According to LINK data Back Bay condo sales and prices continue to increase:
Back Bay condo sales from 1/1/09 – 7/31/09
Number of Back Bay condo sales – 189
Avg Back Bay condo sales price – $980,702
Median Back Bay condo sales price – $650,000
Avg. Back Bay condo price per sq ft – $748.00
Avg. days-on-market for a Back Bay [...]

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The new owner of the Fairmont Copley Plaza is planning a $20 million “refreshing” of the iconic 383-room hotel, including building a larger fitness center.
But here’s the other potentially more important news: That the nearly $100 million purchase deal happened at all, considering the still largely frozen credit and investment markets, and that an executive [...]

According to MLS, 50 condominiums are presently under agreement in the Back Bay; 21 of those condos are priced $1,000,000 and above.

Now the DeLuca’s Market on Newbury Street is also closed. They were reportedly selling some of the produce and canned goods salvaged in the dead of night from the fire-damaged Charles Street store — against city sanitary codes. Someone blew the whistle on them.
File under: Smoked foods.

Not even one of the best salesmen in Massachusetts can sell off his home.
After three years on the market, auto king Herb Chambers keeps slashing the price of his Beaux Arts-style mansion at 128 Commonwealth Ave. in the Back Bay. The posh pad’s price has fallen from $14.9 million to $10.5 million, despite a [...]

The Boston Herald reported in today’s paper that the “last empty lot” in the Back Bay has been sold including the adjacent building. The new buyer plans to build a single-family home on the site.
Read the Boston Herald to find how much it sold for.

Boston Metro has a positive story this morning on the Back Bay market:
Boston real estate brokers are saying the Back Bay market is “on fire,” with 69 sales since January with an average price of $1.4 million. “Many buyers feel the recession is ancient history,” says John Ford, owner of Ford Realty on Charles and [...]

Actually, it would be living at the site of the old L’Espalier restaurant at 30 Gloucester St. in the Back Bay — now available for $1.5 million. The article adds: “Or, you can make an offer for the whole building and create an elegant single-family home.”
One thing is clear: It’s a beautiful, landmark building.
The [...]

The highly ambitious Columbus Center development over the Mass Pike is now officially dead.
They may be cheering in the immediate neighborhoods surrounding the proposed $800 million project. Columbus Center would have been a big pain for them.
But the Columbus Center — with its planned five buildings of condos, hotel rooms and stores — would have [...]