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Half Iron Man 2008-03-08 12:24:22 This is our son. The local newspaper "Home Town Weekly" did the article. We are so proud of him and what he has accomplished. God has been good and it wasn't easy when he battled this disease. He is doing this half Iron Man because of an 8 year old boy who has battled and it is not looking good. We are praying for a miracle for this little boy still. Chris is doing this for not just one boy but all the boys and girls who are battling this disease. You can read his words which are better than mine.Q and ANeedham Police Sgt. Chris Baker competing in the West Kennebunk Triathlon last August. PHOTO SUBMITTEDBRET SILVERBERG, Hometown Weekly Staff 06.MAR.08Sgt. Chris Baker-TriathleteNeedham Police Sergeant Chris Baker is in
Needham Market Report 2008-03-06 23:16:11 Needham is hot!Where our Town Needham stands. I would say ...Needham is hot. Well in the town of Needham property increased 17.9.% over the past 5 years. According to Boston Magazine there are 29 neighborhoods and towns that are holding their value. You would never know it if your only listened to the news. All bad news all the time. Except for yesterday I heard a quote on the News that the National Association of Realtors said that there seems to be recovery coming. "According to research done by Municipal Benchmarking, which studied Needham against Lexington and Wellesley, and 17 other communities, Needham ranks 4 in MCAS scores."1 There is so much bang for the buck. This is why the market keeps strong and yes there homes in a Read more:Market
Needham Market Report 2008-02-25 07:32:05 There certainly has been an uptick in the Needham market lately. The increase has been in Open House attendance and in properties going under agreement.In the past 7 days 9 properties went under agreement. Of the 9 properties that went under agreement 7 of those were Coldwell Banker Residentail Brokerage agents. One of those properties was on the market just 2 days. Another property that has been on for 817 days finally sold.Presently there are 78 active Single Family Homes on the Market
in Needham. The price range is from $439,000 to $3,500,000. Average days on market 134 and the average price is $1,116,542.In the last 7 days 3 new listings came on the market:$499,000$520,000 - which went under agreement in 2 days$609,000Prices are great. Interest rates
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Survey for Needham, Massachusetts January 14 to February 14th 2008Active Listings84 Single Family Homes ranging in price from $350,000 to $3,500,0001 - $399,900 810 days on market2 - $429,000 & $439,000 average days 712 - $479,000 & $499,000 average days 6910 - ranging from $500,000 to $599,999 average days 7215 - ranging from $600,000 to $699,999 average days 947 - ranging from $700,000 to $799,999 average days 725 - ranging from $800,000 to $899,999 average days 1265 - ranging from $900,000 t0 $999,999 average days 12223 - ranging from $1,000,000 to $1,499,999 average days 1208 - ranging from $1,500,000 to $1,999,999 average days 3242 - ranging from $2,000,000 to $2,499,999 average days 673 - ranging from $2,500,000 to $2,999,999
Patriots 2008-02-01 09:46:10 You can just imagine what is on our minds with the SuperBowl coming. This YouTube video preceeded our office meeting yesterday. May the best team win. God bless both teams. I haven't checked the list of Open Houses for Sunday but there probably won't be many due to the pre-game activities. As an aside, the market seems to have kicked in. Much more activity compared to last few months. We may be having an early spring market. Owners, for the most part, are being sensible with proper price positoning them in the current market so that they will not be on the market forever. Pat Baker, Licensed Real Estate Broker, Associate of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage of Needham, MA Buyer's Agent and Seller's Agent in the Needham, MA area along with Boston Suburbs Read more:Patriots
My laptop is ailing 2008-01-30 20:27:34 Just don't know when I will get my poor sick laptop back. Miss it so bad. I am in my office just checking emails and stuff.I will be back blogging when the laptop returns. It is in the good hands of the Geek Squad. I had a Trojan, then a worm and by the time I got it to the Geeks a bio-hazardsign was on the screen They assured me that they could fix it. Yes, I do update spy-ware & virus but I had interrupted both this weekend. Big mistake evidently. The big guns were out there.It is like deja vu. About 5 years ago my computer crashed just before I was going to send off my taxes to the CPA. Lost everything. It was nuts. I did get the taxes done though.Now it is about that time and everything is in my laptop but I do h
Funny Stories 2008-01-26 22:43:43 Yesterday I took a course and some of the attendees had some funny stories I thought I would share a couple of them while I still remember them.The first one goes like this: The agent went to give her market analysis to the owner. He said that the 2-Family was worth at least a million. Her price was half that. He insisted he would take nothing less. The background on this house was that he had a large snake in apartment, rats in the basement and in the rented apartment an ex-con.The second story was an animal story as well. These people has lots of pets. One of those pets was a talking bird, I think a cockatiel. The agent asked them to remove the taking bird for the Open House. Well, they did not and the bird did a lot of talking which Read more:Funny
