Vincent Spoto's (marealestate) Blog

“If you don’t own a home buy one." ”If you own one home, buy another one, and if you own two homes buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy a home.”   This is a quote from John Paulsonan incorporated in an article published in Businessinsider. Its worth reading and passing along. htt...

HubSpot's Website Grader is an interesting tool to help answer how your web site stacks up against your competition. It is easy to use and free. I always have some angst about our performance but seeing that our site PinnacleHouses.com rates higher than 96% of all web sites is reassuring. I sugge...

It is nice to see some positive analysis of why now might be the right time to consider a home purchase. This Time Magazine article reproduced on the WSJ site is realy worth reading and forwarding to your buyers. 10 Reasons to Buy a Home

As an independent trying to keep up with all the new products is time consuming. While the vendors have a interest in putting the best "spin" on their offerings I would think it immensely helpful to share experiences among users. I am interested in OODLE Pro. They claim to syndicate listings to o...

An interesting link on a Zillow page is the Zestimate® Values & Accuracy link at the footer. This gets you to a table that reports the accuracy of Zestimate calculations. It is to their credit that Zillow is providing this information because it gives accuracy expectations to computer generated e...

Do you think that other industries have so many new and ever changing technology products? As an owner of a small independent real estate firm in Wellesley, MA I am always concerned about staying technologically current. However to do this requires experimenting with many products and application...

Featured on the Wellesley Kitchen Tour this property is better than new! Coffered and tray ceilings, exquisite details and built-ins, exceptional stone work, sunken stone patio, and storybook playhouse. Click the link for listing information 49 Chesterton Road, Wellesley or review the video

At the Inman Connect conference last week Zillow announced that their Zestimates were getting better now achieving an accuracy of within 5% for 25% of the homes evaluated. They also said that they are within 10% of the sales price for 50% of the estimates and within 20% of the sales price for 75%...