You can’t stop a rumor, as they always say.
From last week’s South End News:
Though the 26-unit condo development in the old Area D4 police station on Warren Avenue and Berkeley Street, called YooD4, is about five to six months behind schedule, work is continuing and the project should be completed by late winter or early [...]

Have you heard of Keith Town?

The town is full of single-family homes, each around 1,000 square feet, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, complete with patio and a driveway.
The homes can be built on pieces of land as small as 2000 square feet.
More photos: Keith Town

Oomph. Lots of stories to post today. I’ll have to take a break after this, and post the rest tomorrow.
Never go on vacation!
PIMCO bond giant founder Bill Gross writes a monthly Investment Outlook column, and lately, at least, he discusses the real estate market, or, more accurately, the bond market, which affects the [...]

According to CNN/Money, although the average family size has contracted by 20% since 1970, the average home size has increased by 50%.
What’s gotten bigger? Kitchens. Bedrooms. Bathrooms.
The average new home had around 1,660 square feet, in 1973; the average new home today has over 2,400 square feet.
You know, my family did [...]

From The Inside Track, in the Boston Herald, late last week (a very trusted source!):
Now, don’t say you read it here, but the big buzz on Beacon Street is that New England Patriots QB/QT Tom Brady is spending something in the neighborhood of $6.7 million for a townhouse that’s ever-so-close to his current Commonwealth Avenue [...]

From The Inside Track, in the Boston Herald early last week:
Don’t breathe a word of this. Because nobody’s supposed to know. But word outta the Back Bay is that the employees of the Ritz-Carlton have been told that the grand dame on Arlington Street may soon be under new management.
We hear the hotel’s owners, Millennium [...]