Over on the national blog, we just posted another big analysis of hundreds of thousands of listings and sales. Here are the numbers for Boston, where winter is still a winning time to list your home for a quick sale, a better chance of selling, and a better price: Read More
It’s time for our monthly check-in of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). The Case-Shiller data is generally considered to be the most reliable measure of overall home price changes for a region, since they only consider repeat sales of homes when calculating their index, instead of looking at all the homes that sold in… Read More
It’s time for our monthly check-in of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). The Case-Shiller data is generally considered to be the most reliable measure of overall home price changes for a region, since they only consider repeat sales of homes when calculating their index, instead of looking at all the homes that sold in… Read More
Greetings, Redfinnians! This month we rolled out a new and improved version of our monthly insider report. “But where is it,” you ask. Ahh, well this new report is available via email-only, and was sent out to a group of registered users who have saved searches or favorites in select neighborhoods. We’ll be expanding the… Read More
Before we get going with this month’s Case-Shiller post, I’d like to apologize for the lack of an update last month. Long story short, this particular duty slipped through the cracks while I was out on leave. We heard from a number of readers who were lamenting the missing post. Rest assured, we have heard… Read More
Greetings Redfinnians, The summer sales wave has crested and not in July as we had expected. Turns out, June was this year’s high water mark. Not surprising, but it’s certainly off from previous years where July has been the monster month for home buying. We’re now seeing sales trailing off in most areas, while inventory… Read More
Recently, the Boston-area Redfin office spent some time volunteering our time with the Dorchester Boys & Girls Club. For those of you who haven’t experienced this incredible organization, the Boys & Girls Club provides area youth with much-needed activities in a positive environment. In this particularly violent and hot summer, these brave people truly make… Read More
Five Redfin local agents ranked in the top ten of the 6,777 buyers agents in Eastern Massachusetts that closed deals in the second quarter of 2011. We pulled these numbers from MLSPIN, the database for real estate transactions and listings for Massachusetts, and ranked agents who represented home-buyers of single-family homes, condominiums and multi-family buildings in… Read More
It’s time for our monthly check-in of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). The Case-Shiller data is generally considered to be the most reliable measure of overall home price changes for a region, since they only consider repeat sales of homes when calculating their index, instead of looking at all the homes that sold in… Read More
Redfin’s monthly Boston real estate insider report draws from our proprietary database of information on homes for sale and that just sold, along with insight from our agents to get a sense of what’s going on in the market right now. If you’d like to receive the report via email, just sign up. Greetings Boston… Read More