Boston REIA, Author at Boston Real Estate Investors Association

The Home Design Trends Shaping 2025 with Sarah Fishburne

As we look ahead to 2025, home design is taking on a fresh perspective, blending timeless classics with personal touches, nostalgia, and the quiet elegance of understated luxury. The year’s biggest trends prioritize beauty, functionality, and sustainability. “The design shift is toward a more comfortable and tailored space featuring luxurious pieces with nostalgic accents. Expect […]

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Landlord Insurance Offers Better Protection for Investors Than Homeowners Insurance

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Understanding the Differences Between Homeowners Insurance and Landlord Insurance Homeowners insurance and landlord insurance are two distinctly different products, each designed for specific property uses. As a real estate investor, understanding these differences and insuring your properties under the appropriate policy is crucial to protecting your assets and avoiding costly claim denials. Let’s look at

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Exploring the Fascination with Abandoned Properties

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There’s something strangely captivating about abandoned properties. The eerie stillness, the remnants of grand ambitions, and the stories they tell all contribute to a fascination that draws many, including myself, into this peculiar rabbit hole. It all started when I stumbled across a YouTube video by Bright Sun Films about Peter Grant’s mansion in Ontario,

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AM Best, DemoTech, and Unrated

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The Importance of Insurance Carrier Ratings When looking for insurance, it’s easy to focus on coverage details, exclusions, and premiums. And while those are all important aspects of your policy, there’s another factor that is just as crucial: the financial strength of your insurance carrier. Why does this matter? Because no matter how comprehensive your

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Ep. 46 First Time Landlord… One month later (Update)

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Rent Perfect VP Heather Johnson sits down to discuss on-boarding her first tenant and the ups and downs from the first month of being a new landlord, with host David Pickron.

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S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller reports a 3.9% annual increase in home prices for September.

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The latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index reported a 3.9% annual increase for September, 2024. Their 10-City Composite increased 5.2% and their 20-City Composite increased 4.6%, year-over-year. “Home price growth stalled in the third quarter, after a steady start to 2024…The slight downtick could be attributed to technical factors as the

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Construction spending in the U.S. sees a slight increase

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U.S. Construction Spending Report The U.S. government is reporting that total construction spending in October, 2024 was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $2,174 billion, which is 0.4% higher than September’s revised number. However, October’s revised estimate is 5% higher than one year ago. Residential construction came in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate

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Florida Real Estate is in Trouble… Could it spread?

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The Florida real estate market is in trouble. Sales are down. Inventory is up and prices are going down. Could what is going on in Florida spread here to Massachusetts? Should we and everyone else be worried? In this video we are going to break down the ranking and put a little color on what

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10 Best Boston Towns For 1st Time Homebuyers

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Are you a first time homebuyer and wondering what the best towns around Boston are? Then this Top 10 list of the Best Boston Towns for 1st time homebuyers should be a big help. So how did we create the Best Boston Towns for 1st Time Homebuyers list? We used data. There were no feelings

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Retiring in Massachusetts? You’re Probably Doing it Wrong…

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Retiring in Massachusetts may not be a great idea according to this ranking… To say it another way, if you are planning on retiring in Massachusetts, then you probably are doing it wrong! In this video we are going to break down the ranking and put a little color on what the so called experts

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