This is an awesome idea! I can’t quite figure out a way to use it to get me that penthouse apartment in Manhattan I’ve been hoping to buy, but there must be a way.
When Julie Hampton was a graduate student, she decided that she wanted to buy a small house in a remote Italian [...]

The Boston skyline is going to get busy.
Fresh off the closing of landmark The Littlest Bar in preparation for a high-rise condo tower at 45 Province Street, Vornado Trust and John B Hyne III’s Gale International announced yesterday that they are planning on buildng a 38-story multi-use tower, made up of 500,000 square feet of [...]

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Despite the well-documented pullback in the real estate market, consumers’ real estate appreciation expectations may still be too optimistic, according to the Second Annual RBC Capital Markets Consumer Survey. Nearly half of all homeowners still expect at least 5 per cent annual increases in their home values over the next few years, but this is [...]

(“Welshing” is actually a derogatory term, did you know that? Seems obvious, if you think about it. When did they start welshing on people?)
Question: Recently my mother signed a lease and paid a deposit for an apartment and decided it was not the right choice for her. She contacted the landlord within two days [...]

Longwood Towers is being converted into 277 condo units, priced between $400,000 and $2 million.
Radco Cos., the company which recently completed construction of downtown’s luxury Grandview development, bought the complex for $110 million, last year.

Plans for the property also include creating a golf driving range on the 4.5 -acre site and turning the buildings’ basements [...]

Two moderately helpful articles on the renting vs. buying debate (well, debate is too strong a word).
For some, renting is better than buying – by The Associated Press
There’s no question that owning a home is a desirable goal, and low interest rates in recent years have made it possible for millions of Americans to buy [...]

Brian Carter, New York’s favorite rental agent, is at it again.
This time he meets the client from hell. The client from hell is not an unreasonable client. He’s an ambivalent one.
Bob needed an apartment and after only an hour of showing him around, I realized his tragic flaw: Bob couldn’t make a decision [...]

Technology in search of an idea, or what?
Google Transit: Create your own transit trip, complete with itineraries and maps.
Like, how do I get from 3045 Star St, Tampa, Fl. 33605 to 201 E. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, Fl., using public transportation?
Ta-da.
Sorry, folks, Boston’s public transit system is not active, yet.

D4, the re-branded YooD4 project, currently “under construction” ** in the South End, is back on the market.

From MLS:
A stylish collection of 26 residences finished to perfection with all the features you’d expect from the partnership of Yoo, a leading design-oriented development company and Philippe Starck, one of the world’s great visionary designers. Opening onto [...]