The questions people actually ask.

Because most of these owners have not told anyone they're selling. Their tenants don't know, their neighbors don't know, and in some cases their family doesn't know. An address is all it takes for that to stop being true.

So the public page shows the street and the neighborhood, not the house number or the unit. That isn't a UI choice we could reverse with a login: the exact address is stripped out when the page is built, so it isn't sitting in the file waiting to be found by someone who reads the source or steals a cookie.

You ask, and you sign a short confidentiality acknowledgment for that specific property. One page, per building, not a blanket agreement covering everything on the site.

We know a registration form isn't an NDA and we don't pretend otherwise. Registering gets you the numbers. The address is the step after that, because it's the piece that can actually cost a seller something if it travels.

Real, and they come from one place: we manage roughly 1,500 units and more than 60 condo associations across Greater Boston. When an owner decides it's time, we usually hear before a broker does.

The honest consequence is that this page is sometimes short. Off-market flow is lumpy — we would rather show you three buildings that exist than pad the page with listings you could already find on the MLS.

Nobody, and you should read every number on this site with that in mind. The figures come from the seller or from owner-provided records. We haven't audited them and we don't warrant them.

What we do add is the part most listings leave out: we underwrite on actual rents and actual expenses rather than a pro forma, and we name the problem with each building in writing. If a property only works if you raise every rent to market on day one, we say that on the card.

None of that replaces your own due diligence. It's a starting point that's honest about being a starting point.

It's the right question, and the honest answer is that off-market cuts both ways. An open listing gives you price discovery — five offers tell you what the market thinks a building is worth. Buying off-market means you don't get that signal for free.

What you get instead is time, no bidding war, no five-day offer deadline, and a seller who is talking to you rather than to twelve people. Those are worth real money on the right building, and nothing on the wrong one.

We'll tell you what we know about comparable trades. You should still form your own view, and if a property would clearly do better on the open market, we'd rather say so than sell you something you resent in a year.

Nothing. There's no broker agreement, no exclusivity, no fee, and no obligation to look at anything we send.

The one real obligation is confidentiality: what you unlock here isn't yours to forward, post, or use to go around us to a seller. That's set out in the terms, and it's the reason sellers are willing to be on the site at all.

The numbers unlock immediately — you don't wait for anyone to approve you.

Then we ask what you actually buy: price range, property type, neighborhoods, how you're financing. That's not a qualification test. It's so we can stop sending you deals you'd never want, which is the fastest way for a list like this to become noise.

After that you hear from us when something matches. If we have nothing that fits you, you don't hear from us, and that's the system working.

The buy-box questions exist specifically so we can send you less, not more. Someone looking for three-families in Dorchester under $2M should not be getting a mixed-use building in Cambridge.

You can leave at any time — reply STOP to any text, use the unsubscribe link in any email, or email us and we'll delete the record. The privacy policy sets out exactly what we hold and what we do with it. We don't sell your information to anyone.

Registering is free, and in a typical Massachusetts sale the seller pays the brokerage commission, so a buyer here generally isn't paying us a fee.

If a specific property is structured differently, you'll know in writing before you make an offer — not after. Ask us directly on any building and you'll get a direct answer.

There's a real overlap and we'd rather you hear it from us than work it out later. Three companies share common ownership: Profitable Properties Boston is the brokerage, Green Ocean Property Management manages buildings, and Pro Services Boston is the maintenance and licensed general contracting arm.

So on any building you buy here, there can be more than one way for the ownership behind this site to earn — a commission, and potentially a management fee or construction revenue afterwards. You should assume we have an incentive for a deal to happen.

What we do about it: the figures are labelled as unverified because they are, the catch on each building is stated in writing, and neither management nor construction is ever a condition of buying. The full version is the affiliated business disclosure, and it's worth the two minutes.

No, and it isn't a condition of seeing a deal, making an offer, or closing one.

It's offered because most buyers here already own in Boston and don't want another building to self-manage. Plenty of people buy here and manage it themselves or use someone else. That's a normal outcome, not an awkward one.

Yes. Tell us when you register or as soon as you're interested in a specific building, and we'll work with them from the start rather than sorting it out mid-negotiation.

Not from us, and not until you decide. No sign goes up, nothing hits the MLS or Zillow, there's no lockbox and no open house with strangers walking through on a Sunday.

When a serious buyer needs to see the building, it's scheduled with you, at a time you agree to, with proper notice to the residents. Most owners' real fear here isn't the price — it's their best tenant handing in notice because they heard a rumour. That's the thing this format is designed to avoid.

Not to have the conversation, and not to get a number. Tell us about the building and we'll come back with what we think it's worth and who on our list would want it.

If you decide to go ahead, there's paperwork — we're a licensed brokerage, not a handshake. But you're not signing an exclusivity just to find out what your building is worth.

Then we'll tell you that, and we'd rather tell you before you're committed than after.

Off-market is the right answer when privacy, speed, or certainty matter more than squeezing the last few percent — a tenanted building you don't want disrupted, an estate that needs to be settled, a partner who wants out quietly. It's the wrong answer for a vacant, renovated, photogenic property that five buyers would fight over. Those belong on the open market and we'll say so.

Mostly Greater Boston two- to four-families and small apartment buildings, with condos, mixed-use and the occasional development site. Price bands run from under $1M to over $5M, and the middle of the list sits well inside that range.

You pick your bands when you register, so a $5M buyer and a $700k buyer don't get each other's mail.

Yes, and a good share of the list isn't local. What we'd say honestly is that Boston's operating rules punish absentee guesswork more than most markets — deposit handling, lead paint, deleading, and the local inspection regime all have real teeth.

If you're buying from outside Massachusetts, use a Massachusetts real estate attorney. Everyone who does this well here already does.

Possibly, but go in with your eyes open. Boston's first rung is expensive, and the liabilities that transfer at closing are the part that surprises first-time buyers — not the roof.

Start with the underwriting checklist. It's free, it takes ten minutes, and it lists nine things that follow the building to you at closing and don't appear anywhere on a profit-and-loss statement. If that list doesn't scare you off, you're probably ready.