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September 3, 2009

Why Lower-Priced Homes Are Selling in Franklin, MA

August 2009 was another good month for home sales in Franklin, MA.  33 single family homes sold in Franklin for the month, according to data maintained […]
August 25, 2009

Home Prices Rise Again in Metro-Boston

Single family home prices in Greater Boston rose 2.6% in June 2009, according to figures released today by Standard and Poor’s.  June’s 152.71 reading on the S&P/Case-Shiller […]
August 16, 2009

Good News: Fewer MA Homes for Sale

The supply of single family homes for sale in Massachusetts dropped 13.3% in August 2009 compared to year-ago levels.  This beneficial trend of lower home inventory […]
August 3, 2009

July Franklin MA Home Sales Strong

Home sales in Franklin, MA soared during the month of July 2009, posting the best results for the month since the boom year of 2004.  According […]
July 29, 2009

Boston Home Prices Rise Again

For the second month in a row, home prices rose in the greater Boston area according to figures released by Standard and Poor’s.  The S&P/Case-Shiller Home […]
July 20, 2009

Home Sale Prices Rise in Some MA Towns, Fall in Others

Median single family home sale prices rose in a number of MA towns in the first half of 2009.  The median price of a home in […]
July 15, 2009

Real Estate Market Bottom? Inventory Drop Could Signal Better Times Ahead

The inventory of homes for sale in Massachusetts dropped modestly during the first half of 2009 compared to last year.  This is good news for the […]
July 4, 2009

Franklin MA Home Sales – Why Normal is Reason to Celebrate

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 Prices Rise in Boston

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 16, 2009

Inventory of Property for Sale in MA Falls

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 1, 2009

Franklin MA Home Sales Solid

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

Consumer Confidence Soars, MA Home Prices Drop

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 […]
May 15, 2009

Supply of Franklin Homes for Sale Rises

The supply of homes for sale in Franklin, MA rose in May 2009.  A large number of recent new listings of Franklin houses contributed to the […]
May 2, 2009

Franklin MA Home Sales Rise

A modest strengthening in the Franklin MA home market continued in April 2009, marking the second month in a row that Franklin home sales showed some […]
April 28, 2009

Massachusetts Real Estate Relatively Strong

The downtrend in Massachusetts home prices continued in February 2009, but at a much less severe rate than seen in most of the other major real […]
April 15, 2009

Supply of MA Homes for Sale Declines

The inventory of available single family property in Massachusetts declined 13.4% in April 2009 from year-ago levels.  This is good news for those seeking more stability […]
April 7, 2009

Signs of Life in Real Estate

Stocks are up 22% from their lows . . . February new housing sales were up 4.7% nationally . . . Existing US home sales rose […]
April 4, 2009

Home Prices Rise in Franklin, MA

Median home sale prices rose in Franklin, MA during the first three months of 2009.  Single family home prices in Franklin climbed 10.9% compared to year-ago […]
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 […]