Home Values

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

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 […]
March 7, 2011

MA home sales drop in February

February’s brutal weather appears to have played havoc with the Massachusetts real estate market.  Home sales activity in MA last month plummeted as the winds howled […]
February 24, 2011

Greater Boston home sale prices rise slightly

Greater Boston home sale prices are stabilizing and even rising a little according to seasonally adjusted home price data released this week by Standard & Poors.  […]
February 18, 2011

Home buyers battle bad weather to maintain market momentum

While both December and January saw increased home sales in Massachusetts, the inventory of homes for sale in MA rose in February as home buyers fought […]
February 3, 2011

January home sales rise in MA

January home sales in Massachusetts rose 6.7% from year-ago levels, making last month the best January in the Commonwealth since 2007 in terms of single family […]
January 26, 2011

How to know where MA home prices are really headed

It can sometimes be hard to know exactly where home prices in Massachusetts are headed. That’s because local sale price statistics can be heavily influenced by […]