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News and Happenings for Franklin, MA
July 4, 2009
Sometimes the ordinary and unremarkable give us cause to celebrate. That paradox is evident in the June 2009 home sales results for Franklin, MA where the […]
June 30, 2009
Home owners throughout Massachusetts received some very welcome news today from Standard and Poor’s. Boston metro area home prices rose 0.4% in April 2009 according to […]
June 26, 2009
Home sellers need to know about an obscure new appraisal code called HVCC that is scuttling some home sales and causing delays in closings across the […]
June 21, 2009
Franklin, MA will benefit from $1 million in new state funding for economic development and transportation infrastructure improvements. The funds will be targeted to certain streets […]
June 20, 2009
The weather didn’t fully cooperate Friday for the seventh annual Strawberry Festival in Franklin, MA, but the rain ended early enough to permit at least some […]
June 16, 2009
The broadest measure of housing inventory in MA showed a substantial decline in June 2009 as the amount of property for sale in Massachusetts fell by 9%. […]
June 14, 2009
Interest rates generally fall when the economy falters and rise when economic expectations turn bullish. With retail sales rising, the Fed announcing that the worst of […]
June 11, 2009
Many REO home sales in Massachusetts have stalled recently, unable to close due to a MA Land Court ruling back in March that invalidated two MA […]
June 5, 2009
A bid to allow the return of risky “no money down” mortgage loans was quashed this week by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development […]
June 4, 2009
I spent a full day this week at an excellent technology seminar in Norwood sponsored by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors. The sessions gave me a […]
June 1, 2009
More Franklin, MA single family homes sold in May 2009 compared to the previous month. This marked the third month in a row that sales of […]
May 26, 2009
Two closely followed economic reports released today contained what at first glance seem to be contradictory indications of the current state of the economy and MA […]