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Morning Up-Time 2008-01-24 19:26:14 Since my mother passed away in August, the holidays, and surgery on my knee I have not been doing very much uptime or I give what I have away. I have been busy doing real estate but not necessarily doing a whole lot of up-time. I have asked those agents that have been on how it is been and the answer often times is "quiet." Today was quite interesting for a Thursday lately. The phones were ringing. I got a cell phone call from a client I hadn't wanted to look at properties in 6 months. He wants to start looking again. I got an up-call and that turned into an appointment. My partner on the desk got 2 up-calls and an appointment this afternoon.I was really encouraged to see that much activity between 9 and 1 on a Thursday morning. Read more:Morning
Needham Market Report 2008-01-21 20:52:17 From the period of January 1 to January 21 there were 18 new listings coming on the market. There were 2 expired listings one in the $1,000,000 to $1,499,999 after 44 days and another property in the $600,000 to $699,999 which was on the market for 21 days. The properties on the market are as follows:2 single family homes between $450,000 and $499,9991 single family home between $500,000 and $599,999 4 single family homes between $600,000 and $699,9991 single family home between $700,000 and $799,9999 single family homes between $1,000,000 and $1,499,9991 single family homes between $1,500,000 and $1,999,999 Price changes averaged was -4.69%. During that same period 8 sales happened as follows:1 single family home $367,5001 single family home $4 Read more:Market
Here Goes My MeMe - Be kind 2008-01-10 21:46:30 Hope I did this right but here goes.... I was tagged by Tana Hunt to do a meme on myself. I am not sure of how to do this but here goes. She thought her meme was boring but I am sure mine is. I was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts and lived in a beautiful section of East Boston so you can say I am a Bostonian. My parents were raised in Boston too. I was the first and then came my brother 3 years later and my sister Denise 5 more years later. All but my first 7 years I lived in the suburbs of Boston and the last 43 in Needham, MA. When I lived in the city of Boston I lived on the other side of Logan Airport. I could literally walk across the street to swim at Shay's Beach everyday in the summer months. It was great. I don&
Needham Market Report 2008-01-07 09:01:30 Well here it January 7, 2008. Generally a quiet time in real estate.I just checked the latest report and there were 3 properties that went under agreement over the weekend. As of yesterday there were 67 properties on the market ranging from $375,000 to $3,500,000. The heaviest concentration being 13 properties priced between $600,000 and $699,999. The other heavy concentration is the properties priced between $1,000,000 and $1,499,999 the total is 14. Median price is $889,000. Total single family homes on the market 65 as of this morning. The average days on market 145 days.I will be reporting further later today on other stats for Needham, MA Pat Baker, Realtor Associate of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage of Needham. Serving Needham, We Read more:Market
In My Lifetime 2008-01-01 20:13:27 It came to me via my husband that in my life time which as of December 10th of 60 years lots of things have changed and some didn't exist in any form, ha, ha, ha but that is OK I am celebrating because it is better than the alternative: Phones became portable - Do you remember the phone in a bag? Whenever I think of that I crack up. I think that was in the early 90’s. I was always first to have whatever. I went back further for this pic to the Motorola Cooper. Couldn't find a bag phone. thank God they were short-lived. I had an accident when I first got it. I heard it ring got distracted and anyway it all turned out ok. Just a minor accident. I am wiser now, of course. I was a mere 41 then. Oh my! Read more:Lifetime
Needham, Wellesley, Dover Market Report 2007-12-29 21:18:38 Although the year has not officially ended I believe that we can get a real picture of the single family home sales for these communities in the infamous year of 2007. Comparison follows the report for each town from the previous year and same time period. The figures are taken from Multiple Listing Service for this area which is H3MLS.All of these communities are in Norfolk County. All are a generally strong luxury market. All have terrific amenities in what are offered for town services and near to the city of Boston, MA. Explanation of the these headings: SP:LP ratio = Sales Price to List Price Read more:Market
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The Stock Dividends & Herbie McIntosh 2008-03-13 14:31:17 Now I came to Needham in 1965. There was a town resident named Herbie
