Berkshire House-Hunters Learn to Check Site Addresses You are doing some serious house-hunting. You’ve been Googling ‘newest Pittsfield listings’, but when you click on the most popular sites, somehow the ‘newest Pittsfield listings’ are the same ones you’ve seen before. Worse, some of them turn out to have been sold! Or the price was wrong! […]

Making a Pittsfield New Home Dream Real Building a new home exactly the way you’ve always wanted it may not be as unattainable as it might seem. To take the first step toward making any dream home real, you have to see if it’s practical: map out how much building it today would cost. Start […]

Retirement Question — Buy a Home or Rent You don’t have to be on the verge of retirement to begin thinking about the nuts and bolts of your future living arrangements. There is more to it than just adjusting your monthly budget. For many people who are winding up their full-time working lives, a governing […]

Seasonal Mood Elevators Brighten Berkshire Spirits As fall becomes early winter, the crisp air, festive celebrations and holiday spirit do their job of gladdening Pittsfield hearts. However, after the eggnog bowl disappears — once January rolls around and the holiday decorations go into cartons — it’s common to feel varying degrees of the ‘winter blues.’ […]