The reports from Massachusetts. “The section of the South Shore centered around Plymouth continues to experience a big drop-off in domiciliate sales and prices. Figures compiled by the Warren assort show that home sales throughout Plymouth County are drink 10 percent so far this year compared to the same period in 2006 while prices have fallen nearly 7 percent.”
“Kimberly Allard-Moccia former president of the Plymouth and South Shore Association of Realtors said the soft market while troubling to owners watching their home values go is actually a good thing for the overall merchandise.”
“‘The region experienced unprecedented growth,’ said Allard-Moccia in Braintree. ‘It wasn’t healthy from 2001 to 2005 when buyers were getting into homes that didn’t cater their needs.’”
“‘I tell sellers. ‘This is not rocket science. You have to be realistic in your determine,’ said Peter Ruffini president of the Plymouth and South Shore Association of Realtors. ‘If you’re not you are setting yourself up for failure.’”
“Already said Georgia Taft Pye of the Duxbury tighten Buyer Brokers of the South Shore. ’sellers are getting more realistic.’ And that she added has really benefited buyers who ‘really can pick and choose.’”
“Developers are going forward with several study projects now on the drawing boards. In neighboring Kingston town planner Thomas Bott said he has not seen a big slowdown in development. ‘I keep hearing people tell me it’s awful out there. On the other hand. I just received an application for an 80-unit subdivision,’ he said.”
“Of all of the players in the South Shore and Plymouth real estate market first-time buyers have the biggest advantage brokers in the region say. ‘With no house to sell they are in the catbird lay,’ said Pye. ‘Everyone else has to sell their accommodate first and you are just waiting for the domino piece to set everything in motion.’”
“The crisis (is) sweeping the north side of Lawrence a crisis that is…shaking a local economy only beginning to acquire from the real estate crash of the 1990s when so many abandoned buildings burned that Lawrence became known as New England’s ‘arson capital.’”
“‘I thought nothing could be as bad as the ’90s,’ said Mary Marra executive director of a nonprofit.
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