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“Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
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Move Massachusetts of Comprehensive Realty Service is a full-service, boutique real estate brokerage firm specializing in residential properties throughout the state of Massachusetts. Our firm embraces a client-centric business model—we believe in empowering and educating our clients so that they can make informed decisions to live/invest where they want.
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Stay up to date with the Massachusetts real estate market statistics including home values, listing prices, number of homes for sale, and more.
“For the first time this year, sales of Massachusetts single-family homes declined in July, posting a 26 percent decrease from July 2009, according to the latest report by The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman.
Single-family home sales dropped 26.15 percent in July, reversing a trend of 12 straight months of increases. A total of 3,668 single-family homes sold in July, down from 4,967 a year earlier. This is the fewest number of sales in the month of July since 1990. In the first five months prior to July, sales …
Your Refund: Usually $1,000+
For home purchases $300,000 and up, Move Massachusetts only retains $5,000 of our commission and gives you, the buyer, the rest.
In this example:
You pay $350,000 for a house.
The total commission for seller & buyer agents is typically 5% (2.5% each), so the seller’s agent gets $8,750, and Move Massachusetts gets $8,750.
Move Massachusetts credits you $3,750.
For home purchases less than $300,000, our buyers still receive $500. This amount often covers the cost of your home inspection, real estate attorney, or that table that would go great in your …
This myFICO webinar “describes some of the fundamentals of FICO® scores and then takes a closer look at some topics pertinent to today’s credit climate… Ethan Dornhelm, a FICO scoring expert shed light on questions like “How do you get the highest FICO scores?” and “How do foreclosures affect your FICO score?”. The myFICO® panel then spent about 15 minutes fielding questions from the audience.”
An article in the New York Times, “Why Home Prices Keep Falling,” describes the plight of U.S. home prices and the expectation that they will continue to fall through 2010, maybe even 2011.
“Even the federal government has projected price decreases through 2010. As a baseline, the stress tests recently performed on big banks included a total fall in housing prices of 41 percent from 2006 through 2010. Their “more adverse” forecast projected a drop of 48 percent — suggesting that important housing ratios, like price to rent, and price to …
