The Boston Redevelopment Authority is seeking proposals to turn a harborside pavilion into a café or restaurant. The BRA has hired Cambridge architects HMFH Architects Inc. to design preliminary plans to enclose the 2,900 SF pavilion at Long Wharf and maximize its harbor views …
According to a review of the building by HMFH, the pavilion […]

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Here’s some news for you.
Richard Sommer, X-HomeGain.com CEO elected as New Chief Executive Officer for ZipRealty
condoDomain.com Founder, Anthony Longo, has formed a powerful group of Internet marketers & creative directors to open VIVE+, a creative deployment firm catering to Internet buyers of luxury urban real estate.
… Hometrader.tv has announced the re-launch of its new […]

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From today’s Washington Post:

To ease buyers’ worries about declining prices, Mid-Atlantic Builders will adjust its sales contract if the price it is charging for one of its houses falls from the time a customer signs an agreement to 45 days before settlement. So, the thinking goes, jittery buyers shelling out $500,000 to more than $1 […]

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Scott Van Voorhis is out today, with what he considers a breaking story.
The monthly home sales reports put out by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors for years have been the main indicator of the health of the Bay State’s real estate market.
And as recently as last fall, the trade group was crowing about near-record sales.
However, […]

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So, last night was the premiere episode of Bravo’s new reality-TV show (sic), Million Dollar Listing.
I haven’t watched the episode yet, but I hear it got good.
Yes, Brokers Are the Incompetent Skeezebuckets You Always Suspected They Were
Million Dollar Listing started slow. But then conflict kicked in and it became a hoot. It’s not about the […]

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You know the Columbus Center development, proposed for the corner of Clarendon Street and Columbus Avenue, where the South End meets the Back Bay, right?

Yeah, that’s the place.
So, earlier this week, the Globe reported that the developer’s banks said they were concerned whether there was enough money on hand to finance the project, and that […]

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You have to agree, finding an apartment can be a miserable experience. You call around to find an agency, or you spend all day, and all of the night, looking online at craigslist.
Ugh.
Of course, rental agents think it’s a miserable experience, too.
Really, though, can we have any sympathy for them?
No, especially when […]

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So, in order to buy a home over the past couple of years, more and more people have turned to “exotic” loans. You know, interest only loans, and option ARMs.
Option ARMs are where buyers have a choice of payments to make on their mortgage loans. Borrowers can pay the typical […]

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According to Kiplinger’s, sellers are in rough waters, right now.
Their best example? The poor sap in this story who couldn’t sell his Boston condo, for three and a half months (can you imagine it???), this past year.
Passengers on the Poseidon aren’t the only people in distress this summer. Condo owners, who had been cruising […]

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Fannie Mae’s board of economists have come out with a new prediction on the direction of housing prices and interest rates, over the coming months.
Hey, their predictions are as good as anyone else’s, right
What do they foresee?
Well, first, they say that, over the past 12 months, housing affordability has improved.
“During this period, the […]

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