Just listed: Beacon Hill storefront for rent.  The best deal on Beacon Hill — $2,300 per month. For more information, call Linda Mitrano at 617-720-5454. I also have three other Boston Beacon Hill retail locations available for rent. Ideal for start-up companies. Not so great for real estate offices, nail shops or banks; we already [...]

If Sigmund Freud was still alive, he would be very proud. Vienna, capital of Austria and the city Sigmund Freud obssesed over, along with other issues, has been ranked as the nicest city in the world. Our great city of Boston was ranked 37th, behind Honolulu (29th) and San Francisco (30th). The good news is [...]

The latest S&P/Case-Shiller home price index is out again. Sorry, Boston, but we’re still not out of the woods. We were among the losers in September, though not nearly to the extent felt in other cities across the nation. Boston’s price stats: Home prices fell .77 percent in September, .05 percent over the previous three [...]

As you are well aware, our infamous Rep Barney Frank announced his retirement after 32 years in Congress. Boston real estate blog readers – to be, uh, frank – we owe him a debt of gratitude for calling it a day.

It’s hard to believe that the 2011 year is almost over. I thought I would take a moment and say a prayer: Dear Father: Please. For the new year a thin body and a fat bank account. Don’t mix them up again as you did this year.

At first glance, you might not think Boston real estate mortgages and college loans have much in common. But perhaps they should. During the real estate boom, just about anybody was able the obtain a mortgage. Today, the qualifications to purchase real estate by using a mortgage have tightened up. So why not start to [...]

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times thoughts on the real estate market: “…housiing not to improve anytime soon…”

Boston luxury condo sales at 45 Province Street for the last 30 days. Number of Boston luxury condo sales – 3 Average luxury condo sales price – $1,716,667.00 Median luxury condo sales price – $1,725,000.00 Average 45 Province sales price per square foot – $1,001.00 Average days on the market – 247 Midtown – 45 [...]

They’re now coming off the conveyor belt like widgets: The BRA has approved the Abbey Group’s plan for a new $150 million residential and office/retail complex at 1282 Boylston in the Fenway. It’s just the latest residential-building project to proceed in Boston. It’s also one of a slew of similar developments in the Fenway. As [...]

Let me guess. Today, you weren’t at a bar across the street from Penn Station in NYC. I was.  This is what I heard at the Penn Station bar: The Boston real estate quote of the day: Bankers only give out umbrellas on sunny days My add on: They don’t travel on Acela either. File [...]