It’s aggravating to hear when developers either delay or out-right cancel their projects.
Unfortunately, it looks as though two North Station developments might end up that way.
Avenir Boston, as most people know by now, is “re-valuating” their sales strategy. The project may become rentals, instead. (My advice? Pay your monthly mortgage on the land, [...]

The East Boston waterfront, with great views of downtown Boston, and just minutes away from the rest of the city, by car, MBTA, and boat (?), is going to see great changes, in the near future.
East Pier Boston is about to begin construction (you can see the banner announcing the project, off in the distance, [...]

Third quarter sales are down in the city, apparently, according to a story in yesterday’s Globe.
The data they use, from LINK, is accurate, to a point, but I recommend buyers and sellers rely solely on numbers put out by the Warren Group (including my own numbers!).
While the National Association of Realtors (and the Massachusetts [...]

The following information is from the local MLS database, as of October 28, 2006, compared to (last week’s numbers).
Total # of condos for sale in the city of Boston: 2,826 (2,846)
Average # of days on market: 132 (129)
Median price of all condos for sale in the city of Boston: $392,700 ($389,900)
Average price of all condos [...]

Did you get the feeling this week that maybe the press had changed the story from “housing market in free-fall” to “housing market stabilizes, good times on tap!”?
I did.
Neither is accurate, in my opinion.
I feel as though prices in Boston may have bottomed out, and that sales volume will remain at its current pace, for [...]

Makes sense, right?
Gonna build a tower out of character with the rest of Boston?
Bring in an architect from out of town.
Deadlines for propsosals were the end of this month, I believe.
Local architects fear that out-of-town rivals have the inside track to design the proposed tower that would be the city’s architectural statement of the 21st [...]