Quincy Center $1.4 Billion redevelopment
Quincy Center to be redeveloped
Boston Schools top the country’s priciest dorms
According to Kim Clark at US News & World Report, the rising cost of real estate and student demand for hotel-style goodies such as private bathrooms and suites have pushed the cost of dorms up crazily at many college campuses. At colleges in high-cost areas, even standard shared double dorm rooms now cost more than [...]
78 unit apartment building approval at Haymarket
Sources tell the Herald that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation will allow Eastat Realty Capital to build a $40 million dollar, 78-unit apartment building with a ground-floor produce market on a state-owned lot overlooking the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. Eastat’s five-story complex on a 29,400-square-foot parcel at the corner of Blackstone and North streets is [...]
“Surrogates” Boston’s New Movie Stars Bruce Willis as an FBI Agent
This past weekend, Bruce Willis’s new film Surrogates opened across the country, pulling in only $15 million. I had the pleasure of seeing this movie and I have to say, it was a great ride. Apart from the obvious plot holes, this movie was fun to watch, especially because they used Boston as the movie [...]
1330 Roof Deck and Pool is now Open
The 1330 Boylston is a new Luxury building located across from Fenway Park. It will be joining its neighbor across the street, The Trilogy, as one of the premier rental buildings in the city. All the units are new and the building is not even a year old yet. Besides the great location, garage parking, [...]
1850 Auction sells all 35 units
The auction was lots of fun to watch and i wasn’t surprised to see all 35 units sell. I suspected to see the units sell for about 75% of asking and i was almost right. The average went from 61% all the way up to almost 80% of asking with the majority of units selling [...]
$300k for a Back Bay parking spot
It was reported today that a parking space off 48 Comm Ave in the Back Bay sold for a new record $300.000.. The spot was listed for $250k with Debra Sordillo of CBRB but sold for 50 thousand more due to a bidding war. The funny thing is that only a few blocks away you [...]
Volvo Ocean Race leaves Boston Fan Pier
It is hard to believe that the Volvo ocean race at the Fan Pier ended a week ago. The boats have left and are on the 7th leg of the world tour heading to Ireland. Even now as the Puma Bar is being disassembled and stacked in a parking lot a quarter mile away. They [...]
Fan Pier hosts the Volvo Ocean Race
The Volvo race has been called the “Everest of Sailing” races. One of the most grulling and dangerous boat races in the world, and now it is here in South Boston at the new Fan Pier. Eight teams compete in a trans-oceanic race traveling around the world to 11 ports starting in Alicante, Spain then ending [...]
1st Quarter US Forclosure rate is up 24%
Nationwide, nearly 805,000 homes received at least one foreclosure-related notice from January through March, up from about 650,000 in the same time period a year earlier, according to RealtyTrac, Inc. There are a few reasons why this the numbers are up. For the past few months, many banks were in the process of negotiating with [...]
