Whenever you sell property in Massachusetts, the state makes you pay an excise tax. On a $500,000 home, that comes out to just under $2,300. But now Gov. Charlie Baker has proposed increasing that tax to raise another $137 million each year, for the purpose of strengthening the state’s defenses against climate change. “It’s pretty…
FACT: many Cape homeowners could be underwater & under-insured, the prospect of a hurricane tearing up the East Coast through Long Island and Connecticut, hitting Cape Cod and heading up to Maine “is an event that keeps insurance people awake at night.” BARNSTABLE — The prospect of a hurricane tearing up the East Coast through…
The Massachusetts Homestead Law is a very useful law that was put into place as a protection of homeowners’ property. The law may protect your home against the claims of creditors. The act applies to your home if: You live in the home or plan to live in it You use the home or plan…
You think you have a tendency to be spiteful? Until you’ve seen these houses, you don’t even know what the word “spite” really means. We’ve all heard of tiny houses and fixer-uppers, but have you ever heard of a spite house? They’re just what you might imagine: a home built just for the purpose of being spiteful to…
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Using Reasonable Care to clear snow and Ice is a vital ruling. While most laws governing real estate date back 100 years or more, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court changed long-standing rules governing the duty of property owners to clear snow and ice in a 2010 decision, Papadopoulos v. Target Corp. For more than a…
Established as a “praying village” in 1670, Mashpee is the ancestral home of the Mashpee Wampanoag and headquarters of the modern tribe. The Mashpee Wampanoag Museum (414 Main St., 508-477-9339) occupies a classic half-Cape built around 1793 adjacent to the Mashpee River and the Herring Run. Outside is a traditional round bark-covered Wampanoag house. Inside,…
