Lexington Bedford Real Estate Blog

A friend of mine, Mary Mady, has been very successful in forming a new organization for adult education in the area.  The Bedford Learning Connection. Here is a brief on the programs and a web link to go see if you find anything that you would like to learn about.  The Bedford Learning Connection...

     So many MLS listings in Lexington, Bedford, Arlington and Cambridge promote ‘easy access to the bike path' or ‘next to the bike path,' as if everyone should know what a good thing that is! I thought it deserves an explanation of just what ‘the bike path' is, and why it is a good thing to be ...

First for reference the Lexington School web site: http://lps.lexingtonma.org/ Now my unsolicited, non-sanctioned comments. First let me say that they are as excellent as the reports say. I've had two daughters go all the way through and still have a son in High School and the quality of the educ...

First a review of where we came from. For Waltham, the market volume showed a steady increase from 2000 through 2005 where 316 units sold. Much of the volume increase was driven by building and multifamily to condo conversion activities. Price increases have slowed, but prices continued to rise t...

First a review of where we came from. For Woburn, the market volume peaked in 2003 and prices peaked in 2005, at an annual median price of $397,750. Prices have shown about an 11% pullback since that time. The number of homes sold in 2003 was 254. In 2007, 195 homes sold so the volume has fallen ...

First a review of where we came from. For Waltham, the market volume and prices peaked in 2005, at an annual median price of $435,000. Prices have shown about a 5% pullback since that time. The number of homes sold in 2005 was 337. In 2007, 269 homes sold so the volume has fallen off 20%. So far ...

First a review of where we came from. For Burlington, the market volume and prices peaked in 2004, at an annual median price of $420,000. Prices have shown only a 1% pullback since that time. The number of homes sold in 2004 was 213. In 2007, 171 homes sold so the volume has fallen off 20%. So fa...

First a review of where we came from. For Bedford, the market volume peaked in 2004, and the prices peaked in 2005, at an annual median price of $530,000. Prices have shown only a 1% pullback since that time. The number of homes sold in 2004 was 134. In 2007, 140 homes sold so the volume has in f...

First a review of where we came from. For Lexington, the market volume peaked in 2004, and the prices peaked in 2005, at an annual median price of $725,000. Prices have shown approximately a 4% pullback since that time. The number of homes sold in 2004 was 357. In 2007, 345 homes sold so the vol...

Today the market is not good, you want to move up, but will a little more time really change the financial picture?  Recent forecasts say that we will not return to the 2005 peaks until 2015....  Do you really want to wait another 7 years to make a move???? As I mentioned in my last post when inv...