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Lara
Oct 14, 2016
11 Church Street: A real estate history
This is the backstory of my new condo listing on the market this week… Back in 2011 I listed a cool old 3-family home at 11 Church...


Lara
Sep 22, 2016
Fall real estate market / news from the trenches
Hard to believe, but the summer is over, moving day / Allston Christmas has passed and the campuses are once again full. Before you know...

Lara
Jun 1, 2016
Spring market check in
Now that we’ve passed Memorial Day, we are likely past the mid-way point for the spring 2016 real estate market here in Cambridgeville....


Lara
May 30, 2016
Interest rate hikes may come sooner than you think
As in, this month. Yep. We’ve been hearing this for a while now (years!) but Inman News, the top-rated real estate news site on the Web,...


Lara
Apr 27, 2016
Old homes, historic homes in Cambridge, Somerville & Boston
One of the things I love most about real estate in the Cambridgeville / Boston area is the amazing architectural diversity and history...

Lara
Mar 31, 2016
Like navigating Google's street view? You'll love my new 3D home tours
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this amazing new way to view properties online. I could describe it for you, but better to let you see it yourself. So...


Lara
Mar 31, 2016
Welcome to the team, Sybil!
Am sooooo happy to introduce Sybil Geddes, my new team member. Sybil was already an agent with Gibson Sotheby’s when I joined in...


Lara
Mar 16, 2016
It's official: the 2016 spring market is here!
Over the past few weeks, my buyer clients and I have been EXTREMELY happy to see that each week, many new listings are coming on the...

Lara
Jan 26, 2016
2015 Real Estate Review for Cambridge & Boston
I generally do a lot of my own market analysis to get more granular, but this Gibson Sotheby’s piece provides a good overview —...


Lara
Jan 12, 2016
Ch ch ch changes… Q&A on my move to Gibson Sotheby's
(Ah Bowie, you will be missed…) I am a big believer in change — whether it’s changing where I live, what I do, how I think about things…...

Lara
Jan 5, 2016
Property tax rates DOWN in 2016 across the metro Boston area
Yes, it’s true — in every one of the thirteen cities/towns I researched, the residential property tax rates went down this year, and...

Lara
Dec 10, 2015
2016 real estate outlook
Last week I went to a great talk by Jonathan Smoke, Chief Economist at Realtor.com, on the current national and local economies, as well...


Lara
Aug 7, 2015
Spring 2015 market: Somerville 3-year home price comparison
Just did this for Cambridge, so here we go for Somerville… The following data reflects 3-year price changes (2013 – 2015) for a sampling...


Lara
Aug 6, 2015
Spring 2015 market: Cambridge 3-year home price comparison
A few years back I started a little post-spring market tradition of looking back at the season’s sales to get a sense of how they compare...


Lara
Mar 22, 2015
The real estate angle on all this winter's snow / Media coverage
In a strange confluence of events, I ended up getting a lot of interview requests by various media outlets in the past couple weeks, all...

Lara
Jan 21, 2015
Cambridge v. Somerville: Comparing Housing Costs with Property Taxes
Anyone shopping for a home in Cambridgeville knows that you generally get more bang for the buck when buying a home in Somerville than in...

Lara
Jan 13, 2015
2014 Recap: Spotlight on Multi-Families
Last one! This is a hard category for making comparisons because multi-families include everything from 2-unit houses to much larger...

Lara
Jan 12, 2015
2014 Recap: Spotlight on Single Families
Single-family homes are only a small segment of our overall housing market (14 and 12% for Cambridge and Somerville, respectively). In...

Lara
Jan 9, 2015
Cambridge & Somerville Condo Price Trends
Ah, the good old days… back in 2010 the average price of a Somerville condo was below $400k and even in Cambridge, your average condo...

Lara
Jan 8, 2015
2014 Recap: Spotlight on Condos
The majority of our home sales in Cambridgeville are condos (77% of all sales in Cambridge and 67% in Somerville), so let’s take a closer...
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