Home Values

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

August 31, 2011

Greater Boston home prices leap 5% in 2 months

Standard & Poors announced yesterday that Greater Boston home prices rose an impressive 5% over the last two months. The startling news is contained in the […]
August 6, 2011

MA home sales up 19 percent in July

Home sales rebounded strongly across Massachusetts in July, rising 19% from their levels of one year ago.  July’s healthy sales figures mark the first notable pick […]
July 27, 2011

MA home prices rise

Massachusetts home sellers finally got some good news this week as Standard & Poors announced a nearly one percent rise in the seasonally adjusted S&P/Case-Shiller Home […]
July 8, 2011

Home buying opportunity of a generation?

What may be looked back on years from now as the home-buying opportunity of a generation continues in Massachusetts real estate. MA home prices and home […]
June 15, 2011

Rising supply of MA homes for sale means time to buy

The inventory of homes for sale in Massachusetts swelled a whopping 21% in June compared to year-ago levels.  The rise in MA housing inventory this year […]
June 9, 2011

Consensus: MA home prices will fall in 2011, rise in 2012

If you’ve been wondering when the Massachusetts real estate market will start rising, 2012 looks to be the year. That’s the consensus among 111 housing and […]
May 19, 2011

MA economy adds 19,500 jobs; unemployment falls below 8 percent

The Massachusetts economy continues to add jobs, building on recently reported momentum.  Experts predict that the number of MA jobs will regain pre-recessionary highs by 2013 […]
May 11, 2011

Good news on MA economy you may not have heard

You might have missed recent news reports detailing positive developments in the Massachusetts economy. This good news has been easy to miss because so much of […]
May 2, 2011

Greater Boston home prices fall

Greater Boston home prices took a tumble in the most recent release of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index.  The decline in Boston home prices is encouraging […]
April 18, 2011

Inventory of homes for sale in MA rises back up to 2009 levels

It would take 10 and a half months for all the single family homes currently for sale in Massachusetts to find buyers according to data maintained […]
April 4, 2011

March MA real estate sales improve slightly

The real estate market in Massachusetts showed signs of life last month, picking up some much-needed momentum after a truly dismal February. Home sales for the […]
April 3, 2011

Greater Boston home prices rise for second straight month

Greater Boston home prices rose in January, according to figures released last week by Standard and Poors. 2nd monthly rise in a row The seasonally-adjusted S&P/Case-Shiller […]