What? Already? It seems a little too quick to be making such pessimistic pronouncements. It seems more likely that the national market will be scraping bottom for a bit longer — or at least the Boston housing market.

The feds have earmarked $22 million for a complete “green” makeover of Southie’s historic Old Colony housing project. Because the money is from the economic stimulus package, one would assume it’s on a construction fast-track. The story says displaced residents will be found new housing during each phase of construction. But where will they [...]

According to Spencer Rascoff of Zillow.com, the Boston real estate market is starting to find the bottom for housing values.
Some markets are starting to find a bottom. Boston for example after 40 months of decline, Boston is basically flat year-over-year

Jay Fitzgerald and Thomas Grillo from the Boston Herald have an interesting piece regarding the Boston commercial real estate market:
It probably won’t be as bad as the early-1990s commercial real estate collapse.
But local bank and real-estate leaders are bracing for conditions to worsen within the local commercial real estate market that’s already seen Boston’s John [...]

This is a story about a Realtor called Harry. Harry owned a real estate office in the San Francisco area. Unlike John Keith, Harry liked to talk about politics. Not only did he talk about politics, he put his conservative thoughts on prominent display in the storefront of his real estate office.
My real estate office [...]

According to the Warren Group it would appear that the first-time buyer tax credit is working here in Massachusetts.
For example, July home sales rose 12 percent, and sales in the lower-end of the market — those that first-time buyers would most likely purchase — were driving that increase.
A total of 1,733 single-family homes priced [...]

Last night, I rented an interesting movie from Mike’s Video store on Beacon Hill — “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29” It’s an entertaining documentary using vintage game footage of the famous November 23, 1968 game between Harvard and Yale’s two undefeated Ivy League teams.
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Attorney General Martha Coakley is going after Acton developers who were allegedly “padding their profits” on affordable housing projects. It’s just one case — and it was referred to Coakley by the inspector general’s office. There’s no indication whether the Acton case is part of a larger probe. But there are lots of similar allegatons [...]

I’ve come across a new type of real estate search engine: Geosapia (http://www.geosapia.com). Instead of digging through unordered listings online, now you can describe your ideal neighborhood, and you get a ranked list of properties. Suddenly putting listings online is actually useful. They are unique from other real estate web sites because [...]

First let me state, that I didn’t come up with the title for this blog post. The Boston Business Journal did. From the Journal:
While the sales pace is arguably slow, there are condo projects like 285 Columbus that are beating expectations. The housing collapse that has ravaged some communities has only grazed the high-end market [...]