I’ve heard from some of my blog readers, that the list price for Boston proper condos will be going down in 2009. Let’s check the numbers… New Boston proper condo listings from 1/1/09 – 1/20/09 Avg. list price – $830,340.00 Avg price per sq ft. – $609.00 Are prices going down?  Well, maybe not this week. But…… MLS stats [...]

Beacon Hill condo sales, comparing the  4th Q of ’07 with the 4th Q in ’08. * Number of condos sold in ’07 – 25 * Number of condos sold in ’08 – 24 ___________________________________ * Average list price in ’07 -$754,000 * Average list price in ’08 – $858,000 ___________________________________ Average sales price in ’07 – $712,100 Average [...]

Adress Purchase Sold +/- 7 Pimus Ave #3 10/16/96 1/2/09   Sales Price $79,000 $215,000 + $136,000                 Address Purchase Sold +/- 21 Beacon #2B 6/30/04 1/2/09   Sales Price $265,000 $300,000 + $35,000                 Address Purchase Sold +/- 6 Goodwin [...]

I know you can’t read much into one weeks worth of Boston real estate data. However, lets take a quick look on how the 2009 Boston real estate market is shaping up. The following is from MLS data. Number of NEW Boston condos listed – 82 Number of Boston condos re-listed with another company – 24 Number of Boston condos under [...]

For those who have been reading this blog, you may recall that I’ve been following the outcome of an apartment building/condo conversion project here on Beacon Hill. Last month, City Realty Group lost the listings for the building. Today, according to MLS, Jeannemaria Conley of Otis & Ahearn is the new listing broker. So here is where we [...]

Beacon Hill condo sales. Beacon Hill condo sales in ’07 vs ’08 Number of Beacon Hill sales in ’07 - 149 Number of Beacon Hill sales in ’08 – 176 ______________________________________ Avg. price for Beacon Hill in ’07 – $700,579 Avg. price for Beacon Hill in ’08 – $683, 799 ________________________________________ Avg. sq. ft. price for Beacon [...]