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European Sensibility, Contemporary Living. Weston Home for sale

March 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Weston MA does not have a whole lot of European Sensibility, Contemporary Living in the many beautiful center entrance colonials that dot the landscape in the town.  Contemporary homes have a different feel to them.  63 Westcliff Road in Weston is a showcase of this living.  Designed by noted architect Maurice K Smith and built in 1968 this home stands the test of time in providing unique living space and a connection to the landscape from every room.  Built in the “Block” style of architecture each individual room has it’s own unique connection to the landscape in which it is place.  Each bedroom has it’s own balcony.  The dining room is awash with light throughout the day because it has windows on both sides.

A screened in porch is attached to the casual family room off the kitchen for quiet cocktails nestled into the trees, or listening to the Red Sox battle for supremacy throughout the season.  A sound system upgrade throughout the house and outside was added by the current owners.  So too, the lighting system and electrical system was completely upgraded by the owners during their stewardship of this wonderful home.More upgrades, like the kitchen appliances, a wine cellar and a fully finished exercise room and play room in the basement make this home feel much larger than it’s square footage.

63 West Cliff, Weston, MA

Sunday March 11 from 1-3PM we will have an Open House.  This home was featured by both the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald as the Home of the Week for good reason.  Living in a home with such design and style is not for everyone.  The sensibility is more European than New England.  This is a home that is not like your neighbors, but one that can reflect your own sensibility and design.  Block architecture is described as the design of each room separately so that it has the best light from outside, the best placement on the landscape and fully function in and of it’s own.  When all the rooms are finished with their specific design then the architect goes about putting it all together in a cohesive manner.  What happens then is that the homes outside is not block like as with Center Entrance Colonials.  The form fits the landscape in a way that you can view out and view back in to your home in differing ways through the house.  63 Westcliff Road is worth the visit, come to the Open House this Sunday March 11 from 1-3 and see for yourself.

Listing Price: 1,595,000
Address: 63 Westcliff Road
City: Weston
State: MA
ZIP: 02493
MLS # (if any): 71298492
Square Feet: 3340
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3F 2H
Basement (full, 1/2, finished, unfinished): Full finished

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Weston MA 02493 Housing Report Single Family

March 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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63 Westcliff Road, Weston, MA 02493

With the weather turning springlike again it is time for Open Houses and the ritual of looking for your next home.  Activity has not been crazy in Weston this last month.  Things are still moving slightly slow, although there was one agent who was interviewed for a local media outlet and this agent reported that $2 million dollar homes in Weston were going quickly.  Sadly this agent is full of it and her “puffery” incriminates all agents.  Here are the real facts from MLS.

Single Family Active Listings: 78    Avg. Liv.Area SqFt: 5,255.91     Avg. List$: $2,496,253    Avg. List$/SqFt: $429     Avg. DOM: 195.36   

Single Family Under Agreement Listings: 11    Avg. Liv.Area SqFt: 12,679.55     Avg. List$: $1,291,636    Avg. List$/SqFt: $309     Avg. DOM: 129.27

 

63 Westcliff Road, Weston, MA 02493

Single Family Sold Listings: 5    Avg. Liv.Area SqFt: 4,326.20     Avg. List$: $1,483,980    Avg. List$/SqFt: $337     Avg. DOM: 205.20    Avg. Sale$: $1,332,405   Avg. Sale$/SqFt: $313

As I can see from the statistics there was only ONE house sold in the $2 million dollar price range.  That is no stampede.  Days on market is really atrocious at this point.  What I do like to see is that the Under Agreement days coming down into more normal ranges. This bodes well for 2012.  There is a lot of pent up desire for new homes and people getting their homes sold. The excitement on the street is strong, but you will never find a good agent making up numbers just because some media outlet put a microphone in front of them.

Single Family Expired Listings: 5    Avg. Liv.Area SqFt: 5,851.80     Avg. List$: $2,422,800    Avg. List$/SqFt: $394     Avg. DOM: 179.80   

Single Family Canceled Listings: 2    Avg. Liv.Area SqFt: 3,350.50     Avg. List$: $1,025,000    Avg. List$/SqFt: $303     Avg. DOM: 215.00  

OPEN HOUSE MARCH 11, 1-3 PM

Listing Price: 1,595,000
Address: 63 Westcliff Road
City: Weston
State: MA
ZIP: 02493
MLS # (if any): 71298492
Square Feet: 3340
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3F 2H
Basement (full, 1/2, finished, unfinished): Full Finished

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Weston, MA A town for nature lover’s near the city

March 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Westcliff Road, Weston, MA

Weston, Massachusetts is the perfect community for people who love the urban culture and nightlife of a city like Boston, but want to live with a connection to nature and the outdoors. This homey, bedroom community, just 12 miles west of the city, is close to Boston, yet worlds away.

