Massachusetts home sales over the first eight months of 2010 are up more than 9 percent over the comparable period in 2009. In addition, the median price of a single-family home is up 3.9 percent in August to $315,000 from $303,000 a year earlier.
On a month-to-month basis, condominium sales were up 13.2 percent compared to [...]

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Over at The Street website, Jason Notte pens a piece on recent real estate data and quotes an interesting observation:
“I attribute the rise in luxury property sales to the strong recovery in the stock market,” (said Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors). “The job market has not recovered, other areas of the economy are [...]

The tally of August single-family home sales as reported by the Warren Group was no surprise: sales in Massachusetts sunk to a two-decade low. Home sales were even 18.5% percent below August 2009. Condo sales, too, were off from 2009 numbers by 23.3 percent.
As has been documented here, median prices keep creeping up from 2009 [...]

John King, the San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design writer, likes what he sees when it comes to the emerging changes under way in Boston, from the Harborwalk to the South End to the Fort Point Channel area. Via Adam Gaffin’s Universal Hub (links to full SFC article/slideshow).
File under: They don’t call us the San Francisco [...]

The following is from Zillow.com:
Nearly one-third of Americans are unlikely to qualify for a mortgage because their credit scores are too low.
Borrowers with credit scores under 620 who requested purchase loan quotes for 30-year fixed, conventional loans were unlikely to receive even one loan quote on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, even if they offered a relatively [...]

The avg Boston real estate developers wisdom can be summed up in two words: hope and wait.
 

This weekend saw some additional news on the sale of the old Filene’s property by Vornado and John B. Hynes III. The Globe managed to find a New York real estate source  to quote who actually called Boston “Beantown” (please) while the Herald speculated on the most-likely buyer : Boston Residential Group. But Hynes doubts [...]

The number of  Boston condos under agreement per neighborhood:
Back Bay condos under agreement – 38
Beacon Hill condos under agreement – 18
Brighton condos under agreement – 20
Charlestown condos under agreement – 14
Dorchester condos under agreement – 59
East Boston condos under agreement – 12
Hyde Park condos under agreement – 2
Jamaica Plain condos under agreement – 14
Boston Leather [...]

Boston Fenway condo median sales prices for Jan – Aug. for the years 2007 through 2010. Click on Fenway condo chart to enlarge. So far, sales prices are just off a little over three percent.