Home For Sale, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod11 Thora Lane, South Yarmouth, MA MLS#21205827 3 bedrooms 2.5 bathrooms 2,424 square feet, near acreDestination Realty Group at William Raveis Real Estate508-503-4435 joe@MyDestinationRealtyGroup.com If you are looking for tranquility and privacy, then this Home For Sale, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod is to be your place.  This Home For Sale, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod is situated on over an acre of land that is wooded and private. A lightly used colonial, used only 6 months a year since 1997, this Home For Sale, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod needs little if any updating.  This Home For Sale, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod home is impeccable. The main floor flows from one room to another. The upstairs has all three bedrooms. The master bedroom has a large walk-in cl... 08/04/2012

Bass River Waterfront With Deepwater Dock Warm Sunshine On Your Shoulders....            5 bedroom, 4 bath Waterfront on Cape Cod! Spectacular Bass River property. Cape style waterfront home with a private guest house. The main house has four bedrooms with fabulous water views; a gourmet kitchen - granite counter tops and custom cabinets; a living room with a floor to ceiling stone fireplace; a theater room; beautiful wood and ceramic floors; and a finished lower level. The detached two car garage has a one bedroom guest house above it with its own water views. The dock is private, 40 feet long, deepwater and allows direct access to Nantucket Sound, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Islands.$1,590,000 more information            04/09/2011

Cantara Home Solutions, South Yarmouth, MA 02664 - Cape Cod Local Shout-out TODAY'S LOCAL SHOUT OUT: TODD CANTARA CANTARA HOME SOLUTIONS OLD TOWNHOUSE RD. SOUTH YARMOUTH, MA 02664 The other day I set out on a quest for a window to replace a door in my garage. I had some very simple qualifications, and after looking around at the usual suspects, I came across Todd Cantara of Cantara Home Solutions. He had exactly what I needed at just about what I wanted to pay, and in talking with Todd I found he offered a range of services very helpful to anyone looking to buy or sell a house on Cape Cod. On his business card for Cantera Home Solutions Todd lists three things he does - 'Improvement' and 'Remodeling', as you would expect, but in addition, 'Assessment'. This is the service that might be ... 09/03/2010

Mortgage Rates on July 6, 2010 - Improving, or...? Here are some of the events affecting mortgage rates today: What Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) Are Doing Today: The price of the FNMA 30-Year 4.0% MBS coupon opened at 101.25 this morning - the same as Friday's close. At 9:30 AM, the 4.0% MBS coupon was trading at 101.28 - up 1/32 from its opening. Remember, on mortgage backed securities (MBSs), as the price goes up, the yield comes down - and so do mortgage rates. I expect that mortgage rates will be the same in price this morning as compared to Friday. Price Trend in Mortgage Backed Securities: The chart below shows the price trend of the FNMA 30-Year 4.0% coupon over the past 30 days from 6-6-2010 to 7-6-2010: Economic Reports, News, and Events Affecting Mortgage Interest Rates To... 07/06/2010

The Trend in Home Sales in South Yarmouth MA - Improving, or...? Home prices in South Yarmouth continue to fall! They've fallen 12.7% since May of 2009, and have fallen 31.3% since May 2005 The current average listing price of homes for sale in South Yarmouth MA is $499,831, down 5.4% from a month ago. Compare this to the current median sales price of $230,000 - where half of sales are above this amount and half below it. 2 and 3 bedroom homes are selling for less while 4 bedroom homes have risen slightly in price recently. Below is a chart of the trend of median prices of homes for sale in South Yarmouth MA over the past year through May 2010: South Yarmouth Recently Sold Homes The number of sales have for all styles of homes have been cyclical and have been relatively flat over the pa... 07/06/2010

On Cape Cod, In South Yarmouth, Jobs Are Scarce But Real Estate is an Opportunity Here in South Yarmouth, by the little Dancing Brook in the middle of Cape Cod, it's like the rest of the country - jobs are scarce and real estate is an opportunity. Having been born and raised on Cape Cod, I have been immersed in the development and selling of real estate on Cape Cod since infancy. My Dad was a broker in Hyannis since way before I was born, and through my childhood he bought a land with buddies, subdivided and sold it off. In elementary and high school (Barnstable High School, '74) my friends parent's were mostly developers, builders, brokers or something to do with real property. On Cape Cod since time immemorial, a major form of entertainment is driving around and remembering when this ... 05/21/2010

Even Though My Cape Cod Favorite Was Eliminated, American Idol is a Great Story, and We Are A GREAT PEOPLE I live on Cape Cod, in South Yarmouth, a hop skip and jump away from the home of American Idol contestant Siobhan Magnus, who lives in the town where I grew up. On Route 28, a little bit south of here, the Picadilly Deli had a "vote Siobhan" sign in front of the restaurant. Those signs were all over the place a few weeks ago. Having a top ten American Idol contestant from your area is a big deal -- even when she get eliminated. I'm not sure of any impact on real estate values, but the significance of Siohhan's accomplishment is evident even today, when the Cape Cod Times, our local newspaper, has a story about her return to the Cape. Tonight I watched the final three - Casey, Lee a... 05/19/2010

