OK, this post isn’t about residential real estate. It’s about commercial real estate — in California. Still, look at these designs of Apple’s proposed new headquarters building in Silicon Valley. It’s impressive.
Expect for one thing: Is it Apple’s version of jumping the shark? You know, something so outrageous that it’s a sign of hubris and [...]

According to MLS there is no shortage of apartments for rent. Boston has a total of 668 apartments for rent (not all for Sept, but most are.) The following are a few Boston nighborhoods with availble apartments listed on MLS:
Back Bay apartments available = 80
Beacon Hill apartments availbale = 30
Charlestown apartments available = 25
South Boston [...]

Boston luxury condos condo sales from 1/1/11 – 8/14/11:
45 Province Street 2011 condo sales
Number of luxury condo sales: 16
Average condo sales price: $953,250.00
Median condo sales price: $841,500.00
Average price per square foot: $729.00
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Boston W Residences 2011 condo sales:
Number of condo sales: 19
Average condo sales price: $1,248,053.00
Median condo sales price: $1.025,000.00
Average sales price per square foot: $911.00

I’m going to make a prediction. And here it is: In the next few weeks a news clip will come out that foreclosure filings are down.
This is the part they won’t tell you about foreclosures:  As of August 18, 2011, Fannie Mae had 137,000 single-family homes in foreclosure; Freddie Mac, 60,599 and the FHA 54,645. Somehow [...]

Boston luxury condo sales at the Ritz Tower (Boston Midtown) between January 1, 2011 throgh August 14, 2011:
Number of Boston Ritz Tower luxury condo sales: 11
Average Ritz condo sales price:: $1,896,591
Avg. sale price per square foot:: $963
Average days on the market: 183
Presently MLS has 30 Ritz Tower luxury condos for sale. The average days on the market for [...]

LINK, a Boston real estate tracking company, reported that the average Boston Midtown condo saw a ‎40.91% percentage increase of the average selling price for Q2 2011 compared to Q2 2010. What is that price? About $1.12m.

First, a proposed new tower in Seaport (see post below). Now Adam says yet another 404-unit apartment tower is being proposed at the site of a parking lot in Chinatown, right next to to the Jacob Wirth restaurant. No word on the fate of the eatery.
Is someone keeping a scorecard on all these apartment [...]

They just keep on coming.
Developers are now set to start building a 21-story, $170,000,000.00 apartment and retail tower on Pier 4, the latest in a slew of new developments in the Seaport area. The Globe piece has all the details about Pier 4 and other nearby projects.
One thing that caught our attention is the [...]

The only way I can sell more affordable Boston condos is if Washington concentrates more on creating jobs. High paying jobs = satisfied Boston condo sellers.

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