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Massachusetts home sale prices and MA real estate market trends with a Franklin, MA emphasis

July 5, 2018
Case Shiller Boston Home Price Index 1987 - 2018

No Boston Bubble: Why high MA home prices seem here to stay

The Massachusetts real estate market is currently a feast for home sellers. Demand for homes – and home sale prices – continue to soar in 2018. […]
March 15, 2018

33 percent fewer home listings this spring than 2 years ago

The spring home selling season has gotten off to an early start this year, despite three major snow storms so far in March.  Many recent open […]
January 17, 2018

A stellar year in Franklin real estate

A quick look at two charts will show you the driving force behind the outstanding sales numbers posted during 2017 for single family homes in the Town […]
November 8, 2017

Home prices hit a record high amid plunging inventories

The Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston has hit another all time high. The seasonally adjusted Boston Index topped 202 for the first time in its […]
October 3, 2017

Why housing is so expensive–and scarce–in Greater Boston

Have you have been wondering why it’s almost impossible to find a decent home at an affordable price in Greater Boston?  A presentation made earlier this […]
July 22, 2017
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Franklin Crossing Condos – 1st half 2017 sales report

The first half of 2017 saw the highest price paid for a unit at Franklin Crossing since the onset of the Great Recession back in 2009. […]
June 5, 2017

Greater Boston home prices set record high . . . again

Greater Boston home prices keep setting records!  The seasonally adjusted Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Boston climbed above 200 for the first time in its 30 […]
April 13, 2017

MA real estate market sizzles in first quarter of 2017

The sizzling Massachusetts real estate market continued on high broil during the first quarter of 2017. Housing inventories got markedly tighter throughout the eastern half of […]
March 10, 2017

Greater Boston home prices nearly double since 2000

Up 94 percent since 2000!  That’s the hefty gain recorded by Greater Boston single family home prices in the 16 years since start of the 21st […]
February 20, 2017

Housing scarcity deepens across Eastern MA

There’s a pressing lack of homes for sale in most communities in Eastern Massachusetts.  As you’ll see in this post below, there’s currently an alarmingly low […]
January 23, 2017

Franklin, MA faces a housing shortage in 2017

In a situation recalling the “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” opening lines of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, […]
January 15, 2017

2016 a record year for real estate in MA

2016 was a stupendous year for real estate in Massachusetts. Home sales volume on MLS-PIN shattered prior records and Greater Boston home prices hit new all […]