Oh no, My Cat's Sick ... and it's Saturday Night. To pet owners there's nothing worse than one of our beloved animals getting sick, unless it's when the cat gets sick ... and it's Saturday night. This really unnerving horror happened to us this past weekend - my beautiful Harry, who I call my 'Google' cat (put "cat" into Google and Harry is what shows up!!) was acting weird when we woke up on Saturday morning. He's usually bright and chipper, sitting on my chest, purring and occasionally giving me a gentle 'rowf' to let me know it's time to feed him, but this morning he just laid there, limp, warm and looking raggedy. His kitten (yes, Harry has his own little kitten to play with) jumped up to play, but he could only muster a half-hearted hiss, then he put his head back down and closed h... 05/06/2010

A Rose of Sharon completes the Circle of Life on Cape Cod. We're new in our little neighborhood, having moved to our little Dancing Brook ranch in Brookhaven (that’s in South Yarmouth, on Cape Cod) only three years ago. We haven’t met a lot of folks in the neighborhood, this being New England and all, although we have tried. One of the people we did meet I'll call "Laurie". She’s an older woman (I’m pretty sure she said she’s in her late eighties) who accomplishes more in a day than most people do in a week and is always looking for new and interesting things to try. She’s an avid gardener like myself, although Father Time has ordered her to reduce her hours a bit. I met Laurie on what started as a walk around the block. It was a glorious Mid-September day – all the fall flowers in bloo... 04/28/2010

NOT ALL REAL ESTATE IN SOUTH YARMOUTH INVOLVES ASSISTED LIVING Sometimes it seems that every real estate transaction in South Yarmouth involves assisted living, but they don't, at least not directly. There have been stories about people who move here for other reasons. The real estate stock in South Yarmouth contains a lot of affordable ranches built for retirees (see my previous article on Yarmouth). These well built homes continue to attract retirees, though many have turned into second homes for metropolitan Boston residents. These second homes may become retirement homes in the future, amd become involved with the assisted living market, but right now they are occupied only three or four months a year, contributing to very quiet neighborhoods, like Brookhaven. They also seem to help... 04/26/2010

HOW WILL OBAMACARE IMPACT ASSISTED LIVING ON CAPE COD? Cape Cod - Now that Obamacare is the law of the land it's time to take a look at this mega-law and try to gauge it's impact on our lives, and especially, what impact will Obamacare have on assisted living on Cape Cod?. This law is truly comprehensive - it will regulate every aspect of 'health' from cradle to grave, including assisted living on Cape Cod. The last major 'health' related mega-law was the Medicare/Medicaid duo, passed in 1965. These two laws had a dramatic affect on Cape Cod, and arguably the biggest impact of any Federal law on the Town of Yarmouth and the village of South Yarmouth, even down to the neighborhood where we live, Brookhaven. The impact was two-fold - new nursing homes popped up (there was no 'assisted liv... 04/23/2010

A TALE OF TWO LIVES: ASSISTED LIVING ON CAPE COD CAN BE DIFFICULT FOR MOM & DAD I was in the front yard, tending to the quickly blooming flowers and leafing bushes when a gentleman I had never me came into view, walking slowly with a cane. When he got within conversation distance, "Hi, how are you doing? The gardens are looking good. I haven't met you - my name is Harry. I live over there, next street over." In our little neighborhood on Cape Cod in South Yarmouth, the neighborhoods are fairly stable - usually homeowners leave by ambulance and don't return. He was the new guy in the neighborhood - bought the little two bedrooom sweetheart on the next street. His story has a relatively happy ending, but a great illustration that assisted living on Cape Cod can be difficult for Mom & Dad.... 04/23/2010

BY THE LITTLE DANCING BROOK, IN SOUTH YARMOUTH, ON CAPE COD, THE RANCHES ARE IN BLOOM   CAPE COD - On Dancing Brook Road, in "much sought after Brookhaven", right smack in the middle of Cape Cod, there are perhaps two hundred very similar little two to three bedroom ranches, all built within a few years of each other in the early 1970's. Since I was a kid growing up Hyannis I have loved driving through developments all over Cape Cod as they 'matured', to see changes that time (and individuality) bring -- certain properties get bigger and nicer, some go to hell, some don't seem to change at all.   The type of neighborhood where we live, near the crossing of Forest and Winslow Gray, north of 28, with it's profusion of well kept ranches, really isn't typical for Cape Cod (where there are a... 04/16/2010

THE MOVE TO ASSISTED LIVING ON CAPE COD INVOLVES AGING, REAL ESTATE AND TRUST CAPE COD - The decision to move to assisted living on Cape Cod involves aging, real estate and trust. It's a journey through the nexus of aging, the cost of health, real estate prices, college educations and sometimes twisted family issues. It can be a time of resignation, guilt and betrayal, but it can be a time of relief, appreciation and love. Generally, the process of the move to assisted living on Cape Cod involves at least two real estate transactions, finding a facility that acknowledges the needs of aging residents and the drawing of some type of trust to protect any assets. There will be many opportunities for lawyers, brokers and trusted representatives during this process. Remember, the move to assi... 04/14/2010

Home Value Update for South Yarmouth MA 02664 Through February 2010 According to Trulia.com, the current average listing price of homes for sale in South Yarmouth, MA is $503,570, while the current mean sales price of homes is $222,350. Sale prices of single family homes in South Yarmouth, MA have fallen 14.5% in the past year through the end of February 2010,and have fallen 25.9% in the last 5 years. Below is a chart of the trend of median sales prices of homes in South Yarmouth, MA, in the past year through February 2010: South Yarmouth Recently Sold Homes If you're looking to purchase a home or condo in South Yarmouth or the surrounding area, then try this home search. 03/28/2010