Guides
The long answers, with the invoices left in
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Six guides on buying, selling and what the whole thing costs, written by three of our agents between showings. Each one prints the numbers it argues from, down to the line items on a closing statement we ran in April.
Showing 6 of 6, newest first. Every one of them opens without a form.
- 12 August 2026Costs
What closing actually costs in Massachusetts, line by line
Every line on a Boston closing statement at $985,000: stamp tax, title insurance, the attorney, the recording fees.
Tom BrennanFounding partner
- 4 August 2026Selling
Five upgrades that pay back at sale, and four that never do
Our agents priced the same nine improvements across forty listings last year, and two of them returned more than they cost.
Marisol VegaSenior agent
- 28 July 2026Buying
Reading a listing photo: what a wide lens is hiding
A 16mm lens adds about a third to a room. Here is how to spot one, and the four other things a set of photographs quietly leaves out.
Daniel OkaforAgent
- 19 July 2026Buying
Buying outside 128: what the commute really costs you
Forty minutes each way is two hundred hours a year. We put that against what the same house costs one town closer in.
- 9 July 2026Selling
Staging a three-bed on a $2,000 budget
What we rent, what we buy and what we leave alone, with the invoice from a Somerville listing that sold in nine days.
- 1 July 2026Costs
Condo, co-op or triple-decker: how the monthly fees compare
Three buildings on the same Cambridge block, three completely different monthly numbers, and what the fees never cover.
Every byline is an agent with a license
Nobody here is a content writer. The three who write closed 93 homes between them last year out of the nine agents on the roster, which is where the invoices in these guides come from.
- 2 on costs
Tom Brennan
Founding partner
MA #04410077
- 2 on selling
Marisol Vega
Senior agent
MA #04471192
- 2 on buying
Daniel Okafor
Agent
MA #04512038
Priya Raman
Agent, new developments
MA #04498305
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