The Agency Marblehead

The Agency Marblehead runs out of Suite 6 at 72 Front Street, in the middle of Marblehead's harbor-side downtown, and it is a franchise office — independently owned and operated under The Agency Real Estate Franchising, LLC, as the office states on its own site. The person to know is Michael Cannuscio, the managing partner, who the office describes as a broker, attorney and investor with more than two decades in the business. His Massachusetts real estate broker licence, number 142577-RE-AB, is active on the state registry — and it is the same number the office prints on its own team page, so the two line up cleanly. About a dozen agents work under that roof, each listed with their own salesperson or broker-associate number. Those individual numbers come from the office's own page and haven't been checked against the state; if you'll be working with a specific agent rather than with Cannuscio, look their number up before you sign anything. The office's stated focus is Marblehead itself, covering buying, selling, renting and home valuations. What's missing here is the part that usually matters most: there are no customer reviews on file from any platform. Judge this one on a conversation and on references you ask for directly, not on a rating.