Home Values

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

April 2, 2009

High-Low Sales Report Mar 2009

The Franklin, MA real estate market strengthened moderately in March 2009 after the sluggish performance turned in for February.  The top selling prices of single family […]
March 31, 2009

Case-Shiller Boston Home Price Index 1/09

Single family home prices in the Greater Boston metro region fell again in January 2009.  Values declined 1.5% from December 2008’s levels, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller […]
March 16, 2009

Market Leaves Some Sellers Happy, Others Not

This is a very uneven real estate market.  Some homes sell quickly while others can linger unsold for months.   So you have some happy, successful home […]
March 15, 2009

Absorption Rates March 2009

Single family home inventory in Massachusetts showed modest improvement in March 2009 compared to year-ago levels. The Franklin, MA real estate market experienced the least reduction; […]
March 13, 2009

Low Offers: Why They Don’t Work

Buyers will occasionally ask me whether they can make an offer of 20%, 30% or even 40% less than a listing’s asking price.  The expectation is […]
March 9, 2009

Home Buyers Active, Shopping Mall Packed

This is a report from the trenches of Franklin, MA real estate, a quick status snapshot of things as they were Sunday, March 8, 2009 in […]
March 2, 2009

High-Low Sales Report Feb 2009

There was a total of only seven single family home sales in Franklin entered on the MLS during February 2009.  This is an astonishingly low number […]
February 26, 2009

Case-Shiller Boston Home Price Index 12/08

Since peaking at its high of 182.45 in September 2005, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for single family homes in the Boston metropolitan area has declined […]
February 15, 2009

Absorption Rates February 2009

The inventory of single family homes for sale in Franklin, MA remained relatively unchanged at 6.6 months in February 2009 compared to February 2008’s 6.4 months […]
February 1, 2009

High-Low Sales Report Jan 2009

The Franklin, MA real estate market turned in a fairly stable performance in January 2009.  As you can see in the high-low sales report above, there […]
January 30, 2009

Absorption Rates January 2009

Inventories of single family homes for sale rose in select Massachusetts regional markets in January 2009 compared to January 2008. As shown in the chart above, […]
January 30, 2009

Case-Shiller Boston Home Price Index 11/08

The S&P Case-Shiller home price indices are published the last Thursday of every month with a two month lag.  The latest month covered by the indices […]