During the last decade, The Boston real estate market has followed the same trend as that of the US real estate market as a whole, and indeed that of most of the English speaking world.
At the beginning of the 2000s there was a prolonged period of rising prices. Many analysts in fact talk about a housing bubble. While the population of Boston was declining, house prices kept on growing at an amazing rate.
Rising house prices of course mean higher mortgage bond repayments for the consumer. In the case of Boston this soon led to a situation where the average consumer could barely afford the installment of the family home he or she bought.
We all know what happened next. Consumers started to default on their housing loans and banks were forced to repossess countless homes. The market was soon flooded by too much stock, leading to a downward spiral in house prices. This happened all over the English speaking world and Boston did not escape the trend.
Does this mean that now is a bad time to invest in a home in the Boston area? Two years ago the answer would no doubt have been yes. At that time prices were still dropping in real terms and it would have taken a relatively long time before you could recover your investment.
Right now it seems as if the market has reached its bottom. Prices have stabilized and if one can believe the economists, the economy is slowly starting to pick up again.
When it comes to investing in the property market, the same principles count as when you are investing in the stock market. The mistake made by many novices in the marketplace is to buy high and sell low. They buy when prices are at their highest, then cling to the investment only to sell when prices hit bottom.
That is not the way to go about a long term investment, whether it's in stocks or in real estate. You should 'buy low and sell high'. Taking into account this little bit of advice, now is very likely a good time to start looking seriously at investing in real estate again.
Property prices in Boston in the current climate offer bargains to the clever investor that are unlikely to repeat themselves again in the near future. Anyone with either cash or the ability to get finance can buy a property in this city right now that will in all likelihood turn out to be an excellent long term investment.
Do not consider your real investment in the Boston real estate market as a way to make quick money though. Hold on to the property until the market has been rising again for at least three or four years. It's difficult to predict the exact top of an upswing, but with real estate there's normally a period when prices start to stop increasing at such a rapid rate and houses take longer to sell. That's when you should get out of the market again.
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