Cambridge MA Real Estate

It's almost house tour season!  Whether you're an old house enthusiast, or you're in search of decorating ideas, or just curious about the beautiful houses in town - house tours are just the ticket. If spring has already come to your area perhaps house tours have already started. Lucky you! In th...

I have to admit I'm a bit of an impulse buyer when it comes to real estate.  Every time I've purchased a property it happened on the fly - very quickly, often with other bidders in the wings.  I know what I like and I tend to move quickly. The first house I bought already had two offers by the ti...

"How's the real estate market?" everybody asks.  Often my answer is "It's all relative." Real estate is selling, in fact we're having a busy spring market.  But what that means to you really depends on your situation. I did a market analysis recently for a family who had owned a multi-family prop...

When I started in real estate I became a big fan of real estate coaches and motivational speakers.  Ever in search of more techniques or just some good motivation I began to collect tapes by all the gurus.   Much of my collection I picked up on ebay - I had searches set up for all the names I cam...

Game.. or time waster... or brain exerciser... or creativity booster... Take your pick! It's the Google Image Labeler.  My new favorite. Image Labeler is Google's way of using the power of the community to improve image search results. And after spending so much time searching for images online f...

Storage is often a premium in the city - anywhere for that matter.  Many of us have more stuff than places to stash it. Often when I show single families to home buyers we'll find a hatch to an attic in an upstairs hall or closet.  But many homeowners haven't used the space - usually because an a...

My google alert pulled up a story that caught my eye today. It was an article from a Montana newsaper about musician Martin Sexton.  I'm not familiar with his music but the article notes that John Mayer called Sexton the "greatest live performer he'd ever seen". Turns out Sexton turned to music a...

More than once when showing real estate in Cambridge Mass. I've come across chickens - and a rooster or two - in nearby backyards. It's a surprising and delightful sight in the city. Luckily Cambridge does not prohibit raising chickens. With the increasing emphasis on eating locally produced food...

Realtors in the Greater Boston area jump at the chance to hear Karl Case, or "Chip" as he's known, speak about the economy and the real estate market.  He's a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and cofounder of the Case-Shiller index that tracks changes in real estate prices.  Tomorrow n...

Erica Ramus' post Who's the Buyer, reminding us that buyers may like a property even when we don't - and that's OK, reminded me of the first time I was a homebuyer. My first house had been owned by only one family before me - and it was built in 1865.  It was sweet as can be and hadn't been updat...