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Home Buying Greater Boston Economic Expectations For Housing 2027 By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Two economists at Economic Expectations 2026 agreed on the big picture. Affordability starts to loosen, slowly. Rates will keep moving, Massachusetts is still short on housing, and every town behaves differently. Our advice: buyers should budget for a range of rates, not one […]
Home Buying Haunted Real Estate: Ghost Stories, Strange Showings and Massachusetts’ Most Haunted By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Quick answer: Haunted real estate comes up more often than people expect. Buyers leave showings over a bad feeling. A New York court once treated a house as legally haunted. A New Jersey couple never moved into the house they bought. Massachusetts even […]
Home Buying Thinking About Buying a Pre 1900 Home? Here’s What to Expect By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Pre 1900 homes reward buyers who plan for upkeep. After more than a century, most are structurally sound, but our team routinely sees knob and tube wiring, sloped floors, field stone foundations, rot and old insect damage in them. The right inspection, the […]
Home Buying Condominium Renovation ROI By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty In a large condo association, a full renovation rarely pays for itself. Our team measured 111 Waltham sales at Northgate Gardens and Wellington Crossing since 2021. Renovated Northgate units now bring about $36,000 more than original units. A midrange kitchen and bath runs […]
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Apartments Rent Control in Massachusetts: What the 2026 Ballot Fight Really Tells Us By Mike DelRose Jr.  |  DelRose McShane Team  |  Coldwell Banker Realty  |  July 6, 2026 Quick Answer Rent control is not coming to Massachusetts in 2026. The statewide ballot question was removed by the Supreme Judicial Court in June over a religious-exemption flaw, not on its merits. The deeper question our clients keep asking […]
Apartments Massachusetts Rent Control On The 2026 Ballot Introduction We live in unprecedented times. 2025 was the longest 10 years of my life for so many reasons, and major shifts in the real estate landscape here in Greater Boston were certainly a part of that. Later this year Massachusetts voters will cast ballots to decide whether rent control will be implemented for the […]
Apartments Fairness, Transparency, and a Long Overdue Rental Reform In Massachusetts: The Potential Elimination of Tenant Broker Fees July 2nd, 2025- By Mike DelRose Jr.-The Massachusetts Legislature just took a big step toward balancing the scales in our housing market. Included in the Fiscal Year 2026 budget is a provision that would ensure rental broker fees are only paid by the party who actually hires the broker. It’s a simple idea that mirrors […]
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Home Buying Greater Boston Economic Expectations For Housing 2027 By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Two economists at Economic Expectations 2026 agreed on the big picture. Affordability starts to loosen, slowly. Rates will keep moving, Massachusetts is still short on housing, and every town behaves differently. Our advice: buyers should budget for a range of rates, not one […]
Home Buying Haunted Real Estate: Ghost Stories, Strange Showings and Massachusetts’ Most Haunted By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Quick answer: Haunted real estate comes up more often than people expect. Buyers leave showings over a bad feeling. A New York court once treated a house as legally haunted. A New Jersey couple never moved into the house they bought. Massachusetts even […]
Home Buying Thinking About Buying a Pre 1900 Home? Here’s What to Expect By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Pre 1900 homes reward buyers who plan for upkeep. After more than a century, most are structurally sound, but our team routinely sees knob and tube wiring, sloped floors, field stone foundations, rot and old insect damage in them. The right inspection, the […]
Home Buying Condominium Renovation ROI By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty In a large condo association, a full renovation rarely pays for itself. Our team measured 111 Waltham sales at Northgate Gardens and Wellington Crossing since 2021. Renovated Northgate units now bring about $36,000 more than original units. A midrange kitchen and bath runs […]
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Home Buying Knob & Tube Wiring In Massachusetts Homes Quick Answer You can learn to recognize knob and tube wiring in about ten minutes. Look for white ceramic knobs on basement joists, dark cloth covered wires running alone through open air, and small round holes bored through the framing with ceramic sleeves inside them. Inside the living space the tells are different. Two prong […]
Home Buying The Termite Signs Every Massachusetts Homeowner Should Check Before Listing The Termite Signs Every Massachusetts Homeowner Should Check Before Listing By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Quick AnswerBefore you list your home in Belmont, Watertown, or anywhere in Greater Boston, walk your basement and your foundation line. Look for mud tubes running up the concrete, soft or hollow wood […]
Home Maintenance How to Keep Your Cool: Home Cooling Tips That Beat the Heat (and the Electric Bill) Friday, June 27th, 2025. By Bobby McShane-Summer’s here, the sun’s blazing, and your living room feels like a rotisserie. But before you crank that A/C to “Arctic Tundra” and kiss your utility budget goodbye, take a deep breath (preferably of cool air) and read on. Here are practical, sometimes surprisingly clever ways to keep your […]
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Home Buying Greater Boston Economic Expectations For Housing 2027 By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Two economists at Economic Expectations 2026 agreed on the big picture. Affordability starts to loosen, slowly. Rates will keep moving, Massachusetts is still short on housing, and every town behaves differently. Our advice: buyers should budget for a range of rates, not one […]
