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Home Values up over 20% in Southwick, MA 01077

Sunset over Southwick MA
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Good news in Southwick, MA 01077 for home sellers: the average home values in Southwick have increased 20.2% over the last 12 months.

The Median Estimated Home Value is currently showing at $254,000 which is higher than neighboring towns Agawam ($235,590) and Westfield ($216,000).

This real estate market report will give you more information on the status of homes sales and activity in Southwick, MA.

Southwick MA Real Estate Market Report January 2011

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If you are considering selling your Southwick, MA home I am here to offer expert real estate help!  Learn more about my extensive real estate experience by watching this video.

Buying in Southwick, MA is easier when you work with an area expert, too!  Use this map based search to help you find your next home!

Lesley Lambert / Park Square Realty413-575-3611

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Map Monday: Homes for Sale, Southwick, MA 01077

Location in Hampden County in Massachusetts
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Welcome to Map Mondays! Each week I will create and highlight a Google map featuring homes for sale from different towns or in different niches. Today’s map is Homes for sale in Southwick, MA 01077.

Are you a homebuyer looking for a home in Southwick, MA? This map shows homes for sale in Southwick, MA 01077.

Finding the right home is an important process and I love to help. I host a series of videos on real estate. To see the videos visit my YouTube Channel.

If the search shown above doesn’t fit your needs, I can help you to get the information you need. Please don’t hesitate to ask, I am here to help! You can call me at 413-575-3611 or use the interactive card below to reach me via social networks, email and more!

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Savoring 2010

This is the time of year when everyone talks resolutions, or even better, goals and start looking ahead to the next year.  Many people are glad to let the old year go and expect great new things from the fresh start.  Me, I want to savor the blessings that 2010 gave me.

The following video was shot “after hours” in my kitchen in my PJ’s (g-rated of course).  I wasn’t going to shoot the video, but my Twitter friends including Lisa Laoden and Chris Smith thought that it would be “keeping it real” and that people would like to experience the real me.  Well, ready or not, here it is:

I wanted to add some pictures to flesh out the events and people that I discussed in my video, I hope you enjoy them even partly as much as I enjoyed being part of them.  I am one heck of a lucky girl…blessed in almost every way.

Morriss and I - celebrating 1 yr anniversary & my 40th
Some of the honored guests at my 40th Birthday Party!
One of the hundreds of gorgeous views in Utah. This was an amazing trip!
My amazing, beautiful, gifted, sweet daughters.
Friends of mine that bought their first home this year. We had our share of challenges, but they are there and they love it! I am so glad to have been able to help.
Had a lovely weekend away with my mom and sister, this is my sister, Michelle who took my 6 yr old kayaking
Morriss and I and our kids
My friend Diane Guercio and I presented alongside Real Estate Industry giant and friend, Sherry Chris in Boston this fall.
Meeting my #twitterqueens sister Debbie Kirkland for the first time!
I am blessed to have these amazing women by my side for just about my whole life.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading.  I just feel the need to focus on the gifts that I have already been given before I go marauding into the next year.  I hope that you remember to do the same.  Happy 2010, what there is left of it!

Fence makes bad neighbor in Western MA

A wood fence
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OK, so it is possible that the following tale was an accident, but I seriously doubt it.

A client of mine is purchasing a home for her children and herself and found a good deal on a bank foreclosure in Western Massachusetts.  We have gone through all the hoops and are at the end run hoping to close before the end of the year when we get a call from her attorney telling us that there is a title issue.

It seems that when the survey was done by the bank, it was discovered that the next door neighbor’s driveway and fence is a bit more than three feet onto the property we are trying to purchase.

Well, these things happen, you say (as did I) until we recalled that the driveway and fence in question appear to be brand spanking new.

I am speculating here, but am fairly sure of myself in thinking that these people next door took advantage of the vacant property status to enhance their own property holdings.

My buyer still wants the home, so now we have embarked on an attempt to reach the neighbor to get the proper paperwork signed to protect my buyer from liability, etc.

But seriously, assuming that my guess is right: what gall!

Foreclosure is enough of a problem in your neighborhood without causing easement, title and legal disruptions.  Reducing the size of your neighbor’s yard will not increase your property values as their sale is the current comparable for value and if you lower their value you lower your own.  If you can’t do the right thing just because it IS, indeed, the right thing, then at least consider your own property values.

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