BOSTON, NEWTON REAL ESTATE

FHA To Raise Mortgage Insurance Premiums & Reduce Closing Costs Home owners and home buyers obtaining FHA loans will soon have to pay increased mortgage insurance fees and have less availability for closing cost assistance on these types of loans. These changes are part of a host of updates that ...

A major earthquake centered just 10 miles from Port-au-Prince has devastated the country.  Partners in Health and its partner organization Zanmi Lasante have worked in Haiti for nearly twenty-five years, and today is one of the largest non-governmental health care providers in the country.    As ...

Everyone should know by now about what had happened in Haiti. But what we may not know and understand is what is going on now. They don't have medical care, no utility, no home, no safe places. You can donate $10 by texting the word "Haiti" to 90999   Click here for information 

SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE FOR SALE 3 BEDROOMS 3 AND 1/2 BATHROOMS NEAR BENTLY COLLEGE, PIGEON HILL, WALTHAM, MA for $889,000 This beautiful well maintained SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE is a trusure on Storer Reservation Hill. The house is on a 0.57 acres hillside lot. It was built in 1983. The area is the best...

I have received many email and phone calls from many potential buyers who are looking to buy properties called "Short Sale Property" Many buyers think that the only way to get a good deal is to buy a foreclosed property of short sale property. In the climate of housing down turn, there are (too) ...

In times like these, the last thing any of us need is a bad home inspection. Many of you have labored long and hard to find the right home for your Buyer, negotiated the purchase price and other terms, made arrangements for financing,perhaps even had your Buyer engage an attorney for assistance w...

The problem is this. Many condominiums are frightfully mismanaged. Nobody wants to serve as a Trustee, and so the people who do serve are either megalomaniacs or people who don't have much business savvy, but have a lot of time on their hands. Meetings of Trustees are poorly attended. A kind of P...

Before placing your home for sale, follow these easy tips for an exterior home make-over. Get started: 1. Solicit the help of at least one honest friend.2. Get in your car ,with friend in tow, and drive up to your home. Then, approach the front door as a potential buyer would.3. What things you n...

I swear, it was not my fault. In my mind, every closing in which I,or my firm participated, was handled promptly and professionally. We even conducted the closings "on-site" to make it easier for the 30 or so purchasers of the Condominium Units. Toward the end of the process, I started to see wha...

In Newton Massachusetts, property tax is base on a fair market value as of January 1st each year.  The City of Newton mail out property tax bills quarterly. The first two, due on September 1st. and November 1st. These are estimated by prior year value. The third is due on February 1st. and is pro...