The best place to live in Boston is in Dorchester
If you are a first-time homebuyer, the best place to live is in Dorchester.  It has a great quality of life, it’s convenient to public transportation and major highways, it’s close to downtown, and, most importantly, housing prices are low.
Right now, there are 78 condos for [...]

154 Attorney Street, New York, NY
The above is a wonderful building currently under construction on the lower East Side of Manhattan.  Here are the details, via Curbed, in turn via Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Rob Gross, who’s handling the marketing (I edited the original comments):
32 Unit Condo building with an attendant
Designed by Kutnicki/Bernstein Architects
Beautiful finishes and [...]

The Boston Globe has an article in this Sunday’s business section about why long-term interest rates have stayed low for so long.  The article is written by Charles Stein.
His theories on why long-term interest rates have stayed low:
1) Influx of foreign money.  Most importantly: The Chinese government keeps buying US government bonds.  As long as [...]

In this week’s Boston Homes, there is a story about Lincoln Plaza a development under construction in the Financial District.  The developer is Cresset Development, LLC.
Buried in the story is the interesting bit of news that Cresset is also going to be putting up 86 units in the South End..
UPDATE, June 6, 2005 - the [...]

Boston Business Journal

Cathartes Investments will build a four-story, 146-unit condominium on the Charlestown-Somerville border. The project will include a five-story parking garage for 190 vehicles.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority approved the project May 19. Construction is expected to begin in December, and the project is expected to be completed in 18 months.
City Lofts of Charlestown, as [...]

Below is a report of sales and listing activity for the past week.
Information is derived from LINK, the online database that is used by most Boston real estate agents.
New listings: 296
Back on market (listings that went under agreement but deals fell through): 11
Price changes (almost always downward, but some go up): 147
Under agreements: 150
Off market [...]