Brighton condo for sale, on market this week! Listing price $329,000. One bedroom condo located at the Claridge house, 1933 Commonwealth Avenue. Unit 606 faces front, where you find excellent views of the reservoir. Cleveland Circle location, just a short walk from shops, restaurants, and the B, C and D lines. This unit comes with […]
Continue readingChestnut Hill MA houses come in a wide variety of styles and prices. The most obvious reason is Chesnut Hill is not a municipality, but a zip code including parts of several towns: Pieces of Brookline, Newton, West Roxbury and a nibble of Brighton. Houses in West Roxbury will be priced lower than Brookline, even […]
Continue readingThe Brookline MA condominium market has been tight and getting tighter for a couple of years now. Buyers compete for properties in any price range, and inventory remains low. The number of buyers increase as the inventory has steadily decreased. The graph below shows peak inventory in 2013 is lower than off-season inventory in the […]
Continue readingSold $390,000. When I think of Brookline condos, I think of turn-of-the century buildings with ornamental details, hardwood floors, high ceilings and brilliant floor plans. There is a feeling of “they don’t make ’em like they used to,” when you walk around these brownstones. 21-23 Warwick Road is such a building. A top floor unit is […]
Continue readingMedian house prices in Brookline MA are on the rise again. Brookline’s market for single family houses is only 22% of the total number of properties sold in the past twelve months. But in dollars, the Brookline market for houses had $246.5 million in closings, worth 42% of the dollar volume of real estate sold […]
Continue readingNew construction is a rare but welcome occurrence for Brookline, MA real estate. Behind 1842 Beacon Street, on Englewood Avenue, there is a construction site. Home buyers and those who are simple curious ask me about this spot regularly. But home buyers and condo searchers will be disappointed to learn this building is all rentals for now. […]
Continue reading“Months of supply” in real estate is the closest thing we have to a forecasting tool. The months of supply measures how long it would take to sell the current number of homes on the market. Low inventory, means demand exceeds supply, hence rising prices are a logical expectations. Anything under a three months […]
Continue readingThree brand new luxury condos are tough competition for Back Bay condos! Here’s a rare opportunity of brand new construction condos in Brookline, just a few blocks from the City. The three condos available at 163 Kent Street will have you reconsidering the Back Bay condo market in a flash. Offering ultra-modern and sleek design, […]
Continue readingResidential exemptions are reduction on your tax bill if you live in the home you own. Most towns have some sort of residential exemption, usually calculated with a deduction off the assessed value of your principle residence. Your principle residence is defined as the address used on your last income tax filing. In Brookline, the […]
Continue readingThere has been a lot of talk about the shrinking supply of homes in the market. The shift in this critical market condition is nicely shown in the months of supply of Brookline’s single family houses chart. In May 2o11 there was over 10 months of supply – meaning, it would take 10 months to […]
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