Top priorities for relocating home buyers, according to real estate blogger Leslie Mann of Gibson Sotheby’s International Real Estate:
■ Commute (typically promoted as distance from Boston) and/or commuting options like the T and commuter rail and proximity to major roadways
■ Schools (rankings, locations, proximity of private schools)
■ Median home price/tax rate
■ New versus old construction
■ Size of home
■ Cultural/artistic and recreational opportunities
■ Shopping (includes groceries and furniture stores to decorate “new” homes)
■ Proximity to hospitals and other medical facilities
■ Spiritual opportunities/places of worship
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