This guy sounds nuts:
Maybe we should call him “Defaultâ€? Patrick.
After years of living high off the subprime-lending hog at Ameriquest, Gov. Deval Patrick now seeks his penance by punishing any business foolish enough to loan money to poor people.
n yet another arm-twisting meeting with the mortgage industry yesterday, Patrick reportedly proposed putting lenders on the […]
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Condo sales in downtown Boston have remained strong, contradicting what has been happening in other cities and towns in Massachusetts, and across the country.
According to the Globe:
Sales of luxury condominiums in Boston’s toniest neighborhoods surged 7.5 percent in the second quarter this year, with prices up as well, according to a report on the city’s […]
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Two owners have moved into the Penny Savings Bank, according to Boston Condo Guy.
Six of twenty-three units have sold.
Plans call for Citibank (natch) to move into one of two street-facing retail spaces.
The other will become a restaurant (natch), expected to be “Banq” (natch), “offering French cuisine with an Asian flare”.
Source: Penny Savings Bank Opens to […]
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Okay, I don’t much care for how they came out, but if you don’t know a lot about the area where the Columbus Center project will be built (ha ha, as if!), here are some videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDnJtsOylWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCZOS6txRJc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0wplXW_qU0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO1aSN099ls
If you shrink down the videos, they look better (there’s a control on the YouTube video screen).
Next up: I cook […]
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Grouchy McGrouchsters, indeed.
According to the Globe:
Hoping to harness the simmering outrage over the state’s affordable housing law, a group of activists opposed to the law has launched the first-ever statewide effort to repeal it.
The group is led by a community activist by the name of John Belskis.
“It’s a developers’ welfare program that doesn’t really create […]
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I can’t even pretend to keep my patience about this.
According to the Globe:
The Patrick administration is considering a plan that would make mortgage lenders pay moving expenses as well as the first and last months’ rent of homeowners who lose their homes to foreclosure.
The proposal is part of foreclosure prevention initiative administration officials will present […]
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Not much to add to this, but in case you missed it, the current co-owners of the development known as NorthPoint have put their land up for sale.
Interesting information buried in the last paragraph of the Globe story:
Marketing on the two condo buildings — dubbed Sierra and Tango — is continuing. About 100 of 298 […]
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