McIntosh (originally spelled MacIntosh). Herbie was quite old when I first saw him walking up Great Plain Avenue from his home close to the Wellesley line. He would walk closer to the ground, it seemed every time I saw him. He would walk to the Post Office in the center of town and side on the large window sill in the old post office on Chestnut Street. As he sat opening mail, which was one dividend after another, as the story goes. It would be 5 feet high. This very old man would walk with him brief case. I really don't know how he could carry that and himself.Herbie had attended Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and he became a lawyer. I Read more:Stock
Needham Market Report 2008-03-12 21:48:02 Market Report for Needham 3/12/2008Market Share of 9 properties sold - 6 sides were Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage- Needham: 32.54% of the market share for Needham and Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage is #1 again in Needham for sales sides. 8.74% of the sales sides came from the Newton Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office.The total dollar volume sold for this time period is $16,022,000.0094 properties on the market as of today - ranging from $350,000 to $3,999,999The average price for properties on the market is $1,023,705Median price is $809,500 with average days on market 127 versus 135 last month. 20 homes went under agreement versus 22 last month. $887,840 is the average price this month.14 properties had price changes with the average being - Read more:Market
The Dash 2008-03-14 07:55:29 Yesterday my manager showed us this wonderful video. Some of you may have already seen it but for those who have not I am adding a link to this blog.It made me think of my dash and I could make some changes but I never claimed to be perfect.I just loved it and I can't keep anything good to myself for here is the link:?SRNETDASHMOVIE Pat Baker, Real Estate Agent - Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Needham, MA - Wellesley, Dover, Weston, Sherborn, Holliston, Natick, So. Natick, Westwood, Dedham, Newton, Norwood, Walpole, Millis, Medway
The Potter's Shop in Needham, MA 2008-03-13 19:04:49 On New Year's Eve our office had the pleasure of displaying some the of unique and creative pottery from the Potter
's Shop on Thorpe Street, Needham, MA. Take her invitation and come in and visit. They have some wonderful works there. Pat Baker, Real Estate Agent with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage of Needham, MA - Working with buyers and sellers in Needham, Wellesley, Weston, Natick, South Natick, Westwood, Dover, Sherborn, Newton,Hollistonpatbaker.wordpress.com
Needham Market Report 2008-03-24 21:59:36 Active Listings as of today 105Price range $374,000 to $3,500,0004 single family homes between $400,000 and $449,0005 " " " " $450,000 and $499,999 15 " " " " $500,000 and $599,99920 " " " & Read more:Market
Needham Market Report 2008-04-12 09:09:30 Market Report for Needham122 Single Family Homes on the marketAverage Price: $1,030,173Median Price: $789,4501 single family homes on the market between $300,000 and $349,9992 single family homes on the market between $350,000 and $399,9994 single family homes on the market between $400,000 and $449,9996 single family homes on the market between $450,000 and $499,99915 single family homes on the market between $500,000 and $599,99922 single family homes on the market between $600,000 and $699,99913 single family homes on the market between $700,000 and $799,9993 single family homes on the market between $800,000 and $899,9995 single family homes on the market between $900,000 and $999,99930 single family homes on the market &nbs Read more:Market
Needham Market Report. 2008-04-21 16:40:52 The Needham market continues to be very strong. In the last 7 days 10 properties went under agreement with 6 of those properties from my office - Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Needham, MA and 5 of those properties sold within a month. It is agreat time to be a first time buyer for sure.2 Days on Market
Single Family $659,0004 Days on Market " " $405,0004 days on Market " " $595,00011 Days on Market $519,00019 days on market " &nb
Needham Market Report 2008-05-07 15:35:28 In the last 16 days there were 23 homes that went under agreement with an average list price of $820,048.There are 121 homes on the market with an average list price of $1,000,593. During the same time period 10 homes were sold with an average sale price of $700,100 and average days on the market was 80.80.There are some great homes on the market in the $700's and certainly even greater just over $1,000,000. The market is humming along and homes that are priced right go rather quickly.There are 39 active listings from $1,000,000 to $1,999,999There are 32 active listings from $600,000 to $800,000There are 20 active listings between $450,000 and $599,999We are coming to the end of the school year and the Needham High School renovations are in progress and the new track work i Read more:Market
Favorite or Where to Live 2008-05-10 15:53:08 We have been renovating our home for quite some time. I don't even want to tell you how long. Sometimes I think we will just get it done and sell it but lately I have had a new thinking.
