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Searching for a home in Boston can be a daunting task if you live abroad. Mondoboston.com exists to help introduce international buyers to Boston and the home buying process. Use our site to find out more about the logistics of house buying in the United States. Catch up on neighborhood news, surf [...]
What are Italian investment advisors telling their clients who are interested in investing in real estate?
According to Mario Breglia, president and founder of the Institute of Real Estate Research (or istituto di ricerca Scenari Immobiliari) if you’re looking to invest in real estate in Italy, you should check out new houses built on the periphery [...]
This is the time of year when thoughts turn to buying that little beach shack or mountain cottage. When you’re on vacation, it’s kind of hard to resist the thought “what would it be like if this were really mine?”
However, buying vacation property is not always as simple as one might think, and in today’s [...]
It’s the time of year when we start planning which books we’re taking with us to our summer house, the beach, or maybe just to the park across the street. And since we’re consumed with real estate here at Mondoboston.com, we thought we’d run down a quick list of real estate-related books which might make [...]
After tumbling steeply in the last year or so, it seems that the prices of Boston triple-deckers is on the rise again. According to an article in last week’s Boston Globe,the median price of a triple-decker in Dorchester rose 13.5 percent in the first five months of this year to $261,000, compared with the same [...]
It remains to be seen just how robust this house-buying season will be now that the homebuyer’s tax credit has expired. And yet, we’re sure, there will always at least a few of us in the market for a new home. Problem is, some of us seem to go crazy while we’re out looking. We [...]
Have you ever seen a house on the market and wondered how the sellers could ignore some simple fixes that would instantly boost their home’s sex appeal? We have. Sometimes you just have to wonder how a seller could possibly think all those knick-knacks on the mantle and the books stacked in the corner could [...]
Is the goal of owning a home all it’s cracked up to be?
Not according to Rutgers Economist Eugene White who argues in the Wall Street Journal that renting has one major advantage over owning: flexibility. When things get tough, when someone loses a job or gets a pay cut, a family with a year-long or [...]
Recently, we wrote about the national renovation trend which has seen an uptick in people embarking on renovation projects. It seems that as more people figure they’re not going to sell, they’re making their current homes livable. They’re taking on smaller renovation projects and paying in cash. Now Money Magazine adds another caution for those hoping [...]
Any real estate professional knows that the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day marks a general slow down in the housing market. But what some buyers don’t realize is it is precisely this lull which makes for excellent house shopping. Buyers may wield more power this time of year than any other, as sellers are more open to [...]
