Is it a good time to buy in Boston? As we pass the midpoint of another year, the questions around market dynamics seem as pressing as ever. The momentum across markets points toward an economic recession while housing markets nationally have begun to see changes,...
The chart below shows an interesting flow to the pricing and deal velocity in the market over the last several years with an obvious anomalous year in 2020. It's no secret that the city was "off" during the heights of Covid-19 but what's surprising, at least from the...
To say it bluntly, the Boston luxury real estate market is far from “perfect!” Don’t blame Zillow, they’ve made vast strides to make information about the housing market easier to come by for consumers. In conjunction with Redfin and Realtor.com, these are the three...
The Boston rental market has historically been stable. Like the rest of the world, during the spring of 2020, the rental market took a hit. Now, more than a year later the rental market is stronger than ever. For years, we have seen bidding wars throughout the city...
Thank you for your interest in our third annual “Boston Luxury Real Estate Review.” As we wrote our report in late 2019 and early 2020, little did we know what was looming ahead of us! Alas, here we are a year later and looking at a market that is, by most accounts,...
Even before we had a Presidential election for the ages, 2020 has been a year of the utmost uncertainty. We know how the pandemic shifted the real estate market (Q3: State Of The Market) earlier this year but today’s topic has to do with the recent election and how it...
On March 16th when the world halted activity due to the Coronavirus outbreak many wondered if Boston would prove its anti volatility once again. While it might be too early to tell, one key patterned we noticed was a shift in the type of product consumers are buying. ...
Like clockwork, July 4 brings hot weather and a serious slow down in our Boston luxury real estate market. In case you hadn’t noticed, this year (2020) is different… Not on the weather front but definitely on the real estate front! We’ve made it through the month of...
We’re into the middle of May and maybe, just maybe, the light at the end of the stay at home advisory tunnel is brightening. It’s been a long spring, to say the least! We hope you are hanging in there... Turning our focus to Boston’s luxury real estate markets, we can...
1. Beginning Steps To secure the best apartment options one should connect with a local real estate agent who is familiar with the rental process in Boston. Unfortunately, the rental process has become challenging over the years as supply/demand economics have favored...
