Local blogger-extraordinaire Adam Gaffin takes issue with a recent Globe story on the “flaming manholes” of the North End. I can’t get some marvelous reportage in the Globe the other day out of my head. In his story about the North End’s flaming manholes of death, reporter Michael Naughton brilliantly described the area: The neighborhood, [...]

So, let me see if I’ve got this right. The US economy was seen as being in trouble. Investors were fleeing the stock market and turning to safer investments such as US Treasury notes & bonds. Investors were worried because of the “credit crunch” that was gripping the markets, caused by the “subprime lending crisis” [...]

The South End News is out with its semi-annual “Urban Living” supplement: Just take a stroll through the neighborhood and you’ll get a sense that, despite what developers and real estate agents say, development hasn’t slowed in the South End. There are at least seven major developments either under construction or in the planning process. [...]

I was looking for more information on the new 1330 Boylston development, rising up in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood, at 1330 Boylston Street (um, can they start by getting a better name?). So of course I typed in 1330boylston.com. Which brings up a “placeholder” page with a photo of a woman’s crotch. That’s pleasing. There’s a [...]

An article in the Boston Business Journal says developer Ron Druker has plans to replace the historic Shreve, Crump & Low building on Boylston Street with a mid-rise tower. The developer was not willing to talk to the press about his plans, but sources say it will be replaced with either condos or office space, [...]

Two small bits of information. First, apparently if you call the SoHa Lofts phone number listed on at least one website, you are instead connected to a poor young woman who has no idea what the SoHa Lofts are. (SoHa Lofts was the name for a development proposed for 519 Albany Street, in Boston’s South [...]

Unless you were hiding under a pier, you heard about the great event that took place on Fan Pier, earlier today. Developer Joe Fallon had a ceremonial “ground breaking” on his first office tower. When Fan Pier is completed, sometime during the next decade, the 21-acre project in the Seaport District will include 3 million [...]

Best search term used by a reader coming to my site, today: “where is our economy headed” My answer? I have no idea!

From Inman News: Robert Bruss, the nationally syndicated real estate columnist, author and investing expert read by thousands of consumers, passed away today at his Northern California home. Bruss was an Inman News columnist and dear friend of the real estate publishing company. He wrote seven real estate columns every week that were published in [...]

I just read this complaint. I have to say, he’s right! Now there is a big housing problem in the South End. There are a lot of new people who are coming into the South End at the present time because it’s so convenient to downtown. Some are putting up a lot of luxury housing [...]