Across the board we are seeing tight inventory in Boston. When looking at South End YTD 2022 vs 2023, the number of units sold is down 38%, and the number of homes listed this day (March 9) last year vs this year is down 30% Traditional South End buyers prefer the...
From permitting to design to construction and through sales, developers know that there is no end to the list of decisions that must be made when building a multi-unit luxury condo development. At Columbus & Over Group, we know how critical it is that no detail is...
Through our experience selling new condominium developments in and around Boston, we’ve come to know and appreciate the idiosyncrasies of timing out our sales efforts. When played strategically, the sales team on a new development can capitalize on three individual...
It’s been a dramatic month in the local Boston real estate market. We’re seeing things happen that we haven’t seen in years… Namely, much higher interest rates. Most of the action in the market is being driven by a turbulent economy and the aforementioned rising...
It’s early September and Boston’s brokerage world is ramping up for what (we hope) will be a productive fall sales market. The summer months have come and gone with a rather flat state of affairs. The item that stands out the most between the two years is the...
Staging furniture into a vacant or otherwise under furnished home has the ability to make or break its prospects for a sale. The impact when you walk into a beautifully and functionally designed space can make your home irresistible to the modern home buyer, thus...
Across the nation, articles bemoan the lack of real estate inventory. While typically we encourage our Boston luxury real estate clients to de-emphasize, or even disregard, national housing headlines, this year the themes locally and nationally align: a very limited...
The chart below shows an interesting flow to the pricing and deal velocity in the market over the last several years with an obvious anomalous year in 2020. It's no secret that the city was "off" during the heights of Covid-19 but what's surprising, at least from the...
To say it bluntly, the Boston luxury real estate market is far from “perfect!” Don’t blame Zillow, they’ve made vast strides to make information about the housing market easier to come by for consumers. In conjunction with Redfin and Realtor.com, these are the three...
Is a Kitchen Renovation Worth the Effort to sell your home? As always: it depends! A kitchen has the ability to make or break the sale of a home. An upgraded, attractive kitchen can make your home irresistible to the modern home buyer thus yielding a lesser number of...
