Dave did an amazing job helping us navigate both buying a new house in the Boston area (no easy…read morefeat with how competitive it is!) and selling our small condo. We really appreciated his in-depth knowledge about the area and about houses - whenever we toured a home, he did a great job pointing out pros and cons about each place (for example, he talked us out of a place that needed more work done than we realized!). He was always very responsive via text and email and happy to answer any of our questions, no matter how small. With his help we managed to successfully stand out among ~20 bids for a home and buy within 2 months of searching! We weren't even the highest bid on the house, but he helped us figure out how to stand out despite it all. He is such a kind and honest person and we cannot recommend him enough.

David helped us sell our parent's condo in Back Bay. This is the 3rd property he has sold for our…read morefamily and we have been pleased with the process and results each time. 2 of the properties needed some renovations and upgrades. He managed the contractors and preparations for us so we were able to turn them around to sell quickly. He also got us above asking price for each place. I highly recommend David for the sale of your house!

I closed on my first condo yesterday, and Marie Farrar was my real estate agent. She is a very good…read morenegotiator and help me get the price at under asking. The appraisal went very well as a result. She has a great network of lawyers and loan officers who got the home closed on in less then 30days. She was prompt, answering all emails and phone texts right away. When you are buying a home, you want to deal with someone who you feel comfortable being around because you will spend a lot of time with them. Marie is very easy to work and get along with. She is very likeable and works well with other professionals in the community. She has tons of experience all over Boston and the surrounding areas. I bought my condo in Watertown, MA, where she has tons of knowledge. Her knowledge helped me put in the right offer and get it accepted, without paying too much. I feel like I got a good deal working with her, and I am very glad I chose her. My first home purchase was a piece of cake, and Marie was a big part of that success process.

My fiancé and I have been house / condo shopping for a few months and it's been such an enjoyable…read moreprocess thanks to our amazing realtor Kip LeBaron. My fiancé and I are all over the place looking for condos, townhouses, single family and multi family houses. We no idea what we wanted or where we wanted when we first started out in our home search but thankfully Kip was so kind and helped guide us along the way. Thankfully we were assigned the most amazing realtor who is so understanding, supportive and helpful. Kip helped my fiancé and I understand what we want. He has shown us so many houses and is always so accommodating on meeting us nights and weekends to see houses and condos all over the place. I really appreciate that Kip never pressures us into anything and instead only educates us. Kip always emails us useful comps and market info and trends that help guide our decision making. If you are looking for a realtor or just any guidance / advice I definitely recommend reaching out to Kip. He represents us in buying our house but he is also a great sellers agent as well. I recommend reaching out to him if you are thinking of buying or selling your home Kip@lamacchiarealty.com

Agent working for them was untrustworthy did not have permission to list house and filled out forms…read morewithout owners knowledge.

Greg helped us buy a home in Belmont, MA, and we really liked the experience. He was the second…read morerealtor we worked with. The first one came from one of the big brand-name companies. We left the big outfit because all that person could think of was getting a sales commision. Greg was great throughout. He never pushed us to buy. In fact, he wanted to take us through a series of educational visits so we could get a sense of what East Coast homes are like (old and new, colonial,...). Great idea when dealing with a California family like us. Some of the things you would like about Greg: - Won't push you to buy - Won't try to make you use his contacts for repair et cetera - Willing to say, "don't buy this" and otherwise have an opinion - Great eye for "lipstick on a pig" home repair - Very willing to go to open houses with you - Great with kids, which is key when you are logging your offspring around to the 20th house visit that week - Genuinly friendly. Lent us some tools after he got paid Working w a smaller realtor has no drawbacks. All realtors have exactly the same information so you should go with the person that will have your interests at heart. We felt that Greg did exactly that.

The reason I chose Greg as the realtor to sell my home was because he didn't give me the hard sell…read moreand I felt that I could trust him. I appreciated his laid back manner. Unfortunately, my husband and I found him to be too laid back for the process and in the end quite unprofessional and rude. Here are a few things that happened during the sale of our house that we were disappointed in: 1. At first he refused and then one month in reluctantly agreed to have a broker's open house (common practice in the small town we were selling in). This has the unintended effect of alienating many local brokers. 2. At our second Open House he misplaced/forgot the listing sheets. There were no listing sheets at the Open House. 3. He never once called us after an Open House to report how it went. Instead we had to call him. He always seemed annoyed that we were calling. 4. Two times he told us an offer was coming in then we didn't hear from him for 3+ days. We were on the edge of our seats for days. When we finally called to ask about the offers he again seemed annoyed and didn't have any more information other than: They aren't putting in an offer. We wanted feedback but he didn't have any. 5. Once we had an offer he gave us the wrong information in regards to Title V, causing us to lose $500. 6. Both ourselves and the seller were ready to close 10 days early. We asked him 3+ times to contact the seller and to confirm an early closing. He forgot to. We were paying $200/day in interest on our mortgage. This cost us $1200. I was ready to let all of this go until a few days before the closing when he forwarded an email to us from the seller telling us that they their mortgage may not come through. When I called him with follow up questions, he was extremely rude. He answered the phone with the words "What do you want?" and then when I asked if the seller had passed their mortgage commitment deadline (which would have told me if they were really trying to back out) his answer was "You have the p and s, look it up yourself." I then called his business partner (great guy) and asked for help figuring out what was going on with the sellers and their mortgage he told me that Greg was fighting with his father that day and that was why he was so rude to me. I expected an apology or at least a follow up at some point in the next few days. It never came. Greg didn't even show up for the closing.

