So, how do you increase the value of your home?
Get your property to be featured on PBS’ “This Old House”.
How much is the “This Old House factor”?
Boston magazine covered it, in this month’s issue:

The wildly popular WGBH-produced program—currently working on a house in East Boston—has been fixing up places around the Hub for nearly 30 [...]

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A hot topic over the past several years is whether or not Boston is losing its young urban professionals, or “Yurbies”, as they’re commonly called. More importantly, the question is, why? (Readers of this blog will remember I answered this question, by stating, “Because that’s what young people do … they move.”)
Data supporting [...]

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My new hobby is pushing the city of Boston to implement “congestion pricing” - charging drivers to come into a city all the time or during specific times, to reduce traffic congestion and encourage the use of public transportation.
The City of London was the first major city to implement it (oh, alright, it was somewhere [...]

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Recently, Harris Interactive had an online poll “Most Prestigious Occupationsâ€? which places real estate agents at the bottom of the list.
The National Association of Realtors© countered that “agents” was too broad a term; if Harris had substituted “Realtor©”, the results would have been different.
In NAR’s opinion, Realtor® is to Real Estate Agent as Mercedes® is [...]

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Apparently, the Chinese government isn’t pleased with our ever-increasing national debt.
[S]tocks were down sharply Monday largely because of a slump in the dollar …
The big news Friday was not how much shoppers were spending at stores, but that China — a huge backer of U.S. debt — may cut back on purchases of U.S. Treasury [...]

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You know, the first time I saw the Alexandra Hotel, it must have been around 1986, or so.
It was a complete dump, even then.
Now, 20 years later, it still stands, a wreck.
The city of Boston has attempted to get the owner to either fix it up or sell it, with little success.
Things looked better when [...]

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