BOSTON, NEWTON REAL ESTATE

The Mortgage Interest Rate Lock Advisory for Provincetown MA for February 19, 2010 Here are some of the events affecting mortgage rates today in Provincetown, MA. What Mortgage Backed Securities Are Doing Today: The price of the FNMA 30-Year 4.5% MBS coupon opened at 100.16 this morning - the sam...

This post is certainly not written out of self interest. I am a Massachusetts real estate attorney with over 40 years of experience assisting Realtors, and Buyers and Sellers, in entering into real estate transactions. I represent some Condominium Associations. I have written many sets of Condomi...

    It used to be that internet savvy buyers would spend a few weeks looking and learning, and then once they targeted their desired area/price/style, they’d view a handful of homes, maybe 3-5, submit an offer, get into escrow and actually close escrow within about a month. Now if you’ve done you...

The economy's improving but lending standards are not. Nationally, banks are making mortgage approvals harder to come by. Underwriting guidelines are tightening. The data comes from the Federal Reserve's quarterly survey to its member banks.  The Fed asks senior bank loan officers around the coun...

Recently, i read a Featured Post from a Realtor in Chicago who was eliciting information amount how many Realtors, from time to time, "throw in" a portion of their commission to make sure a deal "happens". The results of here survey were pretty much what I would have expected. Most Realtors who r...

Almost by definition, short sales represent some failure in the system which has resulted in a bargain element being injected into the process. Because my clients are getting "bargains", they are losing many of the elements of a transaction which can give them comfort. Many times despite efforts ...

To preface this post, I should probably state that it's not strictly political in nature.  For those of you who read my blog regularly, you know that I don't often write about politics, and I don't strictly define myself as a Democrat OR a Republican.  However, I do think and hope there's a bit ...

Frequently Asked Question: Can I do an FHA streamline refinance without an appraisal to remove a non-occupying co-borrower? Q: I purchased a home in 2008 with a non-occupant co-borrower because I didn't qualify to buy a home on my own. Now, the non-occupying co-borrower wants to purchase own home...

As banks continue to foreclose on homes in Wisconsin, buyers are sure to come across some amazing garage-sale priced homes; but buyers have opportunities to buy homes through a "short sale" before a home goes into foreclosure. What is a "short sale?" A short sale may be defined as the sale of a h...

Short Sales- HAFA explained- this is the third part in our series on analyzing the HAFA guidelines.  Today I started getting links and calls from Real estate agents around the county and even two agents from Miami. They all were saying, this is great. Did you read the Sunsentinal today? They say ...