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
If you are confused about the state of the real estate market, welcome to the club. A big part of why you are confused is bad reporting. There is so much of it! Every week, I am running across real estate headlines saying that real estate is about to crash and also that prices are
The first week of February is too early for the annual “scare the buyers” article from The Boston Globe. I guess it was a slow news cycle in the real estate division. This annual tradition of throwing together statistics without context usually occurs a bit later in the year. In 2017, it was at the
Many of our clients read The Boston Globe for real estate news. In an October 4, 2021 article, entitled “(Some) good news for buyers in Boston’s (slightly) cooling housing market,” Zoe Greenberg gave some hope that the post-lockdown housing boom is showing signs of going back to the seller-favoring conditions we have had since the
Annually, I expect poor reporting of the spring (busy) real estate market. For the past five springs, I have seen an annual "scare the buyers" article. This year, the facts just don't add up to scaring buyers, but they tried, anyway. On April 23, 2020, the Boston Globe had an article about how prices of