Kevin Hoang

Massachusetts issues two real estate licences. A salesperson licence is the entry-level one, and it requires the holder to work under the supervision of a broker. A broker licence requires documented full-time practice as a salesperson first, further classroom education, a separate state examination, and three sponsor references. Most practising agents hold the salesperson licence.

Kevin has been licensed in Massachusetts since 2021 and holds the broker licence. Any Massachusetts licence can be looked up by name on the Division of Occupational Licensure register, which is the right way to check this claim rather than take it on faith.

He practises under Keller Williams Realty, from the office at 150 West St, Needham, MA 02494.

The written guides on this site are the actual process, not marketing for it. If you want to know what working together looks like before you call anyone, read them first — that is what they are for.

• The buyer’s roadmap — every step from pre-approval to the closing table, and what each one is actually for.
• The seller’s roadmap — preparation, pricing, marketing, and how offers get negotiated.
• The first-time buyer guide — the Massachusetts programmes and the mistakes that cost the most.
• A written home valuation — built from comparable sales, not an automated estimate.

Two things shape how he handles a transaction. The first is that a Massachusetts purchase runs through two contracts, not one — the Offer and then the Purchase & Sale agreement — and most of what goes wrong for buyers happens in the gap between them. The second is that this region is decided street by street rather than town by town: which commuter rail stop you can walk to, which elementary school an address feeds, whether a lot is on town sewer or Title 5 septic.

17 towns across MetroWest, Greater Boston and the South Shore. Each has its own guide, with named stations, named schools, and the specific thing a buyer should check there:

• Needham
• Newton
• Wellesley
• Weston
• Dover
• Lexington
• Concord
• Cambridge
• Somerville
• Waltham
• Medford
• Malden
• Quincy
• Braintree
• Brookline
• Belmont
• Winchester

He also works with families moving to Massachusetts from Connecticut, a move he has made himself, and offers the whole of the above in Vietnamese as well as English — an additional service, not a specialisation.

He writes the guides on this site himself. They cover the Massachusetts specifics that general national advice gets wrong — the statutes, the deadlines, and the local practice:

• What each contingency in a Massachusetts offer actually protects
• What the 2024 buyer-agency change means for buyers
• What it really costs to move into a Greater Boston rental
• In-law apartments and ADUs after the 2024 Affordable Homes Act

The full archive is on the blog, and the questions that come up most often are answered on the FAQ page.