20 April 2009
In a continued effort to drive towards providing deeper and wider coverage of the Boston real estate market, the Boston Condo Blog will soon be rebranded and remissioned into the Boston Real Estate Observer. The goal of the Boston Real Estate Observer is to serve as a comprehensive and exclusive news source for Boston real [...]
18 April 2009
We’ve been receiving inquiries related to the latest sales at FP3. Over the past 6 months, according to LINK (which does a scan of the Registry of Deeds on a regular basis), the only units that have closed in the building have been the affordable housing units. Condo developers, by choice, opt-in to the affordable [...]
13 April 2009
With most of the heavy lifting of a 2007-2009 systems renovation project completed, Harbor Towers has become a haven for Boston Waterfront renters. Whether it was the cost of the special condo fee assessments, the state of the real estate market, or a mixture of both, there is no doubt that more condos are available [...]
08 April 2009
New Fannie Mae condo guidelines present a new significant hurdle to sales for Boston condo developers. In the face of these hurdles and with increasingly less patient lenders it is likely that the Boston area will see more condo auctions in 2009. The Wall Street Journal reports a summary of the changes: “The government-backed mortgage-finance company [...]
31 March 2009
Exterior work at the Boston W Hotel & Condos mixed use development has shown great advances over the past several months, with the steel structure being topped off quite quickly. The glass and steel structure inserts a very unique feel to the area at the corners of Stuart and Tremont Streets (100 Stuart Street Boston, [...]
25 March 2009
After two years of (re)construction, closings at the luxury Zero Marlborough building began in September of 2008. Anticipation grew as the art deco 12-unit building was transformed into one of the latest boutique concierge buildings in the Back Bay, sitting in an ideal location at the corner of Arlington and Marlborough Streets, adjacent to the [...]
