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Archive for September, 2006


The most logical and well-thought-out way to buy your next vacation property

This is an awesome idea! I can’t quite figure out a way to use it to get me that penthouse apartment in Manhattan I’ve been hoping to buy, but there must be a way.
When Julie Hampton was a graduate student, she decided that she wanted to buy a small house in a remote Italian […]

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Filene’s building to be replaced with residential and office space

The Boston skyline is going to get busy.
Fresh off the closing of landmark The Littlest Bar in preparation for a high-rise condo tower at 45 Province Street, Vornado Trust and John B Hyne III’s Gale International announced yesterday that they are planning on buildng a 38-story multi-use tower, made up of 500,000 square feet of […]

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Avenir Boston offers money-back guarantee - or something similar

The condoDomain blog, which is usually on top of things, comes through again with an exclusive. (This reads like a press release, but I can’t find the source document, anywhere.)
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR FABULOUS FALL PROMOTION BEING OFFERED FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY. Your pre-construction price will hold its value, call or visit now […]

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Sellers may have unrealistic expectations

Despite the well-documented pullback in the real estate market, consumers’ real estate appreciation expectations may still be too optimistic, according to the Second Annual RBC Capital Markets Consumer Survey. Nearly half of all homeowners still expect at least 5 per cent annual increases in their home values over the next few years, but this is […]

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Final rental post of the day: how to welsh on your lease

(”Welshing” is actually a derogatory term, did you know that? Seems obvious, if you think about it. However, does anyone even KNOW someone who’s Welsh? When did they start welshing on people?) (Dictionary.com allows the spelling two ways - Welch or Welsh.)
Question: Recently my mother signed a lease and paid a deposit […]

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Historic Longwood Towers just two years away from opening

Longwood Towers is being converted into 277 condo units, priced between $400,000 and $2 million.
Radco Cos., the company which recently completed construction of downtown’s luxury Grandview development, bought the complex for $110 million, last year.

Plans for the property also include creating a golf driving range on the 4.5 -acre site and turning the buildings’ basements […]

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Rent versus buy

Two moderately helpful articles on the renting vs. buying debate (well, debate is too strong a word).
For some, renting is better than buying - by The Associated Press
There’s no question that owning a home is a desirable goal, and low interest rates in recent years have made it possible for millions of Americans to buy […]

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Renters do the darndest things …

Brian Carter, New York’s favorite rental agent, is at it again.
This time he meets the client from hell. The client from hell is not an unreasonable client. He’s an ambivalent one.
Bob needed an apartment and after only an hour of showing him around, I realized his tragic flaw: Bob couldn’t make a decision […]

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Google Transit - good, I guess?

Technology in search of an idea, or what?
Google Transit: Create your own transit trip, complete with itineraries and maps.
Like, how do I get from 3045 Star St, Tampa, Fl. 33605 to 201 E. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, Fl., using public transportation?
Here’s how.
Sorry, folks, Boston’s public transit system is not active, yet.
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My blog, myself

I am now writing blog entries for three websites: The Boston Real Estate blog, for condoDomain, and for Blue Trim.
In addition, you can find a syndicate of my entries at The Money Blogs, a website “about money”, they say.
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