UNIVERSITY REAL ESTATE, HARVARD SQUARE handles a large volume of high-quality residential sales, in Cambridge and all over Greater Boston. Its trademarks include "Houses Near Harvard", Choice Cambridge Condominiums" and “greaterbostonmls.com”  It is a specialized professional practice, restricted to sales and appraisals only. The company has no property-management or insurance distractions and handles very few rentals.

Extensive homefinding search and buyer analysis capabilities are on the firm's many web websites: www.havardyard.com is one address.

FRED MEYER founded the company in 1963. He is sometimes called the "dean" of Boston real estate agents, with probably the most years of real estate experience in the area. He holds the professional designations of GRI (Graduate, Realtors Institute) from the MA. Association of Realtors, and CRB (Certified Real Estate Brokerage Manager) and CRS (Certified Residential Specialist) from the Realtors National Marketing Institute. The latter two designations are held by only a tiny portion of all the Realtors in America.

Back in 1981, he was elected the first president of the new Cambridge Council of Realtors. Then in 1990, he was voted "Realtor of the Year" for the entire Greater Boston Real Estate Board. In 1991, he was elected President of the Greater Boston Association of Realtors, serving as leader of the 4,000 residential Realtors in the 54 cities and towns of Greater Boston.

In 2000, he was elected President of the 15,600-member Massachusetts Association of Realtors, which had a $2.5 million budget. For 2002 & 2003, he was elected a Director of the 1,000,000-member National Association of Realtors. Since 2004, he has been president of Real Estate Agents for Real Agency, a nonprofit broker education organization. He has been elected a director of the Multiple Listing Service, MLS-PIN, for 2010-2011.

Fred has been a frequent contributor to Banker and Tradesman, the established Massachusetts real estate weekly newspaper, and to Inman News, the national real estate website. He is called upon regularly for interviews by reporters. He was a longtime chair of the Boston's Board's Standard Forms Committee, overseeing the language in the standard printed forms used for most offers and purchase & sale agreements.

Unlike most Realtors, Mr. Meyer also has a state license as a Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser (Mass. license #637). Over the years, he has taken many intensive appraisal courses with Bentley College, the Appraisal Institute, and the MA. Board of Real Estate Appraisers.

The firm is a member of the Realty Guild, an organization of the most active independent real-estate offices in 80 Massachusetts cities and towns, with over 800 real estate licensees and $4.5 billion in annual home sales. He is a 1959 graduate of Yale University, and also attended Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School.

Since 1972, he and his family have lived in their single-family house at 83 Hammond St., a block from Harvard's graduate-school campus, and also, since 1981, their house at Rock Harbor, Orleans, Cape Cod.