           
Mike is ready to help you with your buying or
selling needs when you are ready to buy real estate in Metrowest Boston
Suburbs. The selection of available Homes in Acton, Ashland, Boxborough,
Concord, Framingham, Lincoln, Littleton, Marlborough, Maynard, Natick,
Northborough, Southborough, Stow, Sudbury, Waltham, Wayland, and Weston
is the highest it's been in 20 years. There is a wide selection of new
and resale properties.
The 5% LISTING FEE will help you see more cash from your home in Metro
West Boston. Our 5% listing fee, FULL SERVICE LISTING, is competitive in
the Metrowest real estate market. We will always offer a 2 1/2% co-op to
buyer's agents who show your home. This helps sell your home faster and
for a higher price with more cash to you.
Homes are hard to value today. I'll give you the
market information to help. The market in suburban Metro West Boston is
slow compared with the boom years of 2001-2005. Serious home sellers
need real facts to price their home properly for market conditions.
Contact Mike Hunter for a FREE Market Analysis. I can help.
As an experienced buyers agent, I'm ready to help
you find a home in any price range or style.
FORECLOSED SINGLE FAMILY HOMES in metro west Boston may offer a good
buying opportunity for home buyers. I'm trained and experienced selling
bank foreclosures, REO, homes that have gone to foreclosure to mortgage
companies, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FDIC and Credit Unions.
Contracts on a foreclosed home can be closed in 60 days. You must
be pre-approved for a mortgage loan and have no contingencies. In other
words, you must be ready to buy. Contact Mike at (978) 580-1069 and
he'll show you foreclosures in your price range.
Contact me to tour metrowest Boston suburban foreclosures in your price
range. There are opportunities in the foreclosure market. I'lll give you
the market information you need to make good buying and investment
decisions.
SHORT SALE services are offered by Mike Hunter, the House Hunter.
Metrowest Boston home owners in need of listing your property for "SHORT
SALE", contact me and I'll help you evaluate the alternatives for relief
from mortgage payments that you cannot make. A SHORT SALE is not routine
and I will advise you about the feasibility of listing and selling your
home as a SHORT SALE in suburban Metrowest Boston. For a Short Sale
conference, call Mike at (978) 580-1069.
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USING ZILLOW?
Why zillow can get your home value wrong.
While I personally believe that Zillow is an awesome product and enjoy the
creative thinking that has surrounded it, there are a few things that you need to
know when using their estimates of home value, or what they call "zestimates"
- They use public records instead of multiple listing service data.
Depending on the town or city your home is located in, the public records
are notoriously inaccurate, especially when it comes to finished area and
living area. Multiple listing service data is entered by realtors who are
responsible for the accuracy and while it can also be imperfect, the MLS
data is much more likely to be correct.
Because the algorithms in Zillow are heavily
reliant on living area and cost per square foot, these public record
inaccuracies can introduce a statistically significant degree of error into
their estimate of home value.
- They use a radial distance from the house location to select comparable
home sales in the vicinity. For example, they might select all houses within
a half-mile radius of the subject property that have been sold within the
last 6 months.
While this makes absolute sense, mathematically, it
doesn't make sense real-estatically (I just made up that word). The reason
is, that if a property is on the edge of two different zip codes of highly
differing socioeconomic strata, and thus, real estate values, the results
will again introduce a statistically
significant degree of error into their estimate of home value.
- They are very good at analyzing quantitative factors (facts) but don't
yet have the capacity to include qualitative (feelings) factors, what we
realtors call the full 360 degrees. There are a number of highly subjective
factors that help to determine a home's value, and these factors are
constantly changing with trends and popularity of ... colors, materials,
lifestyles and family makeup, just to name a few.
Just as you can check-out a car on great websites,
commercials, movies and in pictures, you don't really know how you'd like it
until you drive it. So imagine yourself test-driving dozens of cars and
someone else who's only looked at them on websites, who's opinion would be
more accurate?
So in summary, I believe that Zillow is a great website and I think it is
very good at coming up with a blazingly fast widely-sweeping generality of a
home's value. But in its present form, it will not replace the complete market
analysis of an experienced, full-time professional realtor.
For a complete
market analysis of your home click here.
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