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Condos Are Back and Overtaking Single-Family Homes In Appreciation

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Condos are appreciating faster than single-family homes accross the US. This is especially prominent in areas with thriving job markets and ongoing urban renewal. Condo are appreciating at a rate of 5.1 percent compared to the 3.7 percent appreciation for single family [...]

Brand New Contemporary In Newton Center

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0 Fox Hill Road 
Newton, MA

Move into your brand new home as soon as this spring! This home is in a great neighborhood surrounded by multi-million dollar homes and just a minute away from Oak Hill School! It boasts 5 bedrooms (with the possibility of adding a 6th in the lower level). The lower level is completely finished and plumbed for [...]

Foreclosures Up in 32 States

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There were a total of 327,258 foreclosure filings in the third quarter of 2015 according to a recent report.

The annual increase in the third quarter was the second consecutive quarter where US foreclosure activity rose on a year-over-year basis following 19 consecutive quarters of year-over-year [...]

Food(less) Truck Listings: A New Way to Advertise Real Estate?

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A developer based in Washington D.C. is hitting the road in search of potential renters using their brand new (foodless) truck. The JBG Companies is the creator of Dwell Direct, an outfit they deem a "mobile real estate experience". The state of the art truck is now the company's mobile leasing office furnished with a 60-inch touch screen, [...]

Bill Propsing TRID Hold-Harmless Period Passes House

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As the real estate industry moves forward with the execution of the now-effective TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule (TRID), a bill intended to help smaller lending, title and escrow companies with compliance, passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday, October 7. The bill "Homebuyers Assistance Act (H.R. 3192), suggested a period [...]

Non-Conventional Financing Strategies On the Rise for New Homebuyers

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Non-traditional forms of financing new single-family home purchases remained high in 2014, but the use and mix differed significantly across the country, according to NAHB analysis of a recent Census Bureau Survey of Construction (SOC) data. In the West North Central division, only 21 percent of new homes in 2014 were attained using [...]

How to Avoid Cyber Rental Scams

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Just because it’s on the Internet doesn’t mean it's true: words to live by, especially when renting online.

You think you’ve found the perfect place – everything you've been searching for with a landlord eager and willing to accept first, last and security. But beware; that too good to be true listing you found online might actually be too [...]

Rent at Record High After September Increase

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Rent at Record High After September Increases

U.S. multifamily rents are now at a record high and still climbing rapidly. In August the average nationwide rent rose to $1,162, a 6.5 percent increase year over year. This percentage mirrored that of July when the average U.S. apartment rent rose to $1,155. And that’s not all: rents have been [...]

Surge In Boston Home Sales

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Surge In Boston Home Sales

The Greater Boston housing market exhibited significant growth this August, with the month’s 1,720 single-family sales representing a 13.5 percent increase from a year ago.

Furthermore, with 1,302 contracts signed in August pending sales were up 30.9 percent. This denotes at least another month of strong sales [...]

The Millennial Homebuyer

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The Millennial Homebuyer

A recent study by apartmentlist.com focused exclusively on millennials and their intentions about buying a home. The data comes from nearly 6,000 millennial renters (age 18-34) at a time when home ownership for American's under 35 is the lowest in history since 1984.  Here, we break down the key findings in the [...]

Boston Ranked "Healthiest Housing Market"

In a study conducted by WalletHub, Boston has been ranked the healthiest home market in the U.S. Based on Census data and the American Housing Survey, these figures compared the 25 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, with the Massachusetts capital taking the top spot. The survey was established upon the following 7 [...]

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