Home Buying Haunted Real Estate: Ghost Stories, Strange Showings and Massachusetts’ Most Haunted By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Quick answer: Haunted real estate comes up more often than people expect. Buyers leave showings over a bad feeling. A New York court once treated a house as legally haunted. A New Jersey couple never moved into the house they bought. Massachusetts even […]
Home Buying Thinking About Buying a Pre 1900 Home? Here’s What to Expect By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Pre 1900 homes reward buyers who plan for upkeep. After more than a century, most are structurally sound, but our team routinely sees knob and tube wiring, sloped floors, field stone foundations, rot and old insect damage in them. The right inspection, the […]
Home Buying Condominium Renovation ROI By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty In a large condo association, a full renovation rarely pays for itself. Our team measured 111 Waltham sales at Northgate Gardens and Wellington Crossing since 2021. Renovated Northgate units now bring about $36,000 more than original units. A midrange kitchen and bath runs […]
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Home Buying 2026 Massachusetts Ballot Question #7: Minimum Lot Size By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Question 7 would set a statewide floor for single-family lots. Does a lot have 5,000 square feet, 50 feet of frontage, and public sewer and water? Then a city or town would have to allow a single-family home on it. Towns would still […]
Apartments Rent Control in Massachusetts: What the 2026 Ballot Fight Really Tells Us By Mike DelRose Jr.  |  DelRose McShane Team  |  Coldwell Banker Realty  |  July 6, 2026 Quick Answer Rent control is not coming to Massachusetts in 2026. The statewide ballot question was removed by the Supreme Judicial Court in June over a religious-exemption flaw, not on its merits. The deeper question our clients keep asking […]
Apartments Massachusetts Rent Control On The 2026 Ballot Introduction We live in unprecedented times. 2025 was the longest 10 years of my life for so many reasons, and major shifts in the real estate landscape here in Greater Boston were certainly a part of that. Later this year Massachusetts voters will cast ballots to decide whether rent control will be implemented for the […]
Apartments Fairness, Transparency, and a Long Overdue Rental Reform In Massachusetts: The Potential Elimination of Tenant Broker Fees July 2nd, 2025- By Mike DelRose Jr.-The Massachusetts Legislature just took a big step toward balancing the scales in our housing market. Included in the Fiscal Year 2026 budget is a provision that would ensure rental broker fees are only paid by the party who actually hires the broker. It’s a simple idea that mirrors […]
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Home Buying From A PDF Handout To An Education Platform     DelRose McShane Team Coldwell Banker Realty  ·  Belmont, MA Perspective & Insight The Savvy Series  ·  A Look Back From a PDF Handout to an Education Platform M Mike DelRose Jr. REALTOR®  ·  Director of Marketing May 28, 2026  ·  Belmont, MA The software it was built on no longer exists. The brokerage […]
Team News Meet Our Newest Team Member: Dimitri Konstantopoulos Meet Our Newest Team Member For roughly three decades and two generations, Dimitri Konstantopoulos has been one of our best clients. Originally, his Father worked with my Grandfather, Concenzio “Connie” DelRose, before working with Mike DelRose Sr. after he retired. With over a dozen transactions involving investment property over the years, Dimitri built a portfolio […]
Team News The Day I Almost Quit By Mike DelRose Jr. Belmont, MA .Thursday, November 20, 2025 It still sits with me, more than ten years later. I’ve finally found the clarity and courage to share an experience that nearly drove me out of real estate for good. This post isn’t a masterclass or a marketing piece. It’s a catharsis. But if […]
Home Buying Greater Boston Real Estate: Fall Market 2025 By Mike DelRose Jr. Friday, October 31st, 2025. 10:34 AM Belmont, MA Happy Halloween!  What a strange time to be in real estate, or life for that matter, but I digress. Market shifts are expected, cyclical, an often have reflected long-term trends. This market now is ambiguous at best. When I first started in the […]
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Home Buying Haunted Real Estate: Ghost Stories, Strange Showings and Massachusetts’ Most Haunted By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Quick answer: Haunted real estate comes up more often than people expect. Buyers leave showings over a bad feeling. A New York court once treated a house as legally haunted. A New Jersey couple never moved into the house they bought. Massachusetts even […]
Home Buying Thinking About Buying a Pre 1900 Home? Here’s What to Expect By Mike DelRose Jr. | DelRose McShane Team | Coldwell Banker Realty Pre 1900 homes reward buyers who plan for upkeep. After more than a century, most are structurally sound, but our team routinely sees knob and tube wiring, sloped floors, field stone foundations, rot and old insect damage in them. The right inspection, the […]
Home Buying New Condominium Guidelines Impacting Lending In Greater Boston Quick answer: On August 3, 2026 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac end the Limited and Streamlined Review. Condo buildings with more than ten units now need a Full Review. The lender checks the association’s money, insurance and repairs. Buildings with ten units or fewer may skip project review entirely. On Monday the fast track for […]
Home Buying The Questions Smart Buyers Ask Before Choosing an Agent Buyer’s Guide · Greater Boston By Mike DelRose Jr. and Bobby McShane  |  DelRose McShane Team  |  Coldwell Banker Realty  |  July 2026 The Short Version Buying in Greater Boston is one of the largest decisions you’ll make, and the agent in your corner shapes the outcome. Before you commit, ask how the agent is […]

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