The Lopes Group

Thirty-two Google ratings, every one of them five stars, and the same two first names keep surfacing in the write-ups: Melissa and Niamh. That consistency is the story of The Lopes Group, Melissa Dias Lopes's residential real estate team working out of 58 Atlantic Ave in Marblehead. The team says it operates under the J. Barrett & Company brokerage, with Lopes as Vice President and a Realtor®, handling residential, land, commercial and investment property sales. The written history is deep but front-loaded. Most of it lands in early 2022, when more than twenty clients wrote at once, and the accounts are specific enough to be worth reading: a buyer in a May 2022 review described a transaction spanning two neighboring homes where survey documents arrived upfront, and said he felt treated fairly even though Lopes represented the seller. A seller writing in February 2022 recalled being urged to drop the asking price after months of no activity, reluctantly agreeing, and then getting a matched buyer. Another described selling an oceanfront property in Nahant alongside an 80-year-old mother, crediting the team with keeping her comfortable through it. Investors show up as often as first-time buyers. Clients in 2022 wrote about being kept current on multifamily listings, about buying flips, and about hitting predefined budget and yield targets — an unusual mix for a team that also gets thanked repeatedly for hand-holding people through a first purchase. The most recent account, from December 2025, is a first-time buyer who described being walked through each step. Two things are worth raising. First, the written history is concentrated: the great bulk of it comes from a few weeks in early 2022, with only one account since, so there is little current commentary to judge how the team works today. Second, a seller's 2022 account of being persuaded to lower the asking price is a reminder to get the comparable sales and the pricing logic in writing before signing a listing agreement — that reviewer ended up satisfied, but the conversation is one to have upfront. Worth noting for anyone weighing an all-five-star profile: this one does not read manufactured. The write-ups vary widely in length and voice, name recurring team members (Niamh, an assistant named Kristen), describe distinct and checkable transactions, and several clients say they returned for multiple purchases over many years. If you are buying your first home on the North Shore, or working a multifamily portfolio, this is a team whose clients have written at length about responsiveness and about the referral network — contractors, inspectors — that came with the sale. Ask which brokerage entity you will be contracting with, and ask for recent closings rather than the 2022 ones.