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Open Houses Saturday
15Nov
Cambridge and Somerville Open Houses for Sunday, November 8th and 9th
Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 06:37AM The list of OPEN HOUSES for this weekend has been posted here. Happy house hunting!
Tuesday
07Oct
Boston Business Journal Article on Mortgage Data
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 09:44AM This week's Boston Business Journal has an interesting blurb on mortgage data:
"...Mortgage volume was off by about 30 percent year over year, suggesting that sales data may be especially weak for September.
The Business Journal analyzed the number of mortgages reported with the Registry of Deeds during the first 15 business days of September and compared the figure for the same period the previous year. The number of mortgages — which includes residential and commercial properties — in Suffolk County fell 33 percent to 608, according to information from the Registry of Deeds Web site. The northern section of Middlesex County saw a 32 percent decline in mortgages to 369 during the same period.
Banking experts say September’s drop in mortgage activity, coming on the heels of an already moribund stretch in home sales over the previous 18 months, is likely due to skittishness among potential buyers — not tightened lending standards among local lenders."
Saturday
04Oct
Open Houses Sunday, October 5th
Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 07:40AM The list of OPEN HOUSES for this weekend has been posted here. Happy house hunting!
Tuesday
23Sep
Three great speakers
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 03:52PM Okay - this isn't about real estate, but I'm really on a roll - three posts in one day! If that's not evidence of a slow market, I don't know what is...
This fall there are going to be three great speakers at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education in Harvard Square and I wanted to give "Cambridge Insiders" a heads up - they should all be thoughtful and insightful discussions with people who are leading their respective fields.
Thursday, September 25th: Padraig O'Malley, Achieving Peace and Reconciliation: From Belfast to Baghdad (click for more info)
Thursday, October 2nd: Peter Senge, Author of The Fifth Discipline - The Necessary Revolution: Creating a Sustainable World (click for more info)
Thursday, November 20th: Slow Medicine: Dr. Dennis McCullough in conversation with Globe Columnist Judy Foreman (click for more info)
Tuesday
23Sep
New York Times Real Estate Q&A
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 01:02PM Click here to check out this article from the New York Times Real Estate section. Basic and interesting advice about the climate for mortgages right now.
Tuesday
23Sep
Trulia for iPhone
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 12:59PM Attention all iPhone users and real estate mavens - get yourselves to the App Store and download the free app from Trulia! It is very elegant and simple and incredibly useful - even from a broker's perspective. Once there's complete ubquity perhaps I can even stop uploading the open houses PDF every Saturday!
Saturday
20Sep
Open Houses September 21
Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 03:52PM The list of OPEN HOUSES for this weekend has been posted here. Happy house hunting!
Friday
12Sep
Open Houses September 13 and 14
Friday, September 12, 2008 at 10:22AM The list of OPEN HOUSES for this weekend has been posted here. Happy house hunting!
Monday
08Sep
A look at median prices
Monday, September 8, 2008 at 01:04PM When I posted last week's chart showing the decline in sales by unit volume, a number of you asked how median prices were being affected. The chart below shows the answer - not much. The median price for a single family home in Cambridge has inched up by about 2% and condos and multi-family homes have inched down by 3.7% and 2%, respectively. It is interesting that we're in an environment where the volume is off 20-30% and the median prices are relatively unscathed.
Saturday
06Sep
Open Houses September 6 and 7
Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 06:47AM The list of OPEN HOUSES for this weekend has been posted here. Happy house hunting!
Friday
05Sep
Big changes afoot!
Friday, September 5, 2008 at 03:46PM Big changes around here! We're updating the Cambridge Insider to provide a new design with cleaner interface, better navigation and more information. Please bear with us as we update the site - if you experience any glitches please let me know and I'll endeavor to work out the kinks. I'd love to hear your feedback on the new site!
Wednesday
03Sep
Cambridge Market Snapshot
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 08:51AM Some data from the end of August - a bit bleak but we're improving the pace - August 08 was only 3 units off of August 07 (in condos) and August 08 was 3 units ahead in single families.
Friday
29Aug
OPEN HOUSES AUGUST 30 and 31
Friday, August 29, 2008 at 08:49PM The list of OPEN HOUSES for this weekend has been posted here. Happy house hunting!