I love my home and where it is located. I love busy street, the four bedrooms, the family room off the kitchen. The new floors that will be going in and the new drapes I will be hanging up. The new furniture, lamps and kitchen I am going to purchase. This is going to be a showplace but in the meantime I am loving it just the way it is. I am glad that I have had this long experience with doing our home. I can appreciate it more and I can help my clients too if they have similar experiences.
In my estimation, there are 2 great streets in Needham that I would love to Read more:Favorite
Those were the days, or were they? 2008-05-17 14:18:48 It is a sunny day in Massachusetts and that is a welcome sight since it has rained or been cold and cloudy quite a bit lately. I am not complaining at all when I consider the horrible weather conditions in so many places.
I am working on office stuff at the moment between showings and started to think of how things have changed since the summer of 1979 when I came into real estate. We
MLS - What have others experienced 2008-05-19 18:06:57 Our MLSPIN computer network here in Massachusetts+ has been attacked over the weekend starting on Friday I believe. Just curious if other MLS networks have been attacked as well. It is amazing how dependant we can be on this technology and when it doesn't work it sure has an impact.
My blackberry was on delay too and I didn't get messages from clients for 4 hours after they sent m Read more:experienced
Recession Proof Needham 2008-05-22 16:14:01 That is the front page lead article in the Needham Hometown Weekly "Recession Proof
Needham." Now I have been saying that for a while. I know that it is true. While we are constantly bombarded with bad news all the time 24/7 this is great news. It is evident by the way the homes in Needham are going under agreement faster than you can get your clients in to see the pro
Needham is a Hot Market 2008-05-28 17:35:32 I listened to syndicated money guy today Dave Ramsey and he says that he believes that we are coming out of the housing slump in some areas of the country. I really feel that Needham, MA is one of those areas and the surrounding communities are as well. I have seen an uptick in Natick, Holliston, Millis. I have also noticed that some new listings are coming on in higher pric Read more:Market
Needham Event - Go 4th and Celebrate 2008-05-31 13:20:17 Needham 2008 Celebration - Go 4th and Celebrate
theme for the 4th of July in Needham This Year! Sponsored by The Exchange Club of Needham
The first day I ever came to Needham to visit before we moved was July 4, 1965. I was amazed to see what the 4th of July celebration in the town of Needham was like. This year there won't be fireworks but they will be back next year. We a
What is So special about this young man & His Half-IronMan? 2008-06-11 14:31:49 I hope it is ok but I just got say what a wonderful son I have. He did the Mooseman Half-Ironman on Sunday June 8.
We were so glad to be there on the beach before jumped in for the 1.4 mile swim. He did two Triathlons in Kennebunk, Maine last summer and the summer before. That swim distance was 1/3 mile. Then came the bike up the mountains 27 miles. He did not do the Read more:young
Needham Area Market Report 2008-06-13 22:30:28 For the past month there were 26 single family homes sold in Needham with the average price of $739,962 and the average days on market were 64. The highest price was $1,650,000 and the lowest price was $390,000.
The sales price to list price ratio was 96% and the sales price price to original price ratio was 93%. Still a very strong market. The concentration of sales were b Read more:Market
Needham Market 2008-06-17 21:48:42 The Needham, Massachusetts housing market continues to hum along. School is ending and it quiet around but behind the scenes there is much preparation going on for the Fourth of July celebration in town. The spring market started a little later this year.
There were 3 new listings that came on the market today priced as follows: 1 at $669,000 -2 at $1,399,900 New Read more:Market
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