Real Estate

Waiting game? Prices in 2007 vs 2010
Turn off pop-up blocker, and click on table for larger image. The Boston Globe is asking readers whether prices will keep falling, remain steady, or begin to rise again in 2007. We asked our blog readers a similar question last...

Cape Cod Bubble Map documents sales below assessed value
Curious that yesterday's cover story in the Boston Globe, The Summer of their Discontent, did not include the word "housing" or "real estate" despite the reports by one blogger "that home sales on Cape Cod were off some 20.1% year...

Are seller concessions masking deeper discounts on sales prices?
Side-by-side competition driven by the rising inventory of unsold homes across Massachusetts is creating a new kind of bidding war: escalating financial incentives to help sell homes as soon as possible. Some time ago, the local MLS added a new...

Industry's seller bias understates risk to homebuyers
Kudos to the Boston Herald for asking "Has the Mass. housing bubble burst?" on their front page this morning. If homebuyers focus on median sales prices, they might reach the same conclusion the Massachusetts Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR) did...

CAUTION: You are entering "The Bubble Spin Zone"
"You're traveling to another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound... but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are only that of the imagination... you're entering... the Bubble Spin Zone." Reading some assessments of...

Add properties to bubble map before "Un-conference"
Exactly one year ago today, the Real Estate Cafe participated in a radio broadcast entitled, "The Beginning of the End of the Bubble" which featured some of our recorded interviews. Today, we celebrated that anniversary with more good news: the...

Bubble Map comments reveal surprising price corrections
It hasn't taken long for the Real Estate Bubble Map's first user to go from their first post to their first dozen as shown on the image above and their interactive "places" map. If you visit their map and view...

1st user documents falling housing prices on Bubble Map
The first user has added two local properties to an experimental Real Estate Bubble Map created by The Real Estate Cafe to involve consumers in the process of tracking falling housing prices. Located at 21 and 30 Walker Street in...

Launching Real Estate Bubble Map
The map may take a couple seconds to load. REVISED POST on our main blog, please comment there (or on our new experimental Real Estate Bubble Map wiki). Following our earlier blog post about properties selling for below their assessed...

Homes selling for below assessed value in Greater Boston
During the past three months, March through May 2006, another trend has emerged signaling the end of the housing boom in Greater Boston: nearly one in four single family homes is selling for below assessed value, according to an analysis...