Score one for opponents of Suffolk University’s expansion on Beacon Hill. The unviversity, which recently experienced an administrative shakeup, is now putting on indefinite hold plans to build a 10-story New England School of Art and Design building at 20 Somerset Street, site of the old MDC headquarters on Beacon Hill.  If you may recall, the university initially planned to build [...]

You have to give Boston’s Putnam Investments credit: It’s going where no one else wants to go. The Boston Business Journal is reporting that the giant mutual-fund and institutional money manager is planning to create a new real estate investment trust (REIT) to invest in bonds backed by mortgages, including subprime mortgages. The thinking behind [...]

New Real Estate Listings - Updated April 12, 2011 MLS #   Address   Description List Price 71213172   416 Commonwealth Ave.   5 room, 2 bed, 2 bath 2/3 Family $875,000 71213256   15 Concord Street   7 room, 4 bed, 2 bath 2/3 Family $859,000 71214046   188 W Canton St   5 room, [...]

Number of Back Bay luxury condo sales priced $1,000,000 or more – 37 sales Average Back Bay luxury condo sales price – $2,303,924.00 Median Back Bay luxury condo sales price – $1,800,000.00 Average price per square foot- $1,005.00 View all Back Bay sales 

It looks like we’re moving toward a “new norm”: 20 percent down for home purchases — or much higher interest rates if a buyer can’t cough up the full 20 percent. It’s not the market dictating this. It could soon be a government requirement. What do you think? This sure looks like it could hurt [...]

Beacon Hill Retail Space Boston Beacon Hill retail space for rent on Charles Street. Asking price  is $3,600.00 for over 1,000 square feet. For more information, call Linda Mitrano at 617-512-4557.

MLS #   Address   Description List Price 71212651   88 Pinckney St   9 room, 4 bed, 2 bath 2/3 Family $2,350,000 71212381   1091 Boylston Street   0 room, 0 bed, 0 bath 2/3 Family $1,350,000 71212400   308 Commonwealth Avenue   7 room, 3 bed, 2 bath 2/3 Family $1,265,000 71212295   [...]

Who does the IMF think we are? Greece? Ireland? Portugal? Apparently so. The International Monetary Fund is now rendering judgment on various U.S. housing policies and reform proposals. Here’s the sad part: They’re largely right. The federal government is now on the hook for lord knows how many billions trillions of dollars in federally backed home [...]

New Real Estate Listings � Updated April 10, 2011 MLS #   Address   Description List Price 71211817   409 Commonwealth Avenue   8 room, 4 bed, 3 bath 2/3 Family $4,200,000 71211841   409 Commonwealth Avenue   7 room, 3 bed, 3 bath 2/3 Family $3,800,000 71211837   409 Commonwealth Avenue   6 room, [...]

Back Bay condos sales: Back Bay condos sales from January 1, 2011 – April 9, 2011 – 86. Back Bay condo sales from January 1, 2010 – April 9, 2010 – 103 Back Bay Average Condo Sales Price: Back Bay average condo sales price from Jan 1, 2011 – April 9, 2011 – $1,313,080 Back Bay average condo [...]