Should You List Your Boston Home This Fall or Wait?

Should you list your Greater Boston home this fall or wait until spring 2026? If your plan was to wait for lower mortgage rates, the data no longer supports it.  The 30-year fixed averaged 6.76% the week of September 10, 2026, even reaching 7%, and both Fannie Mae and the Mortgage Bankers Associatio

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The Pricing Mistakes Costing Greater Boston Sellers the Most Money

What's the biggest pricing mistake Greater Boston sellers make? The most common mistake is overpricing at list to "leave room to negotiate," which causes a listing to sit unnoticed through its first two weeks, exactly when buyers watch most closely, and then forces a price cut that reads as a red fl

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How Much Does It Actually Cost to Sell a Home in Boston?

How much does it cost to sell a home in Greater Boston? On a $1,000,000 sale in Boston, Brookline, Newton, Needham, Dedham, or Milton, a seller typically pays around $55,000 in commission and the Massachusetts deed excise tax combined, roughly 5.5% of the sale price, before accounting for repairs, s

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