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Actually the answer is both.   If you follow the news then the gloom and doom is everywhere. See http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/05/27/home_prices_sales_plunge_in_bay_state/?page=full to find out how bad things may be.  The flip side is if you are trying to buy a nice house, in a nic...

I've been a bit delinquent about updates here. I spent a month or more upgrading my website and getting some meaningful information posted to help anyone looking to buy or sell in the greater Lexington area. Please go and take a look over at www.GreatLexingtonHomes.com. I just finished updating t...

Woburn's single family home sales market showed some early seasonal volume strength but has weakened in the past two months. With August sales numbers in, volume is low, but prices remained level in August. The graph below shows a line for the median price and bars for the numbers of homes sold. ...

Waltham's single family home sales market  showed some seasonal volume strength but has weakened in the past month. With August sales numbers in, volume is slightly low, and prices remained level in August.  The graph below shows a line for the median price and bars for the numbers of homes sold....

Today the Boston Globe reported  a summary of the Warren Group's report on Massachusetts foreclosure activities.  ( http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2008/09/mass_foreclosur_13.html?s_campaign=8299 )  They report that "Foreclosure activity has doubled so far this year" and that there have bee...

Burlington's single family home sales market  showed some seasonal strength but has weakened in the past month or two. With August sales numbers in, volume is slightly low, and prices stumbled in August.  The graph below shows a line for the median price and bars for the numbers of homes sold. In...

 Bedford's single family home sales market  is having a strong summer, but may be running out of homes to sell. With August sales numbers in, the summer has been strong, volume is slightly low, but prices have been rising since the May low. The graph below shows a line for the median price and ba...

Lexington's single family home sales market continues to defy the national trends and is having a strong year. With August sales numbers in, the summer has been strong, volume is slightly low, but prices have been rising. The graph below shows a line for the median price and bars for the numbers ...

I recently had the pleasure of meeting a couple from Colorado. They made the comment of it being difficult to get used to the "green tunnels" and that they found it disorienting. I asked what they meant by ‘green tunnels' and they explained that the tree lined streets all looked the same to them ...

First a review of where we came from. For Arlington, Ma. the market volume peaked in 2006, and the prices peaked in 2005, at an annual median price of $503,000. Prices have shown approximately a 6% pullback since that time. The number of homes sold in 2006 was 314. In 2007, 290 homes sold so the ...