This is the time of year I am asked by clients, friends and basically anyone who knows I'm in real estate to pull out my crystal ball and...

Last October I gave a rundown on the legal battles in the real estate industry around how commissions are paid, and a few potential...

Years ago I used to do annual blog posts on the relative value of homes in our market year-over-year, but it's been a while since I've...

This is a quick update to a post I ran in April, on the subject of "wow -- things are slow for peak spring market." Activity seemed to...

So here we are on April 18, squarely in the middle of what is traditionally "peak" spring market. And yet things feel really slow. I've...

Here's the problem with working in real estate: you fall in love with a lot of houses. Or at least I do. And it always bums me out when a...

It's hard to make sense of the current market. REALLY hard. I keep reading things in the news about home sale prices going down, more...

I assume by now that most of you have at least passing knowledge of the current law suits over commissions in the real estate industry,...

As Memorial Day approaches, we are entering what is typically the real estate summer doldrums. But perhaps this year no one will notice...

I'm sure it's news to no one that this week, the Fed made the largest interest rate increase since the early 90s in an attempt to rein in...

This spring, there are three major housing market themes in Cambridge, Somerville, Greater Boston, and Massachusetts generally -- low...

Now that we're solidly into March, it's officially spring and inventory is starting to pick up. That's the good news. The bad news (for...

... or maybe even a crazier real estate market than 2021, if you can imagine. Apparently we just wrapped up the hottest January of real...

It's so funny that 90% of the time before someone asks me what is going to happen with the market in the coming year, they precede it...

After more than a year of the ridiculously busy COVID real estate market, I gave myself the summer off. Making the decision felt a bit...

In case you're wondering how real estate is going so far in 2021, let me share a few anecdotes: Last weekend I showed some clients a...

It may be a crazy-scary-bad time for our country and the world, frankly, but there is a little glimmer of a silver lining for one segment...

Things have evolved since I first wrote on this topic back in March. Open houses are back, though not entirely, we all know the drill for...

The last time I wrote a blog post of substance was back in March, just after we’d gone into lockdown mode for the coronavirus. At the...

Updated March 29, 2020 This is now the third version of this post, which I've been revising as I learn more and things evolve and I...