"Oh my God, an honest real estate agent."
By Melissa Ostrom & Melville Capps Newton MA - The Mel and Mel Team
((617) 388-3151 | Century 21 Commonwealth)
Recently Melissa was working an open house, and was talking with people who stopped by. One couple was going over the listing brochure and they were asking questions about it. Melissa was explaining what the various items on it meant. She explained that there were two numbers on it that they needed to look at as they looked at homes to buy. The first was the listing price, and the second was the assessed value. She explained that the assessed value was set by the city last December. She told them that they had to ask themselves, and the sellers, why the listing price was so much higher than the assessed value. She explained there often are real reasons why the listing price may be much higher than the assessed value, such as increasing market prices (not really the case here), or the s...
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