Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Shutterstock In this biweekly series, Realtor Diaries, we hear from the people at the center of a wilder-than-ever market. Today, an hour-by-hour glimpse into the working world of Scott, 45, a broker in Worcester, Massachusetts.
9 a.m. I start calling back clients and diving into work. Worcester is getting a lot of hype right now. Do you know it’s the second biggest city in New England? Second only to Boston. That always shocks people. Anyway, lately, it’s always written up as one of the top ten cities; coming up on all these “where to live and be happy” lists. People are eating that up. The Chamber of Commerce has paid someone well. Worcester’s publicist is doing one hell of a job.
12 p.m. I’m working on a sale with a family who came this way from Boston. They’re buying a big house in a pretty, somewhat suburban-feeling area in Westwood Hills, off Salisbury Street. That’s about as fancy as it gets in Worcester. They even have special street signs, brown and made out of wood, probably hand-painted by someone, who knows. The same house in Newton would be $3 million. Here it’s somewhere under $1 million.
All of us realtors are just waiting for more inventory to pop up. Hopefully older people are warming to the idea of selling their homes now that COVID is nearing the end. They didn’t want people coming to their house, and coughing on their door knobs, but they’re more relaxed now. Hopefully April will bring more homes. But then again, we’re done with COVID, but now there’s Putin.
i drove hours from Amherst to see Aretha Franklin sing at Hanover Theater in Worcester remember town for friendly locals snd great Italian food Happy that its looking up 🇦🇺
Only thing sexy about it is CookiesWorcest and their helpful staff. NJGov let’s get our act together!