The Back Bay condo chart above shows fourth quarter sales comparison based on a per square foot basis. Click on Back Bay condo chart to enhance.
Back Bay condo sales for 700 square ft or less increased 81.25% compared to the 4th Q 2010.
Back Bay condo sales from 701 – 1,000 square ft increased 11.76% compared [...]

A new chocolate shop will be opening at 220 Clarendon St., between Newbury and Bolyston streets, and plans to start doling out its chocolate and other treats as early as next month.
More information on the Back Bay chocolate shop.

Jonathan Papelbon, who signed with the Phillies after this year’s disastrous Sox season, is now selling his Back Bay pad for $3.1 million. The four-bedroom penthouse on Beacon Street has has a cool roof deck and spare bedroom made out to look like a Fenway locker room. The best part: It’s not tacky.

For the fourth straight month, the confidence of local Realtors has increased in Massachusetts, reflecting a small pick-up in homes sales.
Compared to the little girl in the post below, at least someone’s happy these days.
File under: Holiday spirts, redux

You might be thinking: “OK, Boston Real Estate Blog is really stooping low in order to somehow get Renee Zellweger’s famous traffic-driving name in a blog post.”
But, wait! There really is a local Boston real-estate angle. The person handling the blonde Hollywood actresses’s sale of her Connecticut colonial home for $1.5 million is none other [...]

Don’t look now, but a proposal by Simon Property to build a 47-story residential tower near Copley Square is drawing more and more criticism.
The opponents’ biggest stated complaint: The tower will cast a huge shadow over the square. But the debate over shadows somehow always seems to drift toward another complaint: That there isn’t [...]

Back Bay condo sales from Janaury 1st – October 23rd for years: 2007 through 2011.
2011 – Number of Back Bay condo sales – 372
2010 – Number of Back Bay condo sales – 382
2009 – Number of Back Bay condo sales – 294
2008 – Number of Back Bay condo sales – 453
2007 – Number of Back [...]

The “official” Boston Back Bay condo sales results for the 2011 3rd Q won’t be out for another couple of weeks, but here’s what you may expect:
Back Bay condos sales 3rd Q 2010 – 133.
Back  Bay condo sales 3rd Q 2011 – 145.
Average Back Bay condo sales price 2010 – $931,000.00
Average Back Bay condo sales [...]

In the Wall Street Journal’s Leisure and Arts section, there’s an interesting interview with Henry Cobb, who was the building architect for the Hancock tower in Boston’s Back Bay.
Here are a few interesting highlights of Boston’s most “famous and iconic” skyscraper:
* Construction began in August 1968 and was opened to the public 35 years ago [...]

It’s confirmed: Restoration Hardware is moving into the old LouisBoston space on Boylston Street in the Back Bay.
The retail chain is definitely trying to go high-end, but the name still doesn’t seem to fit its targeted market. It doesn’t sound right.
But we wish them luck. They’re returning to the Back Bay after closing [...]