The Needle in the Haystack, Newton Luxury Home. With all the inventory of luxury properties available right now in Newton it takes some focus to pull out the wheat from the chaff. In many areas there is not enough inventory on the market right now, but this is not the case with Newton luxury homes. There is 9 months of listings with the average market being 6 months. This makes the Newton Luxury real estate market a Buyers market. Sounds good for the buyers, right? Well it is, but this comes with the caveat that you can get a great deal, not just a good one.Luxury homes are mostly nice. They have nice kitchens, nice landscaping, many nice amenities so what is the difference, how do you choose? New construction over an older home that has been rehabbed and updated is one difference. Peop... 04/16/2015

Updating Newton Luxury Homes and Farlow Hill. There are 53 properties that are in the $2,100,000 and above range in Newton right now. That is a lot of inventory, but on closer inspection there are some real deals in here as well as some very overpriced properties.  All statistics come from the Greater Boston Area of Realtors, MLSPIN.Single Family Active Listings: 36    Avg. Liv.Area SqFt: 5,957.39     Avg. List$: $2,745,466    Avg. List$/SqFt: $470     Avg. DOM: 157.11Drilling down into all 36 of these listings you will find that there are some properties on the market for well below the Ave. List$/SqFt price.  114 Shornecliffe Road is arguably one of the nicest homes that are not new construction, but have all the amenities the new ones have and also include the old world craftmanship ... 04/13/2015

Formal Places, Open Spaces. Newton Luxury Home For Sale.  Living in colonial New England it is no surprise the most sought after home is the colonial. Newton is a town filled with luxury colonial homes and other types as well.  114 Shornecliffe is defined as the best example of Classical Revival architecture in Newton which is really a Colonial with a very nice front addition with two story columns.  This home has formal spaces in the original house and the addition here on the right is a 3 car garage on the ground, a large and open space living space on the first floor connected to the kitchen and the outdoor spaces in the back of the house and a large and roomy master bedroom. The master bedroom has one of the largest walk in closets I have seen in Newton. 114 Shornecliffe Road, Newto... 03/25/2015

Newton Luxury Home 1, Ice Dams 0  Say what you want about new construction, but give me a building that has stood the test of time and time again.  114 Shornecliffe was a luxury home when it was built on, then Nonantum Hill, now Farlow Hill in 1911.  This house has graciously endured countless storms of horrific nature.  Now, today we have passed the all time record for snow in MA.  Many, many homes are suffering huge ice dams that are damaging the exterior of the house and forcing water down and inside the home.  This is not the case with a house built like this Classical Revival home.  This house proudly controls it's destiny due to the loving upgrades.  This house has been fully re-insulated with the best products available in today's market.  Unlike new construction, this house is s... 03/03/2015

Boston Area Move In Homes Luxury Housing Report Feb 27-15  As a Million Dollar Guild member of the Institute for International Luxury Home Marketing (ILHM) I have access to deep insight into the analytics of the Luxury Housing Reports internationally and in our Boston area.  Newton will be different than Dedam will be different than Marblehead, but with any housing report we are looking at the trends and not the specifics. Spring is upon us, the smart buyers are out right now to capture the best deals.  What the risk here is that more houses will come on the market which it true and possible, but with more properties comes more buyers and right now in the luxury market in several price ranges activity through Jan and February of 2015 has been slow.  The time to strike a deal is now. ILH... 03/01/2015

Newton Luxury Housing Report Feb 13 2015. These statistics are gathered from the Greater Boston Association of Realtors® ,GBAR for it's MLS, multiple listing service.  MLSPIN.  Luxury is defined by the top ten percent of the Sold prices in a town.  The Luxury number begins at $2,100,000 in Newton Single Family Under Agreement Listings: 3    Avg. Liv.Area SqFt: 5,561.00     Avg. List$: $2,998,000    Avg. List$/SqFt: $550     Avg. DOM: 200.67     Avg. DTO: 78.67 Single Family Sold Listings: 7    Avg. Liv.Area SqFt: 6,629.29     Avg. List$: $3,169,414    Avg. List$/SqFt: $475     Avg. DOM: 101.29     Avg. DTO: 86.43    Avg. Sale$: $3,023,646   Avg. Sale$/SqFt: $452 114 Shornecliffe Road, Newton MA 02458 3 went UAG in the last 30 days.  The DOM is 200.67. This follows what the ILMS is showi... 02/23/2015

Best of Newton Luxury 114 Shornecliffe Road, 2014. Over the last couple of weeks we have shared a number of new stories and more details on ongoing stories. A 2 minute video tour of the property is one of our recent favorites.  It is a way to walk through, around and from above this property and house. Luxury in Newton MA begins at a price point of $2,100,000.  MLSPIN the local MLS for Newton shows, Single Family Sold Listings: 38    Avg. Liv.Area SqFt: 5,928.05     Avg. List$: $2,862,026    Avg. List$/SqFt: $536     Avg. DOM: 121.03     Avg. DTO: 84.16    Avg. Sale$: $2,775,370   Avg. Sale$/SqFt: $520 for 2014. Single Family Under Agreement Listings: 7    Avg. Liv.Area SqFt: 6,810.57     Avg. List$: $3,551,143    Avg. List$/SqFt: $534     Avg. DOM: 96.57     Avg. DTO: 91.43 What this i... 02/10/2015