Paul charged us a broker fee for an apartment, which is blatantly illegal. Is this a real estate…read morefirm you want to go with if they have no disregard for the law?

The entire team at Brad Hutchinson are all fantastic. They've been a pillar of Melrose for decades…read more They are responsive, knowledgeable, enthusiastic, passionate, experienced, vetted, and friendly. I highly recommend them for all your needs around buying and selling of real estate. Call them today! You won't regret it for a moment.

Worst mortgage experience EVER!! Buyer beware…read more.. They will give any Tom, Dick and Harry a mortgage license... Jon, Anthony and Greg's lack of mortgage rules/laws is astonishing. This branch is the definition of tell you what you want to hear to get your business! After receiving written pre-approval, approval, mortgage commitment, and a emailed copy of the final CD... We were told 48 hrs prior to closing that we couldn't close and had to completely restructure our mortgage from a jumbo to a conventional loan (making us go from 20% out of pocket to 40%). There reason was because they interpreted a law/rule for a self employed vs W2 employee one way and redwood trust (jumbo loan backer) said that is not how the rule is interpreted and denied the loan. How this came up at the 11th hour blows my mind, this was discussed on day one prior to even filling out an application because it was a concern but we were assured this wasn't going to be an issue. I'm sure they will spin this but I have all this in writing as well as backup. So in order to not be homeless with a wife, and two kids under 3 we did what we had to do to not lose the house. When speaking with Jon branch manger who by the way never reached out to me, I had to go online and find his phone number and call Myself, I was told: this is the first I'm hearing about this now and will do some research while at the same time he told me they have 100 mortgages going at once so he doesn't know everyone of the top of his head...That to me says: your just a number and we don't care. Considering this is a HUGE F*** up on they side. During a pandemic and finical uncertain time to have to generate this amount of money is extremely unsettling. If I were you I would pull my mortgage application and go in a different direction, just a matter of time before they do this again and completely ruin someone's life. Legal action is being taken.

I had a great experience with this Morgage company. Jonathan Swartz kept in contact with me through…read morethe hole process. He was a teacher and made us understand the process for our first home. When I couldn't contact him on the phone I would receive a text a few minutes later saying, He would call back ASAP or something to that extent. Which he did so. He helped us make a difficult process flow smoothly with a amazing house in Lynnfield. I highly recommend this company and obviously Jonathan too. Thank you for everything!

I purchased a house in Boxborough, MA with assistance from realtor Linda Dube. At every step of…read morethe way, Linda kept me completely informed of the process, provided real answers to my questions, and was entirely accessible. This was all the more remarkable given that I was in California for the better part of the transaction, where I struggled with a realtor - a self-styled "Mr. Big Bucks" who didn't provide a tenth of what Linda did. Unlike my California realtor, Linda actually listened to me, gently nudged me when my expectations weren't entirely realistic, and worked hard to make sure that I'd be OK with the outcome of the transactions. Consequently, I am delighted with my new home. Both the attorney she recommended and the inspector were personable and diligent. I'd recommend Linda Dube to anyone looking for property in the area northwest of Boston.

This is a review of Mari Morgan, Residential Leasing Agent with Charles Associates Real Estate…read more(Cambridge) and on www.mycambridgeapartments.com. I have worked with Mari twice: first when seeking to rent an apartment that she listed; second, when my lease was ending, as she searched (on behalf of my landlord) for the apartment's future occupants. I cannot emphasize strongly enough how rude, unprofessional, and frankly negligent Mari has been. In the first instance, I needed an apartment in advance of a move to the Cambridge area and was not able to view the unit before signing a lease. Mari grossly misrepresented the apartment in question, assuring me that decades-old photographs were current photos and convincing me that the apartment was in much better quality than it actually was. In my second dealing with her, Mari scheduled viewings and entered my apartment with no notice while I was living there. I came home one afternoon to find that the apartment was not as I had left it (lights turned on, etc.), so I called to ask if she had been in the apartment while I was gone. I was right; she had entered and shown an apartment that day with no notice to its occupants. Yet rather than apologize for this explicit violation of her supposed showing policy, she spent the first several minutes of our phone call berating me for calling her "so late" in the evening. (It was 7 pm and within her stated window of availability, which is 8 am to 8 pm. This is not to mention, of course, that it was rather urgently important for me to know who had recently entered my home without my knowledge.) I have no reason to believe that Mari is a fundamentally dishonest person. But she is rude, unreliable, unprofessional, and negligent to the point of dishonestly. I would not recommend her services under any circumstances.

This is a review for Mari Morgan, Residential Leasing Agent…read moreCharles Associates Real Estate, Cambridge also affiliated with http://www.mycambridgeapartments.com/ 1 star because I made an appointment with her for a viewing: she never showed up, never returned my calls at the appointed time. Still haven't heard back, no apology, or anything. Your experience might be different, but this lack of common courtesy doesn't bode well. Consider yourself warned.