{"id":171,"date":"2010-06-24T16:12:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.topbev.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-06-24T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:12:18","slug":"braintree-massachusetts-a-great-place-to-practice-real-estate-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.topbev.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Braintree, Massachusetts&#8211;A Great Place to Practice Real Estate Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While my principal office location is on Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts, I spend a considerable amount of time in my Braintree, Massachusetts office (150 Grossman Drive, Suite 405, Braintree, Massachusetts: 781-849-5906; Facsimile 781-848-3656). Real estate attorneys are finding out every day that their physical location is critical to garnering clients who buy and sell homes, and require real estate mortgage financing.<\/p>\n<p>Braintree, Massachusetts is literally the &#8220;Gateway to the South Shore&#8221; of Massachusetts. Located approximately 14 miles south of Boston, Braintree offers convenience for South Shore real estate transactions to many thriving residential communities like Norwell, Hingham, Scituate, Cohasset and Milton.<\/p>\n<p>I have enjoyed having an office in Braintree for more than 15 years. There are cultural advantages in Braintree; Thayer Academy is located there. There are wonderful restaurants and one of the most active shopping Malls in Massachusetts. The Public Library is well-run as are other municipal services.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not hesitate to contact me for all of your South Shore real estate transactions. I am available at any time, at any place, to give you the kind of legal service which you deserve. For those of you in the Western suburbs, Topkins &amp; Bevans also\u00a0has a\u00a0full-service office at 255 Bear Hill Road, Waltham, Massachusetts (781-890-6230; Facsimile: 781-466-6982).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While my principal office location is on Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts, I spend a considerable amount of time in my Braintree, Massachusetts office (150 Grossman Drive, Suite 405, Braintree, Massachusetts: 781-849-5906; Facsimile 781-848-3656). Real estate attorneys are finding out every day that their physical location is critical to garnering clients who buy and sell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.topbev.com\/?p=171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Braintree, Massachusetts&#8211;A Great Place to Practice Real Estate Law<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,113,112,114],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-braintree","tag-legal-services","tag-massachusetts","tag-south-shore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138,"url":"https:\/\/blog.topbev.com\/?p=138","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":0},"title":"Massachusetts Real Estate Transactions-A world of their own","date":"June 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I am frequently asked by out of state realtors and mortgage professionals about deals \"going into escrow\" or the work of the \"title company.\" Very few out of Massachusetts people are aware of the idiosyncrasies of Massachusetts real estate practice, which include the following: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1. 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We draft, and review, real estate offers and purchase and sale agreements, examine the title, prepare the title insurance policy and conduct the real estate closing, many times\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"client confidentiality\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":278,"url":"https:\/\/blog.topbev.com\/?p=278","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":3},"title":"Getting the deal done&#8212;Common Goals almost Always Make People representing both sides &#8220;Comrades in Arms&#8221;","date":"July 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I was speaking with a fellow Massachusetts attorney yesterday about our practices. He is a partner in a downtown Boston firm; my firm is mid-sized and\u00a0mostly\u00a0suburban, with an office on Newbury Street in Boston, but one office in the Western suburb of Waltham and one office in the Southern suburb\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"real estate attorney\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28370,"url":"https:\/\/blog.topbev.com\/?p=28370","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":4},"title":"March 2015 Newsletter Trending Now","date":"March 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"T&B Trending March 2015 Vol 2-2015 \u00a0 Housing Market Continues Slow Climb Toward Stable Levels \u00a0 Source: Dsnews.com \u00a0 The latest Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) from Freddie Mac, released Wednesday, showed that the U.S. housing market showed continued stabilization for the fourth straight month in December. 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