From the Boston Globe, August 13: Boston’s innovative effort to combat housing foreclosure’s effects on neighborhoods reached a milestone yesterday when the city selected a Roxbury developer to renovate four dilapidated homes on Hendry Street in Dorchester … … Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who spearheaded the project, hopes the effort will attract buyers to the [...]

From Realtor.org: In a report for Forbes.com, Hotpads.com, an aggregator of rental listings, produced a price-to-earnings spread for each ZIP code in the country’s 40 largest cities by comparing rental costs with buying costs for similar properties, based on number of bedrooms, location, and price per square foot. A price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E, expresses how [...]

All you naysayers are wrong about the RKG, I am happy (and surprised) to report. Walking through there, earlier this afternoon, I was pleased with what I saw. Mostly. Some photos, plus short, pithy comments above each photo. (I am serious that it’s getting better. Plenty of people walking through there. Plus it’s clean. And, [...]

The Globe profiles the Seaport District. Or, where the “Seaport District” may someday rise. Plans are for several new mega-billion, multi-use projects to fill the space. In the meantime, the vast, windblown streets are often lonesome between destinations, making the waterfront feel like an amalgam of disparate elements – convention center, hotel bars, a museum, [...]

Scott Van Voorhis writes a column about whether or not we should call the Seaport District the “Seaport District”. Answer: Yes. Development is booming along the waterfront by Fan Pier and the Moakley federal courthouse. But confusion reigns over the area’s name and even its brand identity. City Hall is preparing to roll out dozens [...]

The cooler (less hot?) real estate market in Boston has brought many changes over the past couple of years. Lots of agents changing companies, etc. This week, Elad Bushari left Sotheby’s Realty and went out on his own. Congratulations and good luck, Elad!

Ever driven down the Rose Kennedy Greenway Parkway and wondered, why is there all this open space, where you might assume there’d be some trees or grass, maybe a building or two? Yeah, me too. None of the proposed buildings for the stretch of land are anywhere near breaking ground. The landscape is littered with [...]

A new neighborhood is under development, near North Station, much of it on created land. * First General Realty will soon release plans for a multi-use project at the corner of Causeway and Beverly streets, which will include two Marriott hotels, office space, ground-floor retail and over 200 parking spaces. * Construction is underway on [...]

I was quoted in a story in today’s Boston Globe. The article was about Boston’s Downtown Crossing neighborhood, which borders the Financial District, Waterfront, Midtown, and Ladder District neighborhoods. The neighborhood is home to 6,000 residents, and many more are on the way, including people moving into 45 Province, the attractive residential tower rising over [...]

Great site describing many of Boston’s great neighborhoods, along with a huge number of great photos. A little about the South End, the best neighborhood in America! The South End’s population has been diverse since the 1880s when Irish, Jewish, African-American, Greek, Syrian, and Lebanese populations began to settle in the neighborhood. In the 1930 [...]