As if all the double-parked moving vans, mountains of discarded furniture and trash on our streets, along with 75,000 college students moving into the area are not enough to fray nerves – city officials are were up against a tiny problem that poses a huge threat. Bedbugs.
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LINK’s 2nd Q Boston sales report was published yesterday, if you’re a buyer or seller, you’ll find the information in this report very informative.
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Ford Realty is opening our Boston South End building for sale to all brokers. The building is located at 173 Warren Ave in the South End for $1.6 mil. If you’re a buyer or a broker looking  to obtain floor plans and more information on the building, please call Linda Mitrano at 617-512-4557. The listing with pictures [...]

How long does it take to sell a Boston condo?
Fenway – 68 days
North End – 98 days
South End – 110 days
South Boston – 111 days
Back Bay – 137 days
Midtown – 148 days
Beacon Hill – 149 days
Source: MLS based on the last 6 months of Boston condo sales.

March 3, 2010 excerpts from Fed Beige Book:
Residential Real Estate
Home and condo sales continued to show significant year-over-year increases in December 2009, belying concerns that year-over-year declines would recur after the huge sales increases in November that were mainly attributed to the first-time homebuyer tax credit. Part of the continued strength may be due to [...]

It’s not like I would ever say that free money isn’t worth it, especially when it’s a tax credit of up to $8,000. But I still doubt that first-time homebuyers who got their chunk of the housing kick-start are jumping for joy that they won’t be able to e-file come April.
As if it’s not hard [...]

Attorney General Martha Coakley is going after Acton developers who were allegedly “padding their profits” on affordable housing projects. It’s just one case — and it was referred to Coakley by the inspector general’s office. There’s no indication whether the Acton case is part of a larger probe. But there are lots of similar allegatons [...]

Buried in an article in Sunday’s New York Times was an update on Gale International’s One Franklin, née Filene’s building, development project.
As most readers know, the project has been delayed “because of difficulties obtaining credit,” according to the Times.
According to Gale president and chief executive John B Hynes, III, about three-quarters of the 250,000 square [...]

There is a cool building at the corners of Tremont and Charles Street South. It’s the “Church of All Nations” building at 333 Tremont Street, a.k.a., “the Round Building”. (The current-day building was constructed in 1975; prior churches on the site were apparently more ornate. The building before the current one was [...]