In recent years, Massachusetts has faced growing challenges in its housing market, with increasing home prices and a lack of affordable housing options for residents. To address this growing crisis, the state has implemented a series of legislative changes aimed at expanding housing opportunities—one of the most promising being the new laws that make it …
When you are having a home custom designed and built, the first step is typically a consultation with an architect, perhaps more than one, to discuss your vision for your home and begin to get to know the architect. Once you have decided on the architect that best suits your needs and seems to have …
Note that title; it isn’t “Why Hire an Architect?” It’s “Why Hire a Cape Cod Architect?” If you have worked with an architect in designing your home in the Boston area, or perhaps New York or Philadelphia, it would be understandable to want to work with that same architect in designing a second home on …
With Plymouth a prominent town in Massachusetts, those of us who live in the commonwealth – and perhaps throughout New England – like to think “our” settlement was the first settlement in what is now the United States. It wasn’t. The first English settlement was at Jamestown, established in 1607, 13 years before the Pilgrims …
According to a recent article in the Cape Cod Times, there were 88 homes for sale on Cape Cod under $1M in January. In January of 2020, before the pandemic, there were nearly a thousand homes for sale with a price of less than a million dollars. Anecdotal evidence indicates that bidding wars on homes …
Second only to the “Do I need an architect?” question is probably “Is hiring an architect worth it?” As Cape Cod architects working throughout New England, we’d like to say that the answer to either question is a definitive “Yes!” But a more realistic, thoughtful reply is “Probably.” If you own a home that suits …
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