Lamacchia Realty - Braintree, MA

Five stars across 393 Google ratings is a hard number to walk past, and that is where Lamacchia Realty's Braintree office starts. It sits at 222 Forbes Road, just off the Route 3 interchange, and the company describes it as one of its residential brokerage offices, operating under Lamacchia Realty, Inc. On its own site, the agents are listed with the REALTOR designation, one of them with the Military Relocation Professional credential, and the day-to-day staff is named as a regional sales manager, an office manager and an administrative assistant. The history behind that Google number runs deep: 155 reviews spanning 2021 to 2026 across four separate sources, and the shape of it barely wavers. What people write about, though, is rarely the office. It is almost always a named agent, and the same themes cycle through: quick replies, plain-English explanations of a confusing step, and patience with buyers who had never done this before. Single-family homes, condominiums and multi-family listings are all in the mix, and the buy side dominates the commentary. One dissenting voice cuts against that run. A seller disputed how their listing contract and price were handled, describing an agreement they believed was signed being treated otherwise and a lower price being proposed without their sign-off. It is a single complaint against a long, positive history, but it lands on the part of the job with the least margin for confusion, so it is worth carrying into a first conversation. The other thing worth knowing is structural rather than critical. Because the praise here attaches to individuals, a five-star office page is not a promise about whichever agent picks up the phone. Ask which agent you would actually work with, and look at what people have said about that person specifically. For a South Shore buyer or seller who wants a large brokerage with a staffed local office and a bench of agents to choose from, this is a reasonable call, and the volume of positive history behind it is real. Before you sign, pin down your agent by name, get the listing agreement and commission in writing, and confirm the agreement says no price change happens without your signature.