Beacon Hill Median Sales Prices: Click to enlarge Beacon Hill sales chart. Beacon Hill median sales price 2005 – $494,000 Beacon Hill median sales price 2006 – $473,000 Beacon Hill median sales price 2007 – $516,500 Beacon Hill median sales price 2008 – $531,250 Beacon Hill median sales price 2009 – $520,000 Beacon Hill median [...]

Massachusetts luxury real estate Here’s something you don’t see every day. Local entrepreneur Mark Andrus is listing his renovated Chestnut Hill Georgian Revival mansion for $12.5 million, and is pledging to donate 15% of the profits from the sale to the Boston Food Bank. As reported on the Luxlist website, Andrus bought the estate for [...]

According to LINK, four Bryant Back Bay condos sold in the 3rd Q of 2010: Bryant #804: Sold for $1,610,000 or $843.00 per sq ft. on 7/19/10 Bryant #803: Sold for $1,600,000 or $892.oo per sq ft. on 9/17/10 Bryant #405: Sold for $1,562,500 or $722.00 per sq ft. on 9/10/10 Bryant #702: Sold for $1,550,000 or [...]

You might think that the founder and CEO Mark Zukenberg would own a  mansion with an indoor swimming pool and a collection of sports cars. But guess what? As the Oprah Winfrey clip below shows, this CEO rents a very modest home.

The NYTimes column The Appraisal reports that the super lux condo owned by Shia La Beouf’s character in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” is up for sale. For the third time. The owner bought the huge 6,250 s/f pad in 2003 for $1.4 million – he’s now asking $15 million. Of course, in the movie, [...]

On the same day the Boston Herald posts an editorial calling for voters to vote “Yes” on Question 2, the repeal of the “affordable housing law,” the Boston Globe reports on a housing study that says Boston rents will remain high for the foreseeable future. The study is mostly a yawner, stating that the housing [...]

Massachusetts home sales over the first eight months of 2010 are up more than 9 percent over the comparable period in 2009. In addition, the median price of a single-family home is up 3.9 percent in August to $315,000 from $303,000 a year earlier. On a month-to-month basis, condominium sales were up 13.2 percent compared [...]

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First, he was thought to be looking at a Boston downtown luxury condo. Now Shaq is reportedly eying Sudbury as his permanent home while playing with the Celts over the next two years. Excerpts from the Herald: Word on the luxe real estate front is that the newest Boston Celtic – and possibly the newly [...]

Why did this woman pay $500,000 for a 2-week rental? Excerpts from the New York Post: …she’s spending a record-breaking $500,000 for a two-week summer rental in the Hamptons, but not just to go to the beach and shop at tony boutiques — she’s hoping to land the love of her life. “The dating pool [...]