At long last, some good news from the IRS. It is now okay to have a limited personal use of a property that you will use for a 1031 Exchange. An exchange allows you to sell a piece of real estate held for investment and purchase another “like kind” property and defer the payment of […]

During this 1/2 hour live call in show, we discuss why some houses aren’t selling in today’s market and what you can do about it.

Why Didn’t My House Sell
Updates on the Greater Boston Market
How to Have It Sell, Not Sit

You can listen below or click to download the MP3 file: Download MP3 Why Isn’t […]

One of the pieces of last week’s economic stimulus package is a temporary increase in FHA (Federal Housing Administrations) loan limits. The current FHA loan limit of $362,790 for Middlesex County meant that a lot of our market couldn’t use FHA programs. Although the new limits haven’t been announced yet, it looks like the temporary […]

Are you thinking of taking advantage of the decline in the market to purchase an investment property? Well, thanks to some upcoming changes by two of the country’s largest private mortgage companies, you’ll have to have a higher down payment.

MGIC and PMI Group will soon be requiring a minimum of a 10% down payment on […]

All of the latest news about the real estate market sounds so doom and gloom. Yes, there are mortgage companies that have closed their doors and there are less loan programs available. One of the types of loans that has disappeared is the 100% financing, stated income programs. A stated income program lets someone say, […]