Category: Home Seller
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Selling a Multi-Family Home With an Unpermitted Unit Boston
Selling a Boston triple-decker or two-family with an unpermitted unit? Here’s how disclosure, financing, and your buyer pool are affected before you list.
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Selling Your Boston Rental Property With Tenants in Place
Massachusetts law governs every showing, notice, and security deposit when you sell a tenant-occupied Boston home. Here’s what landlords must know.
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Seller Concession or Price Reduction: What Boston Home Sellers Need to Know in 2026
Buyers are requesting closing credits on nearly half of all deals. Should you cut your price or offer a concession? Here’s how Boston home sellers should decide.
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Negotiating Repairs After a Home Inspection in Boston: A Seller’s Guide
Massachusetts sellers are not required to fix anything found in a buyer’s home inspection. Here’s how to navigate the repair list, offer credits, and protect your deal in Boston.
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How to Choose the Best Offer When Selling Your Boston Home
The highest offer isn’t always the best. Here’s how Boston sellers compare price, financing, contingencies, deposit, and timing to pick the offer that actually closes.
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What to Fix Before Selling Your Boston Home (and What to Skip)
Before you spend on pre-sale repairs in Boston, know which projects add value and which waste money. Here’s what to fix, what to skip, and why it matters.
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Why Does Mortgage Financing Fall Through? A Boston Guide
Mortgage financing falls through when a buyer’s lender withdraws or denies final loan approval after a purchase agreement is already signed, usually because of a low appraisal, a change in the buyer’s financial picture, or a gap between pre-qualification and full underwriting. In Massachusetts, what happens next depends almost entirely on whether the buyer properly…
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Massachusetts Lead Paint Disclosure: A Boston Seller’s Guide
Massachusetts lead paint disclosure is a legal requirement under both state and federal law that obligates sellers of homes built before 1978 to give buyers a signed Property Transfer Lead Paint Notification form before the Purchase and Sale Agreement is executed. The form discloses what you know, or don’t know, about lead paint on the…
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Appraisal Came In Low? A Boston Home Seller’s Guide
When your Boston home appraises below the agreed price, you have four options. What you can do depends on the appraisal language in your Massachusetts P&S.
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Selling a House During Divorce in Massachusetts: What Boston Homeowners Need to Know
In Massachusetts, both spouses must agree to sell the house, or a court can order it. Here’s what divorcing Boston homeowners need to know about the process, proceeds, and tax timing.
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The Massachusetts Purchase and Sale Agreement: What Boston Home Sellers Need to Know
In Massachusetts, the P&S is legally binding the moment both attorneys sign it. Here’s what Boston home sellers commit to, what your attorney negotiates, and what happens if the buyer walks.
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Massachusetts Smoke and CO Detector Certificate: What Boston Home Sellers Need to Know
Before you can close on your Massachusetts home, you need a fire department smoke and CO certificate. Here’s what sellers in Boston need to do and when.