45 Province Street had eight sales so far in 2011. Perhaps not selling as fast as they would like, but chugging along.
Midtown – 45 Province # 1708 Status: Sold Price: $735,000 Type: Condo
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Sq. Footage: 966 $/Sq. Foot: $760.87
Condo Fee: $769.00 Bldg Loc: Space: None Parking: Deeded
Update: 04/22/2011 – Sold
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I usually don’t write about dating and luxury apartments in the same blog post, but today I’ll make an exception to the rule.
This morning I was reading an article in the New York Post entitled: Welcome, Ladies with a subtitle: Would you sleep with this guy because of his apartment? He certainly hopes so.
Basically, [...]

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Overall, Wednesday or Friday is likely to be the most important day of the week as they bring us the two most important reports on the agenda. If they give us weaker than expected results, we could close the week with lower mortgage rates than Tuesday’s [...]

Scott crunches the numbers to see where home sellers are feeling the most pain in Greater Boston — and there are some surprises on his list.
He also throws in the home-price numbers for Athol, which sounds like a town that time forgot, as far as home prices go.

Feeling stressed out? You’re not alone. According to a new Gallop Poll, Massachusetts ranked as the 5th most stressed State with 40% or more people reporting being stressed out.

With the “heat” of the basketball playoffs  in full swing,  I thought I would share with you some famous basketball palyers mansions and how much (we collectively) they paid for their luxury homes.
LeBron James
Love him or hate him, he still lives like a King (James):

Price: $11,900,000
Location: Coconut Grove, Florida
Square footage: 12,178
Bedrooms: 6
Baths: 8 full, 1 half
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We all knew or sensed it. But this kind of makes it official: There was no spring rebound in the Massachusetts or U.S. housing market. It’s a disappointment.
The Warren Group’s Tim Warren says it best: “Job growth is the key. When you hear that the guy in the next cubicle has found a new job [...]

One of my Boston apartment renters is way behind in her May rent. Thankfully, I received her rent check in today’s mail. Which brings me to the Boston real estate quote of the day:
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are: “Check enclosed.”
—Dorothy Parke
Photo from Flickr

Many people put their own unique stamp on his or her Boston condo in some way. Nevertheless, the advice whenever you sell your property is to depersonalize, depersonalize, depersonalize, right down to the paint on the walls and carpet on the floor.
That’s probably an excellent idea when it comes to removing your old college beanbag [...]

Below is a SNL clip of what it might be like if the embattled IMF head was confronted with some opinionated inmates in a real jail (not locked-up in a luxury condo)