Boston Movers Blog

I was hesitant to use a moving service, but I had such a great experience with Marathon Movers that I would definitely use them again in a heartbeat. The movers were extremely polite, friendly, and efficient. Kudos to the whole team!

- Camilla Reteki

You may have heard this about movers, some companies under bid and then hope to find a reason during the move to bump up the cost. Marathon won’t do this, they’ll give you the correct price up front. They’ve moved me twice into and out of storage and each time they did an excellent job. I have a very heavy and larger armoire and the previous company I used, Gentle Giant, brought a crane because it was too big to go up the stairs. I had a window taken out and they dangled it in to my bedroom.

When we moved out of that house to storage, Marathon had a crane scheduled to do the same. But on my move day, the foreman took a look at the situation, canceled the crane (saving me a bunch of money), had his guys dissemble the armoire and took it down the steps. On delivery from storage to my new house, he reassembled it in the new bedroom. I’m not sure many movers would have done that as it reduced their final bill a little.

They are excellent.

- Kevin G. Flannery

2009 was one of steady improvement in the Boston Moving and Real Estate markets. The monthly average of home inventory available approached the 6-8 months of supply that is considered by most a balanced market. The average monthly inventory (11,330 units) was 19.25 percent lower than 2008 average level of 14,030 units statewide. This translates to 8.6 months of supply on average for 2009, compared to 10.8 months of supply on average in 2008. Many realtors are reading this as a sign that the strict buyer's market is nearing its end. Time will tell if this is the start of recovering prices, or if the continuing drag of high unemployment and the end of the homebuyer tax credit will lead to another stall. But for now, everyone is taking the report as a breath of fresh air after 3 years of poor market performance. The number of detached single-family homes sold in 2009 went up 4.1 percent from 2008 (from 35,565 to 37,020 homes). The number of condominiums sold in 2009 went up 2.1 percent (from 15,039 to 15,361 units). The median price for a single-family home declined 6.8 percent from 2008 (from $311,000 to $290,000). The condominium market saw median prices decrease 7.2 percent from 2008 (from $271,500 to $252,000). For more details NEWS!!! Massachusetts Association of Realtors.