Photography Tips for Marketing Your Berkshire Home For Sale.    Selling Williamstown Real Estate and marketing your Berkshire Home to potential buyers can means the first look they have at your Berkshire home makes the most important first impression.  Most first looks are found online and the property is judged by the quality of the photography.   Harsch Real Estate wants to offer your home for sale in the very best way. We have compiled a short list of how you can guarantee that your Williamstown Home will get second and third looks on the many real estate websites out there.

Buying a home in The Berkshires of Massachusetts?  Or selling to  move to warmer climates???  No matter, Harsch is here to help you sell at the best price in the most efficient time to match your needs.  We also help new buyers to get the home they want at the right price that meets your budget.  We have some of the most experienced real estate agents in the industry and in the BERKSHIRES.  Give us a call to begin your next real estate transaction.  We can get the job done- right price, right time and right location.

Read more about data from United Van Lines describing where people are moving to and from by clicking the photo to right.  We provide a small screen shot of 2018 figures for Massachusetts.  Information courtesy of United Van Lines.

Realtor Paul A. Harsch III, the founder and president of Harsch Associates of Williamstown, has been appointed to the seven member Vermont Real Estate Commission by Vermont Governor Phillip B. Scott.

Log home in  Southern Vermont Berkshire Mountains. For Sale Now.  Close to Williamstown MA, North Adams MA, Bennington VT, and all the ski resorts and cultural events offered by the Berkshires.

There are currently 15 pending sales ranging in list price from $115,000 to $899,000 in Williamstown Massachusetts.  Located in Northern Berkshire County easily accessible to The Clark, Williams College and MCLA.

Seller’s Property Disclosure Forms  –   Make This A High Priority

There is a push pull going on right now over the use of seller property disclosure forms in Berkshire County and surrounding areas in Vermont and New York where we are licensed to conduct our real estate business. Some attorneys have been advising their seller clients not to [...]

A "for sale" sign on a Berkshire property does not always mean the owner wants to SELL the home.  Owner motivation has everything to do with whether or not a property is positioned in the market to sell actually SELL. The owner may want to receive a price for the home unrelated to the actual market value of the [...]

Why buy in Southern Vermont? Southern Vermont is rich in tradition, brimming with historical significance, the inspirational location for many great early American artists (a tradition which continues today) and foremost it is [...]

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 [...]

Top 10 Tips for Buyers

Williamstown MA real estate agency Harsch Associates offers our readers this  article from the Canada Free Press.   The article appeared on July 31, 2012 and offers the benefits of living in a college town.

Williamstown MA and North Adam s MA are home to several colleges.  Harsch Associates has been serving Berkshire County since 1979 and with over 3000 homes sold.  Visit our  [...]

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 [...]

Harsch Associates Real Estate is pleased to announce the Spring 2012 recipients of the real estate firm's Charitable Gifting Program.

Harsch Associates sets aside 1% of its gross pretax income from each sale and the buyer/seller chooses their favorite charity organizations to receive the money. Listing property or buying property through a [...]

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 [...]

The Article Below is Courtesy of  www.iBerkshires.com an online news source for Berkshire County MA residents

Berkshire County Housing Market On Upswing

By Stephen Dravis Special to iBerkshires 07:10PM / Saturday, April 07, 2012

Berkshire County Real Estate as well as Williamstown Real Estate is showing anecdotal evidence of a good start in [...]

Is there a rule of thumb in the Berkshire Real Estate  market for how much below the asking pricea potential buyer should initially offer for a listing? 10 percent below? 20 percent below?

This seems like an easy question, but unfortunately quick fix answers will  not work in the Williamstown MA real estate market.   The magic words to begin the process of negotiation are [...]

Patch all holes and cracks in walls and ceilings. Check with your local Home Depot or Hardware store for the items needed to make these easy do it yourself repairs.   Inspect every room for spider webs and lint clinging to ceilings.  A simple long handled duster will make short work and give a cheap face lift to an aging room.  Don't forget [...]

Neutrality Sells. As a general rule homeowners are shocked by buyers first impression of their home.  The seller associates " home" with a lifestyle they cherish which may include  family members (kids/parents/friends), pets, vocations/avocations and the many objects they have collected for each unique interest.  It can be slightly [...]

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Anyone in Williamstown or Berkshire County who expects to collect a fee for selling real estate in Massachusetts MUST be Licensed in Massachusetts.  A large percentage of real estate licensees are members of the National Association of Realtors (registered trademark), the trade organization of the profession.  Only members of [...]