Want to Move to Massachusetts????

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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 1:35pm
Home Sales, Prices Up In Bay State

Mass. Single Family Home Averaged $367,350 In November

BOSTON -- Sales of condominiums and single-family homes were up in November compared to the same month last year, but homeowners are still having to dig deeper into their pockets, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported Tuesday.

The industry group's latest monthly figures show single family home prices were up 9.4 percent, to an average of $367,350 in November, compared to $335,813 last year. Condominium prices rose 4.8 percent to $264,985 from $252,964 in November 2002.

Condominium sales rose 14.1 percent, to 1,170, in November compared to the same month in 2002, while sales of detached single-family homes rose 4.8 percent, the group reported. Peter Casey, president of the realtors association, said these latest figures include many first-time home buyers who are taking advantage of the improved economy and historically low interest rates. "The economy is clearly picking up, and people are seeing that," he said. And even though prices are up, they are not showing the rapid appreciation of recent years, when many people were priced out of the market, he said.


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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 2:15pm
Too cold for me, thanks.

Rhonda


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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 2:54pm
I could probably afford a house like that...........if I had another family or two to buy it with!!!!!!

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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 3:18pm
That's the average price. The "average" home that you could get for that "average" price could look presentable, or it could look like it's haunted and no family would want to live there. I know that people in certain areas of CA and NY have seen property values go into the stratosphere over the last decade or so, but the price escalation here over the last 5 years alone has been scary. As an owner, I'm not complaining too much, but as a potential move-up buyer, I'm shaking in my sneakers.


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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 3:21pm
You could come to Va and buy a small chicken farm for that!!!

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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 5:52pm

LOL No Thanks! Sounds too much like where I grew up.

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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 6:55pm
Is that in addition to the Narrows Bridge or are they rebuilding it?

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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 7:34pm
That would be a relatively cheap house on Long Island (and not a very big one at that) and with property taxes anywhere from $4,000 to 10,000 or more depending on the community you're living in. So I'm sure you don't want to live on Long Island!

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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 8:37pm
Yes--the project I spent a few years on (public relations part) for Bechtel is finally going through.
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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 9:06pm
I have an older cousin who used to live on Syosset, LI, but I've never been there, so I don't know what it's like. Her husband

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Tue, 12-30-2003 - 11:42pm
It's really weird, but right after I wrote that post I went in the bedroom and Tim was watching "Midway," which told about my cousin's husband, George Gay (played by Kevin Dobson), in it!!! What timing! He

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