Massachusetts Home Buyer Guide - For MA Home Buyers, By An Exclusive Buyer Agent

Low mortgage interest rates have resulted in mortgage applications surging recently; however, a CNBC report indicates that many of the applications are from consumers leaving one mortgage broker or bank and applying with another to take advantage of lower rates. Hey ActiveRain mortgage professio...

Attorney General Martha Coakley has obtained a temporary restraining order against a Methuen, Massachusetts mortgage broker who allegedly preyed upon financially distressed homeowners by representing himself to be an attorney and a bankruptcy expert who offered to file bankruptcy petitions to sav...

It's not often the Internal Revenue Service comes up with a plan that would reduce tax revenues. Not wanting to be left out of the bailout party, the IRS has joined the fun. The kinder, gentler IRS announced a plan December 16, 2008 that would let homeowners off the hook for back taxes.Under the ...

Comparing the first 10 months of the year to the first 10 months of 2007, the median price of a single-family home in Billerica, Massachusetts has declined 8.6 percent from $350,000 to $320,000. The median price is down from $377,500 during the same period in 2005. Year    Median Price2005    $37...

Like most everything else in life and marketing, the latest technology tools only work, if you use them correctly. A video clip below featuring best-selling author and probably the most-read marketing guru Seth Godin. If you have not read any of Seth Godin's books, I suggest you start with Purple...

Since subprime lending has been extinct for nearly two years and most of those toxic loans made prior have already resulted in foreclosure, will the nation's recent spike in job cuts put borrowers holding more conventional loans at risk for foreclosure?Employers across the nation cut $535,000 job...

Sales of multi-family homes in Lawrence, MA, which have seen prices drop more than 40 percent in just the last year or so, surged during the first nine months of the year, up 351.6 percent from the same period in 2007, The Eagle-Tribune reported December 1, 2008. According MLS Property Informatio...

I came across this CNBC news clip about using models as real estate agents. The video is from 2007. Apparently the owner of a modeling agency in New York City decided to start a real estate company using the models as agents. Has anyone heard about whether this real estate company is doing well, ...

New home sales in the U.S. have plummeted to a pace not seen since 1991, and prices are at 2004 levels, USA Today reported November 26, 2008.  "The Commerce Department reported [November 25, 2008] that new-home sales decreased 5.3% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 433,000 ...

Bucking the trend in most Massachusetts communities, North Andover, MA posted a 3.9 percent increase in the median price of a single-family home through the first three quarters of of 2008 ($509,300) compared to the same nine-month period in 2007 ($490,000). The data comes from the MLS Property I...