Despite its close proximity to Boston, the town has demonstrated a longtime commitment to land stewardship. The Weston Land Trust and Land’s Sake are non-profits dedicated to the preservation of open space and responsible land management. The Weston Forest and Trail Association is also engaged in conservation activities as well as promoting Weston’s conservation areas as recreational venues. The town maintains more than 60 miles of hiking and horseback riding trails, playgrounds, ball fields, golf courses and cross-country skiing areas.

OPEN HOUSE THIS SUNDAY MARCH 11 FROM 1-3

63 West Cliff, Weston, MA 02493

For nature enthusiasts who wish they could be outdoors year round or at least feel like they were, the home located at 63 Westcliff Road in Weston allows its occupants to do just that.  This beautiful modern home was built by Maurice K Smith, a famous MIT trained architect and long time professor of architecture there. The house is perfectly integrated into its wooded setting. Its  large windows, many balconies and porches, and organic forms blur the lines between inside and out, allowing its occupants to fully experience the changing seasons throughout the year. In the spring, the house is lost in an explosion of greenery; in the fall, there’s a dazzling display of color; in winter, the abstract forms of the trees are highlighted by a sparkling layer of snow. More dramatic weather produces an even more dramatic effect giving the house an almost mystical quality. Imagine being completely surrounded by a dazzling lighting storm while sipping wine on the couch or sitting beside a cozy fire watching snow softly cover the entire landscape.

Weston allows its residents to live the paradox of being  urbane nature lovers. The house at 63 Westcliff takes this to the next level.  Weston MA is a town for nature lover’s who want to be near the city.

Listing Price: 1,595,000
Address: 63 Westcliff
City: Weston
State: MA
ZIP: 02493
MLS # (if any): 71298492
Square Feet: 3340
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3F 2H
Basement (full, 1/2, finished, unfinished): Full Finished

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Home for the Holidays, New home for the holidays.

November 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
4 Helock Road, Wayland, MA 01778 Dudley Pond Cape with Fireplace

4 Helock Road, Wayland, MA 01778 Dudley Pond Cape with Fireplace

Here comes December, the last month of the year.  So much to do, so many things to complete, do you feel overwhelmed?  Now is the time for action, enough with the research, the websites, all the data, and what is it with the data, it is all so confusing and contradictory? Real estate is made complicated by your viewpoint.  Are you the buyer, or the seller?  Are you the agent, or the other agent?  Are you the lawyer, or the other lawyer?  And all of those questions don’t even arrive until you are at the table, there is just so much work to get to table. What house, what neighborhood, what loan, what bank, what paperwork what weekends looking, and looking what, what!

Several months ago, or longer it can be safe to say, you decided to buy, or to sell.  You started down the road hitting the Internet for information. There is a lot of it there.  You checked that information out randomly with your friends, family, colleagues or just randomly talking to people.  This bolsters your information already gathered from the Internet.

Listing Price: $349000
Address: 4 Hemlock Road
City: Wayland
State: MA
ZIP: 01778
MLS # (if any): 71221683
Square Feet: 1476
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 1/1
Basement (full, 1/2, finished, unfinished): unfinished

14 Overlood Road, Wayland, MA 01778

You remember what it was like to move to a new house, your moves through all your other living situations whether they were good or bad and rolled it all up into a ball. That was how you were going to get your new home–or sell your home.  You wanted the most if you are selling and the least if you are buying. Every single day people are coming to an agreement about price and buying/selling.  Real Estate is simple.

You make your money when you buy your home.  So from all statistical sense there really hasn’t been a better time to buy with the prices in a buyers favor for many years gone by.  Interest rates, for those who qualify, have not been this low since our parents were young.

With prices low and money cheap there is not a better time to buy. That is why you see so many cash buys.  People with money realize we are at the bottom and it is where money should be to make money.

63 Westcliff Road, Weston, MA 02493

On the sell side, if you haven’t been in your home longer than 5 years you are loosing value.  If you have been in your home 20 years you have seen incredible appreciation of your asset.  Now, you may have used that appreciation for uses along the way and it is not available to you now, but that is just what it is and we need to understand. There is a ceiling and a floor to prices of homes.  They are still of value and the market is stabilizing.  Money is starting to flow back into real estate from the investor side and the consumer side is chugging along at reasonable rates.  Not the rates of the heyday, but, again, they are gone, now is now.

December is a month to close and get into your new home.  Start building your equity now, there really isn’t a better time.

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Boston Herald HomeSm@rt “Harmony, Luxury in Weston.”

