Beacon Hill sales buck the trend for the rest of Boston -or-

All of REAL Boston is up, Up, UP!!! and traffic jams on Bradley’s street are at all-time highs -or-

Back Bay and Sout End are surviving amdist the rest of the Boston neighborhoods edging down.

For me, data supports a theory, rather than looking at small datasets — ancedotal data to find a theory. If you can provide hypotheses and let the data guide you, that will be a blog worth reading.

I took the time to actually make this comment because I think it is the only source of information that, despite being run by a broker, has a reasonable chance of being objective. If you make it objective and data-driven, people will read.

If it is a big cheerleading session, they will still read but not want to work with you on the RE side.

My wife and I have front-end and back-end ratios are less than 20%. I won’t say how much lower than 20% though.

A home is a place to live, not an investment. It may be a lifestyle for some, but that’s their choice. So, I look forward to seeing the data, which will tell me how many people made “lifestyle” decisions this year, in this economy.

And now you know my MO. I cringe when people make lifestyle decisions, which in this city, in this economy, are still happening at a rate exceeded only in NYC, LA, and SF.