Central Real Estate

Central Real Estate works out of 339 Hancock Street in North Quincy, handling the buying, selling, and renting side of the local housing market. The firm says it has been working in Massachusetts since 1986 — roughly four decades by its own count. Its Massachusetts real estate broker license is active. That is the piece a client can lean on: the state confirms the brokerage is licensed to represent buyers, sellers, and renters. Public reception is harder on them. On Google the firm sits at 2 stars across 12 ratings, and the written complaints center on communication — unreturned messages and follow-through on scheduling a showing. The written history here is shallow, a couple of reviews spread across 2022 to 2024, so one unhappy client moves the average a long way and one happy one moves it back. If you call them, settle responsiveness up front: who your agent is, how they prefer to be reached, and how fast they come back on a showing request. That is exactly where the existing complaints land, and it is easy to test before you sign anything.