I just completed an interesting search on LINK regarding Back Bay condos that sold for $600,000 or more. According to Link, seventy-three Back Bay condos sold  (600k & above) from 7/21/10 – 10/21/10, out of the seventy-three, thirty-five were paid with cash, no mortgage. Back Bay condos that sold from $600k -$700k –  5 paid with cash. Back Bay condos that sold [...]

 Boston’s main branch library was recently named one of the world’s “most beautiful” libraries in the world by the Huffington Post. Read more.

The word is flashing across Twitter just now: Shaq is headed to Harvard Square where he’ll sit on a park bench and pretend to be a statue for 1 hour. You cannot make this stuff up folks. As Shaq told the Toucher and Rich radio show earlier this month: “I will be still for the [...]

It’s now available — if you want to live in Green Bay, Wisconsin:  The World’s Best Home For Football Fans Goes On Sale P.S. It’s not as good as one of those famous Chicago apartments looking down on Wrigley Field. But if you’re into football tailgate parties and the entire atmosphere of autumn football games, [...]

NPR: In the financial markets, a lot rides on the word of a company’s top executives. If a CEO tells a lie, a lot of shareholders can get hurt. Now, after studying thousands of corporate earnings calls, two researchers from Stanford University think they’ve come up with a way to tell when senior executives are [...]

Mass. petitions from lenders for foreclosures dropped about 7% in September (compared to a year ago), the Boston Globe reports today, but it’s not clear if the drop was influenced by the halting of foreclosures by big banks. Big lenders began suspending foreclosures in early October as it became clear federal and state authorities were [...]

MLS stats for Boston luxury condos priced $1,000,000 and above: * 280 luxury condos are listed for $1M or above.  This number doesn’t include all the new luxury condo developments. * Avg  days on the market 173.37 (listed not sold). * Avg list price per sq ft $1,037. * Luxury condos under agreement in the last 60 days – [...]

“Credit is just a ‘pretty’ name for DEBT.”  -Richard Russell

The Fed’s latest Beige Book of economic activity around the country is out. Over all, the story hasn’t changed much but the over all message of very-slow-but-still-growing economy seems to be a little more upbeat. For the real estate market for the Boston District (which encompasses all of NE), the picture is what we’d expect [...]