What is included when I sell my house?

Just a quick reminder that I am licensed in Massachusetts, so if you've found this page from another state, your state may have different rules.

When you sell a house, what's included? This sounds like an easy question, but …

The Local Real Estate Market in 3 Charts

When you think about it, real estate has 3 elements to it. How much does it cost? How competitive is the market? and Which town is a good place to put my Money? Congratulations, I have all those answers for you in …

Primary Pricing Factors for Real Estate Sales

There are all sorts of factors that go into pricing your home. Here are the main ones. I'm focusing here on the "Exterior" things that factor in to a homes listed price, not the "nuts and bolts" aspect of it, which is …

Make your Home Purchase Dollars go Further

I've noticed that a lot of new buyers are coming in the market - but with the rise in prices, finding something has gotten decidedly tougher for everyone.

Here are the towns that I track most closely on the blog. But …

Real Estate Has its own Vocabulary

Real Estate is a huge, complex industry. Just like anything else that you spend time at, the more you do, the more you know, and the greater the level of detail that you see. One of the first barriers that anyone must overcome when …

I thought I'd update the bounce in price graph that I did a six months ago.

There some interesting things that we see when we look at the old chart and the new one back to back. Let's take a look!

Update Price Changes Since 2012 …

Where the Imbalance is greatest for home buying in Metrowest

It has been a while since I've updated this chart, and boy how the numbers have grown.

Last year's post is here, but I'll put the two graphs next to each other here so people can …

The HSI vs. my Home Price Change Graph

Any reader on this blog has probably become familiar with my HSI metric. My Home Selling Index is designed to give you an update window on what buyers and sellers are doing in that market as close to real time as I …

Pictures of a Flipped Kitchen

A key part of Selling your home is getting your home ready to sell.  For properties that need work, that process is called rehab, and quick rehabs where the homeowner owns the property for …

Highest Home Prices in Metrowest

Any regular reader of this blog knows that I feel that in aggregate, $/sq foot is a much better metric to look at home expense than the more commonly used metric, median sales price. Median sales prices move around too much, and can hide …