November 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Last Saturday the Boston Herald in their HomeSm@rt section wrote about my listing at 63 Westcliff Rd, Weston MA 02493.  Because of that publicity we have had a great deal of interest in this home which is NOT a COLONIAL This is a wonderful contemporary home designed by architect Maurice K Smith.  Like Frank Lloyd Wright, Smith designs from the inside out. What that means is that each of the rooms is designed for space, function, light and sound individually and then once that is done to perfection then the architect figures out a way to connect it all on the outside.

In this case it is a wonderful design so woven into the fabric of the land on which it sits that the home literally nestles into the land.  From the inside you get a sense of the nature outside because of all the glass and windows.  Most people who have already seen this home can’t believe that it is less than 4,000 square feet of living space because it lives so much larger.  Special built in cabinets, tables, chairs and shelving give the home a functional and beautiful sense throughout.

Paul Restuccia and Nancy Lane of the Boston Herald did a great job of capturing this home in word and image.  Read their piece here, or look it over below.

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Boston Herald HomeSm@rt 63 Wescliff Weston

Listing Price: 1,630,000
Address: 63 Westcliff Road
City: Weston
State: MA
ZIP: 02493
MLS # (if any): 71298492
Square Feet: 3340
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3 F, 2 H
Basement (full, 1/2, finished, unfinished): Full Finished

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Architecturally Significant home Opens it’s doors, Weston MA

November 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
63 West Cliff, Weston, MA Living Room

63 West Cliff, Weston, MA Living Room

63 Westcliff Road in Weston, MA 02493 will open it’s doors to the Architectural community and the public from 1-3 PM this Sunday 10/20/2011.  What is interesting about this house is how the architect designs and uses site, materials and design to create an environment for living.

It’s that time of year when most of us are making the dreaded move from spending all of our time outdoors to spending most of it indoors. As the days get shorter and decidedly colder, it only makes sense to make the move inside, but what if it were possible to stay outside year-round? Or, if you couldn’t actually be outside, what if you could feel like you were? Wouldn’t that be great? Maurice K Smith, a famous MIT trained architect and long time professor of architecture there, designed and built a beautiful modern home in Weston that allows you to do just that. The house is perfectly integrated into its wooded setting.

63 West Cliff, Weston, MA

The large windows, many balconies and porches, and organic forms of the house blur the lines between inside and out, allowing its occupants to fully experience the changing seasons throughout the year. In the spring, the house is lost in an explosion of greenery; in the fall, there’s a spectacular display of color; in winter, the abstract forms of the trees are highlighted by a sparkling layer of snow. More dramatic weather produces an even more dramatic effect, giving the house an almost mystical quality. Imagine being completely surrounded by a dazzling lighting storm while sipping wine on the couch or watching snow softly cover the entire landscape while nestled beside a cozy fire. Marcel Proust once said, “A change in weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” After just a few moments in this house, you’ll know exactly what he meant.

Submitted by Eileen Newman of YourStorys Realty.

Listing Price: 1630000
Address: 63 Westcliff Road
City: Weston
State: MA
ZIP: 02493
MLS # (if any): 71298492
Square Feet: 3799
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 3 F, 1 H
Basement (full, 1/2, finished, unfinished): Full Finished

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Internet rules the search in Real Estate

October 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Boston Area Quick Move In Homes search always begins on the internet.  You are first looking at the broad brushstroke issues, prices in neighborhoods, schools, resale value, proximity to what you need to be close to are the original and the final determiners of your search. The words you use for these searches are the same from neighborhood to neighborhood unless you put a name, or a development name to the search.

If you have a smart phone you can drive to the neighborhood and search in the area for everything you want.  This is the way real estate search is going.  The process of finding what you want is so much easier these days than it was years ago when all the information was stored in the Real Estate Agents book.  The internet does not always have the correct information, but you can certainly search to your heart’s desire for what you want.

QR (Quick Response) codes, do you like them?  Have you used them?  They do deliver a wealth of information and services to those who train their smart phone at the code. For those who might not understand, QR codes are those black squares like you see here.  When you hold your code reader to them, they will take your smart phone to a web site describing its product or service.  The wealth of information is the key hear.  You can have at your finger tips all the vitals about the home you just saw the video about.  You can send that video you your parents, your carpenter, or whomever.  The technology is here and I am beginning to test the waters, what do you think?

Listing Price: 900,000
Address: 437 South Avenue
City: Weston
State: MA
ZIP: 02493
MLS # (if any): 71221683
Square Feet: 3191
Bedrooms: 6
Bathrooms: 4/1
Basement (full, 1/2, finished, unfinished): Full Finished

 

 

 

 

 

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Best Friends with Home Benefits, Weston MA 02493

October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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437 South Avenue Weston MA 02493

The unique property at 437 South Avenue in Weston is tailor made for best friends.  Imagine two homes on the same large lot.  Separate and far enough apart for comfort and privacy, but still on the same large lot.  This unique property has a second home that was grandfathered into this property years ago. The benefit is that you can have your best friend right next door and two homes for the price of a nice single family home in Weston.

