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Map Mondays: Four bedroom (or more) homes for sale in Westfield, MA

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 for the Buyer who needs a lot of bedrooms in Westfield, MA.

Are you a homebuyer looking for a home in Westfield, MA with four or more bedrooms? This map shows the homes for sale that have at least four bedrooms in all price ranges in Westfield, MA, 01085.

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!

Distressed Home Situation? Don’t Wait Another Minute, Help is Here!

There are many homeowners in Western Massachusetts who for a variety of reasons have fallen behind on their mortgage and are in a distressed home sale situation. Whether it is divorce or job loss or just a need to move, there are lots of people who need to sell their home, but fear that they can’t sell their home for enough to pay off the balance due to the lender.

Oftentimes these folks allow their fear to prevent them from asking for help or making proactive steps to work with their lender on a solution. Here are some tips that can help if you or someone you know is in a distressed home sale situation.

—Don’t ignore the lender’s efforts to contact you. Yes it is difficult to speak with them, open the mail and handle this terrible time, but sticking your head in the sand will not change what is happening. Staying in touch with the lender can help to gain some time that you can use to resolve the issues one way or another.

—-Call in the professionals. A good real estate agent with short sale, foreclosure and distressed sale experience is a priceless asset to you right now. They know what steps need to be taken and will act as your counselor and advocate.

—Speak with an attorney. There are attorneys in the area who specialize in helping with short sales, loan modifications and foreclosure delay. Reach out and ask questions.

—Don’t wait. If you are a candidate for a short sale it can take some time and the lender will not allow the time for you to try to accomplish the sale if it is too close to the foreclosure/auction date is.

This is a scary and stressful thing, there is no way around that fact, but you can move past this time.

Walking away from your mortgage has serious credit impact that is difficult to recover from not to mention the stigma and personal disappointment that foreclosure entails. Loan modifications and short sales can help you to move on and experience a much smaller credit impact.

Reprinted from my Masslive.com blog. See more from that blog here.

First Time Home Buyers: Homes for Sale in Westfield, MA

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 for the First Time Home buyer in Westfield, MA.

Are you a first time homebuyer looking for an affordably priced home in Westfield, MA? This map shows the homes for sale and available between $80,000 and $200,000 in Westfield, MA.

I love working with first time home buyers and have a series of videos available that help explain the process of buying your first home. 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!

Downtown Westfield is under Construction

Westfield, MA has been my home for well over 20 years now and I have found much to love about it. Quiet things have impressed me: The tranquil spaces at Stanley Park, The Fowler Tavern door, the restored Grandmothers’ Garden, the lovely ambiance in the Athenaeum, the highly walkable nature of the downtown areas, the small town atmosphere, the green green green of the trees and open spaces. During the course of my 21 year real estate career, it has been my honor to sell many homeowners their Westfield homes through the years.

Lately, Westfield is experiencing much change in some of these areas as major highway, bridge and city scape projects are undergone. The newest in these projects and the one with a lot of conversation lately is the Town Green project.

Westfield's town green

A bit over a week ago I was set totally aside as I strolled down Elm Street to visit my bank on the Town Green. As I approached the Green there were hoards of construction crews removing all of the trees.

This has opened up a lot of distressed conversation amongst area residents who are saddened by the stark nature of the Green area now. This combined with the traffic frustrations from our bridge project is bringing a lot of concerns to light.

Westfield's Town Green

As a real estate agent in Westfield, I want to share some resources with you that will help to explain the many projects that are being undertaken in our City. I want to help you to find the resources to see that while things are looking a bit torn up right now, the future holds beautiful upgraded spaces.

This blog: Re-Thinking Downtown Westfield has a lot of information on committees and plans.

The District Westfield is a great resource for current news on downtown projects, information on real estate, events, news and updates that impact Downtown Westfield.

This link was suggested to me by Karen Eaton on Twitter and gives good information on the road work details in the City of Westfield.

I hope these pages will help you to keep up to date with the progress of these major improvements to the City of Westfield. If you have a real estate question please feel free to call me anytime: Lesley Lambert, REALTOR, Park Square Realty, Westfield, MA 413-575-3611 or email therealestatenatural@yahoo.com.

I am your proud, grateful and very TIRED Realtor in Western MA!



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Wow, what a year 2010 has been in Western Massachusetts real estate!


Not long into January I started to meet a lot of new first time buyers who found me mostly on the internet. Some were friends that I stay in touch with on Facebook, others I met through social media events and the rest found me through my blog posts and videos. I was soon working with over eight sets of first time home buyers who were trying to take advantage of the tax credit, low interest rates and low purchase prices.

That’s A LOT of showings!

I wish I kept track of how many houses I showed these buyers in total, but I am going to have to guess that it was well over 150 houses between all of them. Five months later six of these buyers are closed or will close this month on their new homes and the others continue to look even with the expiration of the tax credit.

While at the office yesterday my manager handed me a printout with the office standings and was I ever floored! I was listed as the #1 real estate agent at Park Square Realty’s Westfield office for the year to date!



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Too Busy to Notice!


I have been so busy taking care of all of these buyers that I didn’t pay attention to my sales statistics and hadn’t realized exactly where I stood.

Real estate is my career, but I don’t work this hard for the paycheck. I work like this because I want to help my home buyers and sellers realize their real estate dreams and goals. I work this hard because I know that each of these transactions deeply affects their lives and is one of the most important decisions of their life.

That is what makes me so proud…that I have helped so many amazing first time buyers realize their dream of home ownership. The rest is just gravy. Really good, yummy gravy, but still just the top dressing.

Thank you to my clients and customers for your faith in me. Thank you for your trust and for your business. I appreciate you more than you know!



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Now all that door opening has tuckered me out, but I after a little restorative cat nap I will be ready for the next bit of business. Who wants to move?