45 Province Street Number of condos sold – 15. Avg. sales price – $1,501,817.00. Med sales price – $1,304,000.00. Avg. sq. ft. – $1,008.00. Battery Wharf Number of condos sold – 54. Avg. sales price – $2,142,590.00. Med sales price – $1,643,682.00. Avg. sq. ft. – $1,047.00. Bryant Back Bay Number of condos sold – [...]

Back Bay luxury condo stats: *According to MLS Back Bay has 250 condos for sale. *124 (approx 50%) are priced $1mil or more. *Avg. asking price per sq. ft. $1,209.00 ($1mil plus) *Avg. sales price per sq. ft. $1,002.00 ($1mil plus) *Avg. days on the market 150.78. View todays Back Bay condo listings.

From the Boston Globe: Massachusetts shed more than 9,000 jobs that month (September), the most since April. Other data, such as plunging state tax collections, also suggested the economy was weakening. Meanwhile, Massachusetts wasn’t getting much of a boost from stimulus programs such as “cash for clunkers,’’ which offered owners of old cars and trucks [...]

Back Bay condo sales 10/1/09 – 10/31/09 Number of Back Bay condos sold – 28 Avg Back Bay condo sales price – $904,246.00 Median Back Bay condo sales price – $607,250.00 Average price per sq ft. – $708.00 Back Bay condo sales 10/1/08 – 10/31/08 Number of Back Bay condos sold – 47 Avg Back [...]

BACHELORS always seemed to have it made. With only themselves to support, they could flash their cash and trick out their apartments in such a way that James Bond himself would feel at home shaking himself a martini in their ultra-cool, chick-magnet pads. But times have changed… Bachelor pads are a lot less fun when [...]

Interesting article from Banker & Tradesman entitled: Home Prices Rising? There have been several reports, including one from Zillow earlier this week, about home prices rising or stabilizing in some parts of the country. Does that include the Bay State? Statewide, median home prices so far this year are off almost 10 percent from last [...]

This sounds like a great Charlestown home for sale, but you never know when you’re being led on a wild goose chase. Okay. Bad pun. But you got to hand it to the Herald for setting the tone of the story: “In Charlestown lived Mother Goose, and now her house is on the loose.” In [...]

From the National Association of Realtors Home sales will increase 15 percent to about 5.7 million units and REALTOR® income will be up 20 percent in 2010, NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun told a packed room of REALTORS® yesterday in a residential economic update at the 2009 NAR Conference & Expo. Yun credited the home [...]

Boston ranked a respectable third out of 55 for “smartest cities in America,” according to The Daily Beast. Although the study measures metropolitan areas, undoubtedly, Boston’s higher education establishments, hospitals, and bio-tech industries contributed greatly to the ranking. The first, second, and third smartest cities in the nation were Raleigh-Durham, San Francisco, and Boston. Follow [...]

Boston condo sales for the first 12 days of November: 78 condos have sold in Boston. $50,000 – $200,000 – 11 condo sold. $201,000 – $300,000 – 29 condos sold. $301,000 – $400,000 – 14 condos sold. $401,000 – $500,000 – 2 condos sold. $501,000 – $600,000 – 5 condos sold. $601,000 – $700,000 – [...]