Are You Represented in your Berkshire Property sale or purchase?
Are you represented in your Berkshires property purchase?
What's all the fuss about Berkshire buyer and seller's agents, facilitators, designated agents, dual agents, limited agents? Confused? So are many real estate licensees. It's a bewildering set of options most people
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Berkshire homes for sale with descriptions of cathedral ceilings, vaulted ceilings and coffered ceilings can be confusing. Here are a few simple tips to distinguish the difference in ceilings.
The most common type of fancy ceiling in the Berkshires is the cathedral ceiling. Home buyers know a cathedral ceiling because the ceiling [...]
Williamstown Real Estate Agent owner and Designated Broker for Harsch Associates Real Estate. Paul A. Harsch III gives you some background history on his life in the Berkshires.
"I have been a real estate Broker in the Berkshires for 39 years. I founded Harsch Associates in 1979 and have served as the President of the agency since that time. Allow me to share [...]
1987 sales compared with 2012 sales in Berkshire County
The silver lining in the present Berkshire County real estate market is the trend we see in rising numbers of transactions leading sellers to believe optimistically that the bottom of the market has been reached. . Total closed sales in Williamstown through May this year were 19, up [...]
The Plight of Today's Seller of Real Estate
The typical seller in today's Berkshire real estate market reflects the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance....that the values and their life savings along with those former values, have tumbled beyond recovery in the foreseeable [...]
Winners and Losers in Real Estate
How Much Is That Person's Coffee Mug ( Seller's Property) Worth?
Why is it more difficult now to bring buyers and sellers together in real estate transactions than just a few years ago? Princeton economist Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winning author of Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow sheds light on this seemingly perplexing question. Take a simple coffee mug for [...]
Berkshire County Real Estate as well as Williamstown Real Estate is showing anecdotal evidence of a good start in [...]
Williamstown real estate agency Harsch Associates has brokered many business sales in Berkshire County MA. Businesses in Berkshire County range from international corporations like Sabic to the everyday mom and pop main street businesses like small retail businesses and [...]
For all real estate listings placed with Harsch Associates and all purchase agreements signed with buyers, Harsch Associates Real Estate will donate 1% of Harsch Associates' brokerage fees to the clients' choice of a local charitable organization. The charity must have a 501 [...]
Finding your "OM" in Berkshire County is a great recommendation by Krista Rossow of the National Geographic Society. She shares with us the article below. Find more great Spring Travel tips for visiting the Berkshires at this site [...]
When it comes to buying a home in the Berkshires does it make sense to seek help from a expert Realtor®? The simple answer is YES.
Purchasing Williamstown real estate using an expert real estate agent can save you anywhere from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands of dollars or more. What is the best way to save money on your [...]
In the go go '90's mortgage brokers were writing an ever increasing percentage of loans, taking business away from the traditional lenders, the banks and S & L's. Many of us well remember the so called S & L crisis from the 70's when there were unfortunate abuses taking place that sank some major S & L's, principally in the west and [...]
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