Truth be told, this property with the two homes is now the best priced home in all of Weston by price per square foot.  This is a rare opportunity and made even better by the fact the owner is highly motivated to get this property sold.  The larger house has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a fully finished basement, three fireplaces and a two car garage.  The second home is a two bedroom, 2 and one half bathroom unit that has a new AC unit and nice built in’s.

7 High Meadow Dining Room view

The property is located on Rt 30 right across the street from Weston high school.  You and your best friend could continue this legacy with your children who will grow up right next door from each other.

The lot is professionally manicured and is 1.38 acres large.  The Weston Schools Systems is considered one of the best in the state.  This set up would also work for an extended family that needs space enough for two.  Right now two sisters with their best friend husbands own the property.  The girl’s mother comes over every day to look after the young children.  It is like a family compound.  This property is priced to sell and will not be on the market much longer.  You can move into Weston with two homes for a low price.  What could be better than that?  437 South Avenue, Weston, MA 02493 is a special deal. Give me a call today.

Listing Price: 949000
Address: 437 South Avenue
City: Weston
State: MA
ZIP: 02493
MLS # (if any): 71273984
Square Feet: 3716
Bedrooms: 6
Bathrooms: 4.1
Basement (full, 1/2, finished, unfinished): Yes, Full Finished

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Family Compound, Weston Homes for Sale, Price Reduced

September 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Weston, MA 02493

A full family compound in Weston, 02493 is on the market and the price was just reduced.These kinds of properties don’t come along every year.  In fact these homes were grandfathered in a number of years ago and it is safe to say you won’t be seeing two full homes on one large lot in Weston any time soon, if ever.  437 South Avenue and the second home on the same property with a 7 High Meadow address for mailing purposes are just the right homes for a family that would like to have their own family compound.  The larger home has 4 bedrooms and a full finished basement.  The smaller house has 2 bedrooms and 2 and one half baths is fully air-conditioned and has a wonderful built in cabinet in the dining room.

The homes are private from one another but connected with a paved driveway.  If you are an investor and already know that if you are an owner occupant you can rent the second property to keep your overall mortgage that much lower.  The investor also likes the fact that the homes have their own privacy.  This property is located directly across from the Weston High School fields and has easy access to the major highways in the area.  There is 1.38 acres of professionally landscaped property.  A yard for play, a place for a garden and a nice patio are all part of this sale.

Weston MA Town Hall, 02493

People who have toured this home are amazed that you can obtain both homes for such a value price.  The truth is that the seller is motivated to sell this home as they are relocating and have already purchased another home.  These homes at this value price will not be on the market that long.  In a era of great deals on homes, this one has to be one of the best. It is literally the lowest priced home per square foot in all of Weston.  Come see 437 South Avenue by giving Larry Lawfer a call at 972-322-7776 and he will be happy to show you around and discuss your options.

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Motivated Seller Open House 437 South Ave, Weston, MA 02493

September 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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437 South Avenue, Weston, MA 02493

Motivated Seller Open House 437 South Ave, Weston, MA 02493 to be held on Sept 25 2011 from 1PM to 3PM.  This home was correctly priced at 1.1 million dollars when it came on the market. You can check out the comps yourself.  There are several people who are working on their offers, but the seller has decided that he wants to sell this home in the next three weeks.  This is a motivated seller.  Come to the open houses and see what you can get for the least amount of money in Weston.

Weston is a coveted community because of it’s schools which rank among the best in the state.  Students from the Weston schools go on to the top schools in the country and thrive.  The community is diverse and educated.  This particular listing has not one but two properties on the 1.38 acres of land which is located directly across the street from the high school.  Two properties on one piece of land is highly unusual in the well regulated landscape of Weston land.  This unique situation gives you some options.  Of course you could knock down both houses and put up your own “McMansion”, but those days are winding down.

437 South Avenue, Weston, MA 02493, price reduced

Architecture these days is moving towards smaller, more efficient homes with all the amenities.

The larger home of this property has an updated kitchen, finished basement and four bedrooms. The smaller home has new windows, built in cabinet in the dining room and is full air conditioned.  It has 2 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms.  An owner occupant has the ability to rent one of the homes as long as they are residing in the other.  I do not expect this home to last at this price.  Getting the most for the least is what this economy is all about and the homes on 437 South Avenue in Weston MA 02493 are just such homes.

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