Yearly Archives: 2011

BOSTON, MA - June 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With tornado damage covered by homeowners’ insurance, the Patrick-Murray Administration’s Division of Insurance is offering tips on the best way to file a claim with an insurance company to families who suffered damage in yesterday’s tornadoes and storms.

Concord, MA - May 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Barrett & Company Real Estate has expanded their mobile MLS IDX reach with the addition of a complimentary, custom Massachusetts Real Estate App for the iPad & iPhone. With Verizon's launch of the iPhone, Apple’s recent launch of iPad 2, and over 10 million iPads sold in 2010, Executive Director of Business Development, Jacob Clayton recognized the need to provide Barrett clients with an innovative new mobile IDX real estate search tool.

May 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With the arrival of summer finally upon us, The City of Springfield will, once again, team up with Daniel J. Flynn & Co., of Quincy, to hold its second auction of 2011. The portfolio for this auction includes twenty-seven (27) properties in tax-title possession and is scheduled for Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Registration begins at 5:00 P.M., and the auction will begin promptly at 6:00 P.M. The ballroom-style Auction will be conducted at Springfield City Hall located at 36 Court Street, Springfield, MA.

May 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- It's one of the most vexing -- yet explainable -- questions homeowners/property taxpayers face: How can it be that my home's value has gone down but my property tax bill has gone up?

BOSTON, MA - May 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing has awarded $150,000 in financing to help create or preserve affordable sober housing in Sandwich and Tewksbury.

BOSTON, MA - May 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing's Manager of Community Services Tom Lyons has been appointed to a national advisory committee on homeless veterans by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki

WALTHAM, MA - May 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Massachusetts Association of REALTORS® (MAR) reported today that the number of single-family homes and condominiums put under agreement in April went up for the third straight time compared to the month before. On an annual basis, both single-family and condominium pending sales were down from the same time last year, which was the final month for people to put a home under agreement to take advantage of the home buyer tax credit in 2010

Miami, FL - April 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federated Companies, a leading national real estate investment and development firm, is pleased to announce that it has purchased a 4.17 acre development project, Legacy Park Wakefield in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The project is a MGL 40-B mixed-income market rate/affordable rental community which will consist of two, four-story garden buildings and one, three-story townhome building containing 128 total units. The garden style unit's floor plans are a mix of one, two, and three bedroom layouts, and the units range in size from 842 to 1,230 square feet. Additionally, the project will include fourteen townhouse residences located in an adjacent three-story structure. The townhouses are three bedrooms, 1.5 baths, and 2,250 square feet. Construction is slated to begin in the next few weeks with completion scheduled for the first quarter of 2012 and pre-leasing at the end of 2011.

EUGENE, OR - April 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Estele Borges has become the latest announced real estate agent to adopt the IDX, Inc. premier IDX Broker software for her real estate website. She can now display thousands of Massachusetts MLS Property Information Network (MLSPIN) listings directly on her professional website. With the IDX solution she employs, Borges can present her clients with an innovative and comprehensive online real estate search. Home seekers will be able to experience the most thorough and dynamic online property search, conveniently on the website Borges hosts.

BOSTON, MA - April 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing announced $7.3 million in loan closings today for the acquisition and renovation of the Cheriton Grove Apartments, a 60-unit affordable housing community for senior citizens and disabled residents in West Roxbury.

Boston, MA - April 121, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced today that in the last decade (2000 – 2010), 20,500 new units of housing were produced in the City of Boston, 5,500 of which are affordable to low and moderate income households. The total number of housing units in Boston has increased by 8.2% from the prior decade and the number of new housing developments in the last decade exceed the number of housing starts for the past six decades.

EUGENE, OR - April 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Massachusetts MLS Property Info Network (MLSPIN) listings are now seamlessly integrated onto the website of agent Mark Holt, thanks to IDX, Inc. and the dynamic IDX Broker software. A customized IDX solution makes it so easy for Boston home seekers to search for properties online. With the website Holt now hosts, potential buyers can instantly search thousands of listings without ever leaving the convenience of the website Holt supports. Finding a Boston area home has never been so easy, thanks to the IDX enabled website of Holt and the detailed listings he presents to home seekers.

BOSTON, MA - April 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing announced $14.9 million in loan closings today to preserve affordability at the 110-unit Framingham Green Apartments in Framingham and the 150-unit Valebrook Apartments in Lawrence, which were in danger of converting to market rate rents

QUINCY, MA - March 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- 2011¡XSouth Shore residents in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure will soon have access to expanded foreclosure prevention counseling services through a joint initiative sponsored by the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds, Neighborhood Housing Services of the South Shore and the South Shore HOME Consortium.

Boston, MA - March 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Menino announced today that Boston, already a national leader in green building, will launch the Energy Positive "E+" Green Building Demonstration Program, a residential design and construction initiative to bring energy, environmentally, and equity positive green homes to Boston's neighborhoods. The program seeks to promote the future generation of home construction - combining high quality living space with clean energy production that helps power the neighborhood. E+ Green Buildings produce more energy than they use on an annual basis, giving energy back to the grid and saving homeowners money.