The Modern condo development is going to auction on May 18. The auction company, Accelerated Marketing Partners, has announced it will participate with brokers, paying a 2% commission on each closed sale.
So, for those of you who might want assistance in preparing your bid, let me know if I can help.
And, for you smart-asses [...]

Two from the Boston Business Journal.
First, the under-development Russia Wharf has signed up a big tenant.
Wellington Management Co. LLP has inked a deal to occupy 450,000 square feet of space at Russia Wharf, capping one of Boston’s largest lease deals in recent months.
Boston Properties Inc. (NYSE: BXP), which is building a 552,000-square-foot office tower at [...]

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CNN has come out with a list of six cities where you might want to consider buying real estate (Boston, in this case, meaning “Greater Boston”, based on the map that accompanies the story):
One of the first places to experience the downturn, Beantown also appears to be among the first to rebound: In the [...]

Tell me it ain’t so!
From today’s Herald:
Boston Globe sportswriters Jackie MacMullan and Peter May and real estate reporter Thomas Palmer are among the 23 newsroom workers who are leaving the paper as part of a voluntary buyout offer.
The other 23 departing employees include a press room foreman and people who work in the paper’s finance [...]

Welcome, college boys! And, girls.
From BU Today:
The Boston University School of Medicine (MED) recently purchased an 86,000-square-foot parcel of land on Albany Street, where someday soon an apartment building for medical students will rise.
“The addition of on-campus housing has been something that the medical school has talked about for decades,” says President Robert [...]

Ha!
Economy grows by only 0.6 percent in first quarter – By Jeannine Aversa, Associated Press
The bruised economy limped through the first quarter of this year at a six-tenths of a percentage point growth rate as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.
The country’s economic growth during January through March was [...]

Care to place a bet on first-quarter GDP, scheduled for release tomorrow?
From Wikipedia:
In macroeconomics, a recession is a decline in a country’s real gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year.
In the US, the judgment of the business-cycle dating committee of the National Bureau of [...]

From yesterday’s Globe:
Vandals tore up 18 new trees that had been planted last week in a playground in an industrial corner of Roxbury.
A dog walker found the red maples and white swamp oaks this morning lying on the ground at the Clifford Playground. The 4- to 8-foot tall saplings were in a grove of 50 [...]

The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz profiles the Boston Herald in a column in yesterday’s paper.

[The] paper is hurting, its daily circulation having shrunk to 203,000 (compared with 384,000 for the Boston Globe), and just 113,000 on Sunday. [It is] down to a scrappy band of 10 city reporters, beyond those in the features, business and [...]

Sour grapes or spot-on criticism?
From the Globe:
From projects as small as a park playground, to visions as grand as a new City Hall on the South Boston waterfront, [Mayor Thomas] Menino has showered audiences with commitments and promises since his election in 1993. He has delivered on many, but not all …
… Among the [...]