A residential street lies adjacent to the UMass campus. Not the UMass library in the background.
To address issues resulting from the density of off-campus student housing and absentee landlords, the town of Amherst recently adopted a permitting system for rental properties. It will go into effect on January 1, 2014. More…
A list of Amherst that shows how popular the flagged “ACT” status is. Click to enlarge.
Starting on Tuesday, May 21, REALTORS® and other real estate agents will no longer have the ability to flag a listing on MLSPIN.com, which is the multiple listing service that serves the Pioneer Valley and most of the state.
The Kestrel Land Trust and Belchertown Conservation Commission acquired over 100 acres for conservation.
Kestrel Land Trust and Belchertown Conservation Commission announced today the creation of Meads Corner Conservation Area on Gold Street in Belchertown. This land, sold for conservation by the Jackson Family, is located in Belchertown and Pelham and abuts the Cadwell Memorial Forest.
Northampton is one of three Pioneer Valley urban centers that Millennials would find more desirable with passenger rail service.
The plan to bring Amtrak passenger rail service to the west side of the Connecticut River has the potential to spur the real estate market in the urban communities of Holyoke, Northampton, and Greenfield. The Vermonter line will be returning to the west side of the river for a more direct route from Vermont to Connecticut, which currently runs through Amherst and Palmer. The “Knowledge Corridor” will be a high speed rail service. It is part of a larger project to bring faster passenger train service to the Northeast Corridor. More…
An Amtrack passenger train crosses Station Road in Amherst, MA, where two derailments occurred in 2011.
The Patrick administration recently announced a $500,000 grant for improvements to the New England Central Railroad (NECR) in Amherst. The railroad is matching the grant with $1,052,597. The purpose of the grant is to help support economic growth, which the railroad has been doing for Amherst and the Pioneer Valley for over 150 years.
Route 9 in Hadley is the town’s commercial center. Located on Route 9, at 211 Russell Street, is a 4 bedroom Cape-Cod style home that allows for a wide array of uses under its current business zoning.
Amherst fit the bill to rank 2nd on the Boston Globe’s list of “Dreamtowns”.
The Boston Globe recently released results from their Dreamtown Finder, an online tool to help determine a person’s own dream town in Massachusetts. From the data collected from this tool, The Globe put together a list of the top 25 dream towns. Eleven of these dream towns are located in the Pioneer Valley. More…
Located adjacent to the Amherst Woods subdivision, is East Woods a neighborhood of upscale homes in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Situated on a corner lot at 24 Tanglewood Road, this executive colonial boasts 4,426 square feet of living space with five bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, and an attached three-car garage. More…
This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the REALTOR® Code of Ethics. The history of how the ethics code came to be is an interesting one and worth exploring further. While I would love to expound on the history of the code, a member of the REALTOR® board of the San Francisco Bay Area, the Bay East Association of REALTORS® has posted an informative video on the topic (See below).
A jogger on the rail trail with tunnel under Spruce Hill Road in Hadley.
I regularly drive under an overpass of the Norwottuck Rail Trail on Snell Street in Amherst to and from my office at Sawicki Real Estate on University Dr., but had never taken the time to explore it. So when a free sunny Sunday afternoon created an opportunity to do so, I loaded my 15-year-old mountain bike and made my way to the office.
