Recent Sales In Beverly

I know it might not seem like it to the casual eye, but houses are, in fact, selling, and people are, in fact, buying them. It could have something to do with the fact that your other choices are a) a cardboard box, or b) an apartment that is every bit as expensive as it was before the bubble popped. You’d think rents would have to come down, right, but how many people have received letters from their landlords offering a rent decrease?

As I write this post, I’m in Nashville, TN. Unemployment is high, social services are poor, and you could buy 10,000 square feet for what I paid for 1,000.  I’m going to pass through Pittsburgh, and then east-central PA, on my way back to the land of jobs and cute little seaside houses, and the whole time, I’m going to be patting myself on the back for leaving a region that is as economically dead as the lair of Shelob, last bitter child of Ungoliant (I’m re-reading The Lord of the Rings….and I’m a huge geek). We may complain — about taxes, about government waste, about huge slabs of concrete falling on innocent people (yeah….I pretty much avoid using those tunnels, too, as even a mighty elven warrior might shun Shelob’s labyrinth. Call me irrational….), but we have it good. We live in a place people want to visit, where people dream of living, where unemployment rates are among the lowest in the US, and where many can earn 2-3 times what they can earn in other places. I saw a 278% increase in pay, for essentially the same job I was doing in Pittsburgh. Go Socks.

Anyhow, here’s some food for thought. Keep in mind that the recent sales you’re seeing are sales that most likely happened 2 or 3 months before they closed — these are winter bargains, and slough or no slough, prices will climb going into the summer.

55 KERNWOOD AVE BEVERLY, MA 01915

5 DOUGLAS AVE BEVERLY, MA 01915

52 HART ST BEVERLY, MA 01915

9 LINDEN AVE Unit A BEVERLY, MA 01915