As the stock market sputtered, the local real estate market slowed dramatically. Now that the Federal Reserve has backed off plans to increase interest rates in 2019, real estate here and around the country has taken off again.
Would you describe the Boston housing market as “hot,” with high demand and low supply?
Gas prices shot up 73 percent in 1973, the year OPEC lowered the boom on the U.S. economy. Pumps went dry and irate drivers queued up in long lines at service stations; some resorted to stealing precious fuel from their neighbors’ cars at night.
New Bedford and Fall River are ranked at the bottom of WalletHub’s newest ranking of real estate markets in the country. Out of 300 cities, Fall River ranked 287, New Bedford ranked 288 and Brockton ranked 276.
Were fears overblown that changes to the federal tax law would trigger plunging home values?
As the thermometer drops, the daylight wanes and the snow starts to fly in New England, real estate activity slows to a crawl. This year has been especially hectic and the temptation to hibernate is strong, but smart real estate agents use the down time to reinvest in themselves reinvest in
Mystery sleuths out there, here’s one for you: Just how does the Massachusetts real market continue to function when the already record low number of homes for sale keeps going even lower? Every time it looks like the number of listings couldn’t possibly drop again, it does
A generation ago, the process of house-hunting was very different than it is today.
