New Massachusetts home inspection law: What real estate professionals need to know
10/27/25
By: Jessica Gray Kelly and Paul Miller
On October 15, 2025, a major change in Massachusetts residential real estate transactions relative to home inspections took effect. Under the new legislation, titled An Act Relative to the Affordable Homes Act, sellers …
Is the standard 6% commission fee for real estate agents a thing of the past?
7/24/24
By: Mandy D. Hexom and Tim Soefje
You may have heard the news about upcoming changes to real estate commissions throughout the nation. The National Association of Realtors (“NAR”), the largest trade association of more than 1.5 million real estate …
2/9/23
By: Jessica Gray Kelly & Ryan Giggi
On February 2, 2023, Massachusetts’s Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) upheld a real estate broker’s right to recover lost commissions after her clients breached an oral exclusivity contract and purchased a home on their …