Most people picture house hunting in June, with the windows open, the lawn freshly cut and lilacs by the front steps. It’s lovely. It’s also the season when a house is easiest to fall for and hardest to really judge. November is different. The leaves are down, the furnace is running and the sun sets…
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The house has four bedrooms and two of you. The upstairs bathroom hasn’t been used since 2019. You’re paying to heat rooms nobody walks into, shoveling a driveway that was sized for four cars, and there’s a lawn out back that made perfect sense when there were soccer games every Saturday. And yet. Downsizing is…
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Every October I have the same conversation with a handful of sellers. They’ve been thinking about moving all year, they finally feel ready, and then somebody at a cookout tells them nobody buys houses during the holidays. So they decide to sit tight until April. I understand the instinct. The days get short, the leaves…
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Here’s something we tell just about every buyer who’s new to the Massachusetts and New Hampshire seacoast: you can renovate a kitchen, but you can’t renovate a neighborhood. The house is what catches your eye online. The neighborhood is what you actually live in every single day. Getting that part right matters more than almost…
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We hear it all the time. “We’re thinking about selling, but we’ll probably just wait until spring.” And look, we get it. Spring has a reputation. The flowers come back, the yard looks great, everybody’s told you it’s the season to sell. But here’s the honest truth after many years of doing this on the…
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Every spring, the same story gets told: spring is the season to buy or sell, everybody’s out there, that’s when it all happens. And sure, spring gets very busy. But if you’ve been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the “right” time, don’t count out the fall. Around here on the New England seacoast, the…
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