Archive for October, 2010
REALTORS Earn Impressive Honors
We held the annual MAR Professional Awards & Recognition Dinner last week during the Conference & Tradeshow in Worcester. It's always a great event that gives members a chance to congratulate peers who have contributed so much to the industry and the association. It's my pleasure to share the winners with you. You can read more about [...]
Mass. REALTORS® Wendy and John Rocca win national volunteer award
Back in August I posted that Wendy and John Rocca, REALTORS® from Watertown, were finalists for REALTOR® Magazine’s Good Neighbor Awards. Today, I am happy to report they are one of five WINNERS for the work they do for their charity Operation American Soldier (OAS). This is from my original post - As the founders of Operation American [...]
What’s being said in the media: September 2010 Home Sales
Here are the articles that appeared in the media in response to the release of our September/Q3 2010 home sales. We’ll update this post as additional articles come in. Wednesday, October 27, 2010 The Patriot Ledger Home sales slowed down in September, but prices remained stable: Even with uncertainty about economy, prices in Mass. [...]
Mass. September home sales down for 3rd straight month
Today (Tuesday, Oct. 26) we issued our September and Q3 housing numbers and for the third straight month sales have gone down. Despite the sales decrease, home prices have continued to edge up, but the increases have seemed to slow down a bit. On a month-to-month basis sales were down, but that is typical from August to September. Read the [...]
Vote No on 2 to Protect Affordable Housing Law
With all the talk about the Massachusetts governor’s race this election season, you may have missed the fact that one of the three referendum questions on the ballot aims to repeal our state’s primary affordable housing law known as Chapter 40B. As an association, MAR is working hard to get the word out to Vote NO on Question 2 this [...]
