Granite Group, Realtors

Thirty-eight years in one city is the headline here. BBB dates Granite Group Realtors to October 1987 and lists it as a general partnership working out of 353 Southern Artery in Quincy, with Jim McGue, Norman E. Tuttle Sr., and Richard Phinney named as its partners. Its Massachusetts real estate broker license is active. It is a small shop — BBB counts two employees — carrying an A+ grade from the bureau, though the company is not BBB accredited. It also appears on the Quincy Chamber of Commerce member list, and one of its partners has been named in local real-estate deal coverage on Reddit. The public trail of client opinion is short for a firm this old. Google carries 4.4 stars across seven ratings, with only a couple of written reviews behind that number. What is there leans positive, and the praise is aimed at the specific agent a client worked with rather than at the office as a whole — but seven ratings is too few to call a pattern. Two things to pin down before you sign. Ask which partner would actually run your listing or your search; in a two-person office, the individual matters more than the sign on the door. And read the A+ for what it is — BBB's letter grade, separate from accreditation, which the company does not hold. For a Quincy buyer or seller who wants someone who has watched this one market for decades, Granite Group is a reasonable call. Confirm the broker license yourself and ask for recent comparable sales; with a review trail this short, that legwork falls to you.