
Q1 2021 Suburban Residential Market Report




Advisors Living, a full-service residential brokerage and advisory firm, announced on Wednesday that it has engaged Merit McIntyre as the CEO of its growing brokerage business. McIntyre will work alongside Janice Dumont, CEO of New Development Sales & Marketing, as they collaborate and scale this premium business to serve residential brokerage and new home development sales and marketing throughout Massachusetts and beyond.


The vast majority of homes in Greater Boston are sold by real estate agents through a Multiple Listing Service called MLS PIN. The subscriber system ensures that most real estate agents know the property is on the market, and it’s where online brokerages and search engines such as Zillow and Redfin get their listing data (if the agents allow it).


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At the flip of a switch, COVID-19 created a paradigm shift in real estate investment. Pension fund darlings turned ice cold overnight. Risk profiles turned on their heads. The four, classic real estate investment strategies of Core, Core-Plus, Value-Add and Opportunistic are no longer definitive. COVID-19 also provided the collective built environment with a valuable stress test, revealing new risk variables.

A 14,000-square-foot estate, originally built in 1904 as a summer home for the Houghton family, is listed for sale for $10.95 million.

Silicon Valley is catching up to the real estate industry. Over the past decade, more than $30 billion has poured into PropTech...