John Kinnane, president of the Kinnane Group announces that Chelsea Berndt of  East Providence, Rhode Island has joined the real estate firm as a real estate   salesperson.

Over the last 20+ years, Chelsea has primarily worked as a customer service professional in various industries.  In her teenage years, she began working for her family’s business in Swansea.  After receiving a certificate in conference planning in 1996, she worked for over 11 years in a high-end manufacturing company, EFD/Nordson in customer service, inside sales and then managing trade shows worldwide.  For the past 6 years, she has managed the Mansfield, Massachusetts office of an international manufacturing company.   After 14 years of being married, she and her husband decided to start a family and love to spend time together with their 3 year-old son, including traveling, skiing, camping, swimming, taking hikes and devoting their time helping people in their community. 

The Kinnane Group is a full servie real  estate company servicing the southcoast region of Massachusetts and the east bay  area of Rhode Island.  Founder, Chuck Kinnane, began brokering real estate in  Swansea, Massachusetts in 1960. The company is now under the direction of John Kinnane.  

After enjoying nearly 53 years of success, it's exciting that we are able to continue to enhance our brokerage team in our general service area with the likes of yet another accomplished and top quality individual as Cheslea

The local real estate market in April continued to strengthen as we recorded a 4th consecutive month of double digit increases in residential sales  volume, inclusive of single family residences, multiple family residences and individual residential condominium units.

We've experienced increases in sales volume each month during this calendar year with April reaching a total of 188 residential housing unit sales, the largest jump in sales volume month-to-month, up 22.08% over March, and up 88% since January.

Despite the higher volume of activity posted in April a softening of mean and median sales prices occurred during the same period of time, this after experiencing 3 months of gains in both price categories.

During April the median sale price dipped 12.14% to $209,900. while the mean sale price dipped 9.30% to $239,350. Worth noting, however, is that in each category despite the continuation of seesawing prices the overall trend since January 1st is for increases of 0.50% and 0.73% in median and mean sales prices, respectively.

These sales statistics cover the towns of Berkley, Dartmouth, Dighton, Fall River, Little Compton, RI, Somerset, Swansea, Tiverton, RI, and Westport. They reveal monthly activity for residential properties that went under agreement from 01/01/2013 through to 04/30/2013 in our local market area as serviced by the H3MLS-Property Information Network.

If you're ready to jump off the fence and into the local real estate market and take advantage of the opportunities that exist, contact us today to determine your options as either a buyer or a seller. We're here to work through the complexities of the local real estate market, make sure you neither under sell or over pay for your property, and potentially save you thousands of dollars in the process!

We are ready to serve all of your local real estate appraisal and brokerage needs. Our general coverage area includes the southcoast region of  Massachusetts and the east bay region of Rhode Island. Please feel free to contact us today!

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