From GlobeSt.com:
Continuing to jockey for expansion room in the tight Back Bay, the Berklee College of Music has purchased three commercial buildings here for a combined price of $24.7 million. Totaling approximately 75,000 sf of retail and office space, the assets had been under long-term ownership to local investor Arnold Mason.
The addresses are 155, 159-165 [...]

I thought people might find it helpful if I picked out a couple open houses you might be interested in seeing, this weekend.
As always, I’m available for more information or to discuss my services as your buyer’s agent.
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First, a one-bedroom home in the South End.
From MLS:
Great one bedroom condo right across from the Boston Center [...]

The 1850 is a condo conversion of an historic building in Boston’s South End.
The building has been broken up into 60 unique and interesting spaces.
Pricing is attractive to first-time homebuyers and anyone else looking to get into the downtown Boston market.
The lowest-priced unit currently listed in MLS is Unit #212, listed at $326,000, which is [...]

I was recently contacted by a member of the Audubon Park sales team. She wanted to make my readers aware of the new Audubon Park project, which was just recently completed.
In my opinion, the value of this project is in its location. There are very few new condominium developments being built in the [...]

While this past week has been an unkind one for members of one Boston-area real estate company, another one appears poised for growth.
(How’s that for a lede?)
Rumor has it that Keller Williams will be expanding, opening its second downtown Boston office. Word is that they are negotiating a lease on Tremont Street, in the [...]

I am running the Boston Marathon this year, on behalf of Community Servings.
I have made a commitment to raise $5,000 for Community Servings.
If there is any way you can help by making a donation, I would greatly appreciate it. Community Servings does great work and provides a very important service to those in need.
Thank [...]

You have got to be careful when buying a home. There are two things you have to do, regardless of whatever else you do.
* Have a home inspection;
* Be specific when listing items included in the sale.
In the story below, a buyer was not specific about what was included in the sale, and was [...]

Tell me, is something like this useful?
http://bostonreb.com/sundayopenhouses.html
You can click on any of the column headers and the table will re-sort. (Clicking on “Address” will sort the table by “Address”, clicking on “$List Price” will sort by “$List Price”, etc.)
You can click on the MLS # for more information.
What other information would you like to [...]

Not much new here, but just an FYI.
This is a fantastic project, and will fill a gaping hole in the neighborhood. Yay!
A 103-unit, mixed-income apartment building that’s part of a multimillion-dollar project to revitalize Boston’s Jackson Square has the go-ahead from the city’s Zoning Board of Appeal.
Mitchell Properties received a variance Tuesday to build [...]

Here’s a funky application you might find useful if you’re putting your home up for sale and want to involve and engage visitors to your property’s website.
MapsAlive.com lets you create interactive maps to put on your web pages.
A “map” can be any image such as a diagram, floor plan, photo, or geographic map.
* Create [...]