I’m not a cranky person. I only get annoyed at things that are annoying.
Like, noisy neighbors.
If you live in a condo, you probably have an upstairs neighbor, a downstairs neighbor, and perhaps a neighbor or two on your own floor.
A potentially disastrous situation, all around.
We had a very noisy neighbor, downstairs, the last place [...]

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Here is an undated release from the architect of the new Lovejoy Wharf development, currently in the permitting process. No word on planned ground-breaking, yet.

Located on the waterfront where The Charles River meets Boston Harbor, the site is presently occupied by two brick structures. The proposed design involves the adaptive reuse of the existing [...]

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Three residential developments look ready to go, having broken ground over the past several days.
Russia Wharf: a series of three buildings, the tallest is 31-stories, with office space and a small number of residential condos - 200 units was the last count, plus a boutique hotel.
The Clarendon: a 32-story building, with 178 apartments and 107 [...]

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The following information is from the local MLS database, as of December 16, 2006, compared to (last week’s numbers).
Total # of condos for sale in the city of Boston: 2,189 (2,324)
Average # of days on market: 146 (143)
Median price of all condos for sale in the city of Boston: $399,000 ($395,000)
Average price of all condos [...]

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Suppose your mortgage loan payment is low enough, and you’re rich enough, that you have some extra cash on hand, every month?
Should you make extra payments on your loan? Or, should you invest that money, somewhere else?
Some people think you should pay off your mortgage loan as quickly as possible, the idea being, build [...]

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I was curious as to what the average seller is doing, in the city.
My guess was that sellers were being stubborn, that they weren’t lowering their prices. I assumed this was a big reason why buyers were pulling back.
I based this on the FACT that the number of sales has dropped 20-25%, while average [...]

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