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  Open House Sunday 6/14  2-4pm Scituate's 2nd Cliff - Rare offering with classic New England Architecture, this 4BR 2BA home boasts a large private lot, gorgeous perennials, open and versatile floor plan and ocean breezes. Walk to the beach, Scituate Harbor and Marina.  On Town Sewer. Take a tour!

The current market conditions in Scituate are fair.  The final numbers for the 4th quarter were disappointing (compared to '07), and the current sales for this 1st quarter of '09 are lower than the same period in '08 (with a few weeks still to go).  Actual sales numbers are showing that values ha...

       What I love about the internet is it's ability to affect people's lives instantly.  News on demand.  Facts for homework.  Weather in Bali.  It's all here.  We are learning and growing very quickly together as a global community.  It gives everyone their own soapbox.  You can choose to shar...

     Of course, like Real Estate, all weather is local.  I was amused by a story on our local news last night about the chilly weather the folks in Florida have been experiencing.  Especially amusing to us here in New England, where everyone has a friend/relative who we call "snowbirds".  They le...

Real Estate in Scituate, MA Market Report and Thoughts on the Economy January 2009 The current conditions here in Scituate remain steady. The final numbers for 2008 reflect an overall decrease from ‘07, but still better than "our worst year" - ‘06. To put the course of Scituate's single family ho...

The Best (sort of) Scituate, MA Part 1  There were two recent events that led me to write this particular blog...               The first was the release of a local magazine's BEST OF list for the South Shore.  The other, a family vacation to historic Williamsburg, VA.               The magazine'...

     The current market conditions in Scituate, Cohasset and Hingham remain steady.  We have seen prices decrease to '04 levels, but have remained level since last fall.  The opening of the Greenbush Commuter Rail last fall seems to have played a bigger part than initially thought.  The high and ...

Like most Americans, I heard the call to switch over to Compact Flourescent Light Bulbs and dutifully started to replace the "Edison" incandescent ones in our home.  Now, I have been reading up on it and I'm not so sure......  Trace amounts of mercury, not easy to dispose of, and the fact that th...