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Tom Brady lives in the Back Bay, okay?

Without a doubt, the #1 search on my site this week has been “Tom Brady” … People want to know where he lives. Which kind of freaks me out. If you MUST know the details, I suggest you head over to the Suffolk Deeds website, and search there. He...

Church owners are sitting on gold

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The Archdiocese of Boston just made a bad business deal, which I’m sure you all have heard about. Michael Indresano bought the shuttered, century-old St. Mary Star of the Sea church and its rectory and parish hall in East Boston from the archdiocese on Nov. 16...

Chelsea suffers from housing slowdown

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Ouch. Here’s the problem. When the housing market slows down, and there are less buyers than before, those neighborhoods that are “marginal” suffer the most. “Prime” properties continue to be snatched up, although they may suffer price...

In Brief: real estate stories in the news

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They’re about to kick me out of this rat-infested coffee shop because I’ve spent six hours doing nothing but typing and buying one 12-oz cup of coffee, so here’s some other stories I read over the past couple of days. Foreclosures Expected to...

End of the line for housing decline?

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Much as some experts would disagree, there is a line of thought that we have seen the worst of the housing market slump. Price drops and declining sales in the Massachusetts housing market moderated in October, two housing reports showed yesterday, suggesting that the...

The state of the Boston real estate market

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Two articles of interest in the Globe, over the past couple of days. First up, Kimberly Blanton did a question & answer with Boston.com readers. Seems like it was a good exchange of ideas. Not surprisingly, the questions followed the line of “how low will...