Interesting video clip from the televison program Morning Joe about the latest issue of Time Magazine entitled: What Recovery?

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Boston Back Bay condo sales.
Number of Back Bay condo sales from 1/1/11 – 6/12/11 – 161
Number of Back Bay condo sales from 1/1/10 – 6/12/10 – 189
Median Back Bay condo sales price from 1/1/11 – 6/12/11 – $1,310,572.00
Median Back Bay condo sales price from 1/1/11 – 6/12/10 – $1,340,031.00
Average Back Bay condo sales price per [...]

A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax.
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Tired of paying increasingly high rent prices for small apartments? Boston Real Estate Blog sympathizes, and so we magnanimously present to our readers a special deal-of-the-week offer — for a mere $65,000 a week.
Note: Airfare not included.

Yikes. Well, it’s not all that bad. The Massachusetts Housing Partnership says the future looks brighter once we get through the current foreclosure mess.

A Mandarin Oriental luxury condo sold for a record-setting price last week for almost $2,500.00 per square foot. The previous record price was $1,900.00 per square foot. The actual sales price was $12.2 million.
File Under: One for Bradley

Two thumbs up for Linda Mitrano (Ford Realty sales agent) for putting two Beacon Hill buildings under contract this morning. The Beacon Hill apartment buildings included 80 Phillips Street and 43 Grove Street.

Another blow to Boston’s Downtown Crossing: Borders Bookstore is closing down.
I guess now I have no choice. I’m forced to buy a Kindle.
File Under: How sad.

Most movie theaters now have do-not-text announcements before the featured film, which I’m in full support of. But I’ve never seen one like the clip below from an Austin theater. Warning: if you’re at work, lower the volume.

There are some really bad ones, starting with the most expensive home for sale in North Dakota. C’mon, Dakota. There’s got to be something better than that.
The most tacky? Mississippi. We’ve never gone for the literal man-and-his-castle look. But it could just be our tastes.