Data just released by LINK suggests that the downtown real estate market has cooled, when compared to last year, at least. By Kimberly Blanton, The Boston Globe Boston’s condominium market, which posted record sales in 2004, has slowed dramatically this year, according to a newly published report. During the first nine months of 2005, sales [...]

An article that may help prospective sellers decide whether or not to use a real estate agent. By Scott Wenger, New York Daily News Here’s the ultimate do-it-yourself home project: Sell it yourself. Many think that’s a job best left to the experts. But when it’s time to sell your home, is turning to a [...]

Again, the area around Fenway Park seems poise for great things, including this new project, adding 215 units of desperately needed housing to the neighborhood.  This block is next to the Domino’s Pizza on one side, and Burger King on the other, I believe. Boston Business Journal The Boston Redevelopment Authority board of directors approved [...]

It looks as though the Fenway / Kenmore area is the next hot neighborhood, if recent announcements are any indication. The latest project has been floated by Children’s Hospital to build a mixed-use housing and parking project on land they currently own in the Fenway. The article doesn’t discuss the specific location of the land, [...]

Below is a report of sales and listing activity for the past week. Information is derived from LINK, the online database that is used by most Boston real estate agents. New listings: 201 Back on market (listings that went under agreement but deals fell through): 37 Price changes (almost always downward, but some go up): [...]

The LINK listing service hosted a morning presentation by John Rosenthal, the man behind the company behind the massive development proposed over the Mass Pike, just outside Kenmore Square. I am a big fan of new housing projects, because I think the number one way to reduce the cost of housing is to increase supply. [...]

The Greater Boston Housing Report Card (warning, PDF file), put out by The Boston Foundation, would have you believe that there are people spending 80% (or more) of their income on rent.  The report’s authors misuse data to draw inaccurate conclusions.  (I’m definitely having trouble using smart-sounding words in these entries, I know.) From the [...]

I have been reading the Greater Boston Housing Report Card (warning, PDF file), released earlier this year by The Boston Foundation. The report includes a bunch of data about renters and homeowners in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.  I am finding fault with their conclusions, however. First, they don’t do a very good job of [...]

Last month, The Boston Foundation released its 2004 Greater Boston Housing Report Card.  It is a very interesting report on the state of the housing market in Boston and the greater Boston metropolitan area. I question the sources of the data they use, but that’ll be a post for another day. No matter how you [...]

I now have competition in the Boston real estate blog world. John Ford of Ford Realty just recently began his own blog. I would say, based on the first three-four entries, that Mr. Ford comes down strongly on the "housing-bubble" side of the real estate market.  Readers of my blog would conclude, I think, that [...]