If you want to read a good analysis of what’s going on in the Massachusetts home & condo sales market, I can highly recommend the Massachusetts Association of Realtors’ website.
They collect monthly sales data and compare it to previous months’ and years’ results.
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They just recently tore down the old Gaiety Theater (which was news to me, but I haven’t been down in Chinatown for awhile). Now, don’t be thinking you might have gone to the movies there, recently - it was nothing but a old concrete building, mostly boarded up, and in serious disrepair, for years. Some […]
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Okay, this is kind of weird.
Apparently, someone has outfitted their entire apartment with furniture made of FEDEX shipping boxes (and a good amount of packing tape).
And, now they’re selling the furniture to other people (can I get the FEDEX furniture shipped UPS, is the obvious question).
He will make you a couch, a chair, a bed, […]
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The theater district is seeing new life. Actually, the area is poorly defined; the theater district is partly Midtown, partly Chinatown, and partly Downtown Crossing (also known as the Ladder District, to some).
The Herald has an interesting story about one of the old theaters in the area. The Bijou Theater was built and managed by […]
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The City of Boston is a huge landowner. Most of the surplus land and buildings were foreclosed on because the owners didn’t pay their taxes.
These properties could easily be sold off and used to build new housing for people of all incomes.
The City of New York has done this.
Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times
During the 1970s […]
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The city offers first-time homebuyers a great "Homebuying 101" class, covering everything from mortgages, budgeting, shopping for a home, and the benefits of using an attorney, etc.
The class is ten hours long, and is held in different neighborhoods, every couple of months.
City of Boston - Homebuying 101
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Bankrate.com has a great little article about when not to buy a house.
Reasons not to buy:
Job shaky? Don’t buy.Into investing? Don’t buy.Dreams too big for budget? Don’t buy.Damaged credit? Don’t buy.
By Michael D Larson, Bankrate.com
You shouldn’t buy a house.
Believe it or not, that’s good advice for some people, no matter what the mortgage lender says. […]
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Data showing that the percentage of Americans owning their own homes has increased each year, at least since 1995.
HOMEOWNERSHIP RATES, 1995 TO 2004
United States
1995 65.81996 66.71997 67.01998 67.51999 68.1
2000 68.52001 69.12002 69.3
2003 69.4
2004 70.0
Source: Public Policy Institute of California, by way of the San Francisco Chronicle
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