It can be a tough market for selling a home, but those conditions can get even worse if sellers aren’t careful. While a seller doesn’t control the real estate market, their actions can significantly contribute to how long and how much their home is sold for. Underestimating Cleaning Up: It may seem obvious, but I […]
Continue readingWhen prospective home sellers invite me for a consultation, the most common question is not,”What is my home’s value?” but, “Should I renovate or sell the house as is?” Several considerations are made to answer the questions of renovating or selling as-is. At the top of the list is the local real estate market conditions. […]
Continue readingIt’s a common situation all real estate agents experience. We are discussing the benefits of our services with a perspective seller, and the commission bomb is dropped: “Is the commission negotiable,” the homeowner asks. “Some agents will do this for 4%,” is another comment I hear often in Brighton. While most agents fear the commission […]
Continue readingTight space, tight budget, and the fear of sinking money you won’t get back. Bathroom renovation resale value is not always 100%. When getting ready to sell your Boston condo, you can make small inexpensive changes with a big impact. A bathroom is a small space which can make or break a sale. If it’s […]
Continue readingIf you need to sell your condo in order to buy a house in Brookline, Newton and the Greater Boston area, you are not alone. With housing so expensive, not many can manage to keep both mortgages, or pay for the house without the proceeds from the condo. A contingency to sell your home is […]
Continue readingBrighton MA real estate picked up steam in 2012, and here are the numbers to prove it. Below notice how both the number of sales and prices in Brighton MA have gone up, while the average days of market sank by nearly 40%. The average sale price to list price ratio is also up, meaning […]
Continue readingOne of the best examples of a self-fulfilling prophecy is in the seasonality of the Boston real estate market. Every year, as Thanksgiving approaches, home sellers ask me, “Does it make sense to put the home on market now? There are no buyers looking.” From potential home buyers I hear, “ Should we wait until Spring to buy? […]
Continue readingNewton real estate is in high demand and in analyzing the market for Newton houses; you find almost across the board, the market is favoring sellers. Inventory of houses on market in Newton is just meeting demand or falling shy of it in some price ranges. The price range with most pressure is the $800,000-$899,999 […]
Continue readingRaising two kids and running two businesses, our home can get very messy, very fast. I used to easily fall into feeling overwhelmed and crowded in my own home, thinking it’s time to move and find more space. My temporary solution would be to do some cleaning-up, weeding out and organizing to feel better. But […]
Continue readingThis is not the first post I am writing about Brighton condo market getting tighter. A few weeks ago I wrote about dwindling inventory of condos available for sale and the huge drop in time on market, which I named, “Brighton Feels like 2004.” Inventory and days on market go hand in hand. These indicators […]
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