New development of the day is known as XII Stoneholm.
This is a conversion from apartments to condos.  121 condos, in fact.
Location is just a block off Massachusetts Avenue, near Berklee School of Music and Northeastern University.
If you were interested in 75 Burbank, you might want to take a look at XII Stoneholm.
From the listing agent:

Building […]

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Scott Van Voorhis of The Boston Herald has a column out today about the Columbus Center development.  This is the massive project planned for the area between the South End and Back Bay, over the Mass Turnpike.
The real estate sales market has cooled this fall, and Mr. Van Voorhis suggests that the developer, Arthur Winn, […]

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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: 50Back on market (listings that went under agreement but deals fell through): 8
Price changes (almost always downward, but some go up): 55Under agreements: 60Off […]

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Nascent Boston real estate blog "Boston-Real-Estate-Watch" reports:
The Boston Foundation website www.tbf.org reported on how the college community is confronting the vexing problem of student housing. It’s findings show from 1990 - 2002 Boston colleges and universities added 16,324 new student beds, the equivalent of 2,600 apartments in the Boston area. As of 2004 there were […]

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According to Scott Van Voorhis, as reported in today’s Boston Herald, there are developments a-plenty in the works for the area around North Station.

Delaware North, owner of both the Garden and the Boston Bruins, is seeking a building permit for a 36-story condo tower that would rise next door to the sports arena and the […]

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Another profile piece on developer Steven B Samuels, in today’s Boston Globe.  (Do you think he was called Sam Stevens a lot, as a kid?)
He is the developer behind the Trilogy apartments (no, not Trilogy condos, they’re all apartments, all 580 of them, all 17 stories of them).  He is also building a massive residential, […]

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Zany idea du jour, as curbed.com calls it, comes from Paul Steely White, Executive Director of some organization called Transportation Alternatives.
First, he throws out some interesting statistics - stats about New York City’s driving habits, but relevant to Boston.  For example, according to him, 86% of Manhattan-bound commuters don’t drive into the city by private […]

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Beacon Hill, South End condos see price drop

The Herald’s Jay Fitzgerald has the statistics on this quarter’s condo sales - and the data ain’t good, at least for sellers.  Well, there is some good news for them - while the number of sales are down, sales prices have stayed the same - or even gone […]

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