Click on Boston Beacon Hill condo sales chart to enlarge.
So what do we have here:
1. Boston Beacon Hill condo sales up 50% in 2nd Q 2011 compared to 2010.
2. Average Beacon Hill condo sales price up 7.12% – 2nd Q 2011 w/ 2010.
3. Median Beacon Hill condo sales price up 15.39%.
File Under: en-fuego.

There are more honor students (top quartile) currently in school in China than there are total students in the US. If you’re “one in a million” in China, then there are a thousand other people just like you.
Being the Best in the World gets more challenging all the time.
The clip below is a liitle outdated, [...]

A few updates on 45 Province Street. The Abbey Group announced that the Torit Language Center Montessori school will occupy two floors at the 45 Province luxury condominium tower.
According to the Abby Group, 45 Province Street has sold 42 luxury condos out of 137.

Forget about Paris’s famous Left Bank vs. Right Bank preferences.
Boston now has its own North Bank vs. South Bank real estate rivalry.
Scott reports that the Cambridge residential rental market is now hotter than the Beacon Hill and Back Bay rental markets, based on vacancy rates. They’re chortling over in Cambridge, which apparently has more of [...]

Approximately 200 yards from my Beacon Hill office, there’s a historical plaque on a building located on North Anderson Street. I previously never realized it was there — and I only vaguely knew about this Beacon Hill murder that has been called the “19th Century OJ Simpson murder trial.”
The story: Dr. George Parkman was a man of regular [...]

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Diana Olick and Scott Van Voorhis both point to stats indicating that the debt-ceiling debate in Washington may be impacting mortgage rates and buying decisions by consumers.
They note that home buyers who sign contracts on existing homes are bailing out of deals at an alarming rate.
In Boston Real Estate Blog’s humble opinion, the [...]

This Boston real estate blog post is dedicated to all a few U.S. Congress representatives.

File Under: Made in 1932 — another crisis period.

It sounds like an odd fit: The Restoration Hardware chain is eyeing the old LouisBoston building/landmark in the Back Bay for a possible store location. Doesn’t seem quite right. But it is a high-end outfit.

The Fed’s Beige Book report came out today, asserting that economic activity continues to increase in the New England region, albeit at a slightly slower pace. But the housing market … well, we’ll leave it to the Feds to describe the situation:
According to contacts, job insecurity and stricter lending requirements among larger banks continue to [...]