doorsteps.