Everyone and his uncle thinks he knows what’s going on with the real estate market. At least half of those people are wrong. My best guess is that, over the coming year, or years, home prices will fall, as more sellers race after fewer buyers. At the same time,...
Apparently, we’re going to be entering a world-wide recession of epic proportions, in 2007. Well, at least one economist thinks so. One economist, writing in a blog. Very little credibility, right? “This is the biggest housing slump in the last four or...
I don’t know how I feel about this. Anyone else? David Phillips is a local artist who was commissioned by Fidelity to design a sculpture park near Fidelity Investments’ South Boston campus. About a year after he completed work on the project, Fidelity...
For years, real-estate brokers and home builders promised that the soaring property market eventually would glide to a soft landing … It isn’t working out that way … Joan Guth is one homeowner who was taken by surprise … Last September, she put...
When I moved into this neighborhood, I fell in love right away. Not with the actual neighborhood, but with its potential: It’s affordable, there are nice row houses all around just waiting to be filled up by my friends, there’s lot of open space to be...
According to the Globe: This fall, for the first time, Northeastern University will offer the perk to its president with an acquisition of a five-story Beacon Hill townhouse. The purchase, expected to be finalized in September, is Northeastern’s latest effort to...