Javier Palacios, Tremont Realty Group, LLC

Javier Palacios works out of Tremont Realty Group's office on Exchange Street in Lynn, and the clearest thing on file about him is the number on his Google profile: 4.9 stars across 18 ratings. Behind that average sits a small written history — seven reviews spread across two sources, dated 2022 and 2023. The people who took the time to write something came away positive, and the tone is consistent across both sources. It is still a short list, and nothing in it is recent. That is the honest limit here. A handful of warm write-ups from a few years back tells you clients were happy then; it says less about how he is working a deal today. Before you commit, ask for two or three references from the past year and for what he has actually closed lately in the neighborhoods you care about. If you are already in conversation with him, the early reviews are a fair sign to keep going. Just do the current-year homework yourself — recent closings, recent clients — rather than leaning on a star average built from 18 ratings.