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Home buying can be a very time consuming process. As an exclusive buyer agent, I work with my clients to develop a strategy for making the best use out of their time. All of my clients are very busy. With work and life commitments - taking a lot of time off for a home search is can be a difficult...
10/19/2012
Buying a home is a big purchase (and a big decision) - probably the biggest ones you will ever make. Your buyer agent should be your "consultant" and not a salesperson. They should work to understand what you are looking for and help you find it (if what you are looking for is reasonable in the a...
09/11/2012
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There is always a lot of press about year-to-year or month-to-month real estate sales data, but I like to look at real estate over the longer term since there are always natural cycles that occur. Most buyers have a minimum 5 year timeline for ownership so I went and looked at what average one be...
09/06/2012
With the sales of the end of August 2012 now recorded, we can take a look back and see how this year compared with 2011 for the Fenway neighborhood. Over the past 3 months (according to data obtained from the Multiple Listing Service) average sale prices for one bedroom condos in the Fenway have ...
09/04/2012
With the sales of the end of August 2012 now recorded, we can take a look back and see how this year compared with 2011 for Charlestown. Over the past 3 months (according to data obtained from the Multiple Listing Service) average sale prices for one bedroom condos in Charlestown have stayed stab...
09/04/2012
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Condos that parents purchase for their children to live in while the attend college - a.k.a. "Kiddie Condos" are very popular in Boston and Cambridge. It can be an excellent strategy for parents to pursue if they don't want to "throw money away on dorms / apartments" for the four or more years a ...
08/24/2012
As the Spring / Summer market gets put to bed and everyone awaits to see what new inventory will hit after Labor Day - sales over the past three months indicate that the Back Bay / South End / Beacon Hill property market is definitely in solid territory. Over the past 3 months (according to data ...
08/22/2012
As we saw in the one bedroom condo market for the past three months, the Back Bay / Beacon Hill / South End two bedroom or more condo market is also very stable, if not stronger than the one bedroom market. For the past three months (according to data obtained from the Multiple Listing Service) w...
08/22/2012
The multi-family housing market in Cambridge has been red-hot over the past few months, particularly in the under $700K market. Looking at closed sales over the past 90 days (as recorded in the Multiple Listing Service) - we see that 10 properties under $700K sold with 9 out of 10 of the sales go...
08/20/2012
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It's May and time for the second wave of the home buying season. Wave 1, from end of March through April 30, featured a lot of "fresh meat" on the market listings which went under agreement, and sometimes back on the market, within a few days of being listed. This wave had many situations of mult...
05/01/2012
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Gary Dwyer is Broker / Owner of Buyer Agents of Boston, LLC and an exclusive buyer agent serving all of Boston's neighborhoods, including Back Bay, South End, Beacon Hill, Waterfront, South Boston, Dorchester, Roxbury, and Jamaica Plain as well as Quincy, Arlington, Cambridge, Medford, Malden, Somerville, and Winchester.