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Typical is Boring, but When Selling a Home, Effective

A recent Redfin Forums contributor raised the question: Does a higher buyers’ agent commission = faster sale? From Baltimore to Seattle to Southern California, real estate agents and journalists have endorsed the idea of offering unusually large commissions so buyer’s agents will recommend a listing. Because we’re curious masochists, we decided to answer that question.

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Bay Village: Not the South End

Most of Boston’s neighborhoods posses a defining quality usually summed up in a word or two: Beacon Hill, money; Back Bay, fashion; North End, food. Bay Village, however, lacks any simple word-association. Moreover, most couldn’t begin to describe Bay Village because nobody knows it exists, not even most Boston residents. Those who mention Bay Village

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The View From the Ground Is That Buyers Are Calling the Shots

So, according to Forbes, Berkeley is the second most overpriced suburb (ouch that word hurts) in the United States of America. Why? Because it takes 14.7 years of total earned salary for the median-income ($51,256) Berkeley household to afford the median priced home ($752,500). While the report accepts these figures might be distorted by the

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