Bill Tierney's South Shore Real Estate Blog

Scituate Homes for Sale showed continued price improvement for the month ending December 2010 when compared to the similar period a year prior.  This is a slightly better performance than was seen in neighboring towns. Last month, ending 12/31/2010, we saw 13 homes sell at an average sales price ...

Prices were a little softer in Marshfield this past December compared to the same period a year ago.  With that said, the more recent December did not have  the benefit of The First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit and what was thought to be it's expiration at the month's end.  So last month we saw 12 ...

What a difference a year makes.  In December of 2009, while buyers were scrambling to meet what was thought to be the 12/31 dead line for the first version of the First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit, we saw 14 homes sell at an average sales price of just over $1.12 Million Dollars. These homes had ...

Okay, so here is my not so original comment on New Year's Resolutions.  And I don't think I will be the only one writing about resolutions today.  Frankly, it is hard to avoid someone spouting about New Year's Resolutions on January First.  The various forms of media have been littered with sound...

Okay, we have a couple of weeks left in 2010, and there are some year end things to do to begin to get your financial house in order.  I am talking tax time items.  So why is a licensed REALTOR pointing out year and first quarter tax items? Good question.  The answer is simple, having your financ...

The Hingham Shipyard has a new retailer, "6 in the Shipyard" which has opened at The Launch at Hingham Shipyard. The businesses is owned by six local business women who have partnered to open a shared retail boutique called 6 in the Shipyard. The boutique features accessories, jewelry, clothing, ...

Last month the Hingham condo market showed some very mixed results.  So much so that it is hard to come away with any tangible items of note.  For November of 2009 Hingham saw three condos sell at an average sales price of $267,833 or $273 per square foot.  For the same period this year the Hingh...

The Marshfield condo market continued to chug along showing a relative firmness in pricing on slightly softer volume.  For the month of November 2010,  we saw four condos sell at an average sales price of $263,500 or $198 per square foot.  This is fair comparison to the November period of 2009 th...

The Hull Condo market showed that it has continued its anemic pace turning in only one more sale this past November than in the same period one year prior.  Even with volume doubling, from one unit to two sold units, prices remained firm, or withing a ten percent band.  The one unit that sold in ...

The Wemouth Real Estate Market saw a slow down in the volume of sold condos for the month of November 2010 compared to the year prior.  Last month we saw 7 condos sell at an average sales price of $184,250 or roughly $195 per square foot.  In the same month one year prior, we saw an astounding 30...