Weeds are not just plants in the wrong place! Last week, I wrote about Japanese Knot Weed. It’s a bad, bad weed that damages buildings. There’s another baddy that has been plaguing local gardens for years. It grows very fast. The thing that matters the most is that it is harmful to pollinators, especially monarch
There are a lot of invasive weeds in Massachusetts. Knotweed is the worst. It is spreading along waterways and is often seen along the community trails. It is all over the Alewife Reservation and other preserved areas. Knotweed is one of many plants that spread underground and pop up along cracks in sidewalks and asphalt.
The fire on a porch in Somerville forced ten people to evacuate their home in the early hours of May 25, 2023. It was a few days before Memorial Day. Since summer is here, it is time to remind everyone that June is Porch Fire Safety Month and porch fires ruin houses (and sometimes hurt
I got a real estate call from my tech assistant who lives in another state. He was in love with a property and thought it was overpriced. Could I help? Here is his story: Prospective Buyer: His rent is going up $200 a month. His current place is very nice, but truth be told, it
Our buyers realize the difference an exclusive buyer’s agent makes as soon as they go out house hunting with us. Because we never represent sellers – and no one in our office does, either – we don’t have a stake in which house or condo you buy. We are there for you to get the
As buyer’s agents, we work with a lot of household formation. We also find ownership opportunities for new households, and established ones. Household formation is the term for the point in life when a person leaves one household and sets up their own household. Happy Mother’s Day! The biggest reason that households change their living
We’re in the discouraging time of the real estate year, as buyer’s agents. April and May are the peak months for competition among buyers for properties for sale. In other words, bidding war season. There are bidding wars all year, but more so in the spring. As properties are coming onto the market (which began
The Boston Globe real estate reporters throw data at their readers without enough explanation. That’s where I come in. Larry Edelman packed a lot into his recent article, “Where Mass. home prices are hot – and not.” Here is the translation for buyers in Spring 2023. These data sets are year over year – last
I attend talks on the real estate economy as often as I can. When they are sponsored by the Realtors®, I translate them back to the needs of buyers, not owners. In a March 22 presentation, this slide stood out for me. Why is metro Boston in such a mess of a seller’s market? This
It’s spring in real estate, so it is time for a quick primer on how to read the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and alternate real estate listing sites. What does UAG mean? What does RAC mean? Most of our clients “web around” to sites like Zillow and Realtor.com to look at images of properties for