I was reading a blog this morning regarding leadership entitled: A message to a leader. The writer asked a simple question: What is a leader?
The answer of course is a leader leads. Is that too simple?
Writers write. If you want to be a Boston real estate writer, write. And be sure to have people read what [...]

As stated in an earlier blog post I’m eagerly waiting for the “Grand Opening” signs to appear in Boston, to show we’re pulling out of the “Great Recession” Well here’s some hope:
Bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com reported that a new restaurant will be opening up in the former Brighham’s space in the Boston Financial District.
According to a poster on the [...]

File Under: She fell for it.

In the news, I keep hearing that if U.S. doesn’t raise the debt ceiling, the U.S. economy will collapse. What I don’t hear enough of  is: Why? And, more importantly, what impact will this have on the Boston real estate market?
So here’s a quick and, hopefully, understandable explanation.
Think of the U.S. national debt as a super [...]

Here’s encouraging news: Historic Boston Inc. is going to restore and then divide up into five housing units the old Kittredge mansion in Roxbury. The Globe has an interesting story this morning on the $2.8 million project.
Monday, the non-profit Historic Boston Inc. is holding an open house at the Greek-revival mansion, between 5 and 7 [...]

Miners used to use canaries to detect carbon dioxide in mines. If the canary went kaput, then there was bad things to come. … Commercial space has been the canary in our recession. Remember the mall closest to where you live? Those big-anchor tenants (i.e. Macy’s, Sears, Lord and Taylor) were always there. They never [...]

Here’s a depressing story on how difficult it is to get developments through Boston’s (and the state’s) tortuous zoning, legal and building-permit stages.
It’s technically a classic NIMBY tale, but recent court decisions now make a proposed South Boston housing/art studio project a possible test case on whether building opponents can sue, at any time, to [...]

All of those foreclosed homes sitting empty, often times with the utilities shut off, are gathering more than just dust. NPR reports they’re also gathering, or actually growing, mold.
Says one Realtor quoted by NPR: ”I have a release form that I use, and if the property has got a lot of mold in it, I don’t [...]

The war of words escalated yesterday between Mayor Menino and Vorando Realty Trust, with his honor calling the owner of Downtown Crossing’s Big Hole “scurrilous.”
Boy, Menino really hates those guys. As a result, we think it’s now officially safe to say the  two sides will never reconcile in our life time.
FYI: There was one other [...]

This is a follow up chart to a previous Boston Real Estate Blog post.
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