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Batch Yard Amenities Are As Sweet As Candy

  Recently, I visited The Batch Yard, the new Everett apartments on the site of the former Charleston Chew factory. From my office in Back Bay, it’s about six miles and I got there in about 16 minutes....

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Three Interesting Stories About New Hub Buildings

What happened when construction was about to begin and the client called up and said they wanted an extra floor on the building, and what happens? What happened when  an underground garage was found to...

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The Feature That Makes Boston’s Millennium Tower World Class

Millennium Tower worker is on other side of safety net.   Describing Christopher M. Jeffries, Anthony Pangaro, a principal at Millennium Partners-Boston, said Jeffries has a habit of seeing things...

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The New Normal in the Hub Condo Market: $1000 a Square Foot

171 Beacon #2, Back Bay – 565 square feet for $599,000. (Julie Harrison, Listing Agent).   Today, more than 150 Boston condos are asking at least $1000 square foot. That’s more than twice as many that...

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Slick New Cambridge Apartment Building Abuts Natural Preserve

Fuse Cambridge is a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll.   There is living in the city and there is living in nature, and then there is living at Fuse Cambridge, the slick new 244-unit...

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Breaking Down the First 50 Sales at 22 Liberty

Work is done at 22 Liberty (building on left) and the luxury Seaport condos have started closing.   Perhaps the most anticipated and most secretive Boston condo development in recent memory is 22...

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Billowing Sails Could Lead to Boston Condo sales

In 2006, the Boston Globe used the word “Boring” to describe the design of The Intercontinental Boston Hotel and Residences, a design in which noted Boston architect Howard Elkus had been deeply...

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Company Secures Entire Boston Buildings for Short Term Furnished Rentals

Compass Furnished Apartments rented the entire building at 1085 Boylston, Boston.   Compass Furnished Apartments, a company which offers short term furnished apartments in 18 different Boston apartment...

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MIT Ph.D. Automates Hub Triple Decker

72 Downer Ave, Dorchester.   Shortly after closing on his first investment property located at 72 Downer Avenue, Dorchester,* MIT Ph.D. Michael Propp engaged an architect and contractor to update and...

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Soft Hub Rental Market Provokes Free Rent Offers and Concerns

While spanking new apartment buildings are popping up almost everywhere in the Hub, it appears prospective tenants aren’t. Asked to assess the Hub’s rental market, Keri Walker, senior vice president...

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Key Differences Between Millennium Place and Millennium Tower

There’s a big, big reason – a towering, but not-so-secret justification – why Millennium Place owners are selling their precious condominiums in a building and association they love. One Millennium...

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Expert Provides Update on Boston’s Luxury and Emerging Markets

Debra Taylor, who launched LINK (the Urban MLS) approximately 25 years ago in Boston, invited a select group of real estate agents to the Millennium Tower sales office and revealed the latest...

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Three Boston Condo Developments You Should Visit Before They Sell Out

  The new Boston is sure to have an enhanced skyline, re-imagined neighborhoods, and an improved quality of life.  The three developments described below might be considered ambitious, game-changers,...

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Why Via and The Benjamin Will Change Life in the Seaport

The Seaport had already been attracting many of the city’s most exciting new restaurants, in vogue hotels, expensive condominium projects and, of course, its most prized corporate tenants. What...

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Boston’s Most Important Condo Sale in 2016

(This is #1 of my three part series: The Most Important Condo Sales of 2016) At 60 stories and 625 feet above street level, it was going to be the highest condo in Boston. At a list price of $37.5...

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Is This The Most Successful Building in the History of Boston?

When we first did [Millennium] Place,” recalls Richard Baumert, 52, a partner at Millennium Partners, “I was told by my marketing people that the absorption rate for a building like this is anywhere...

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Why No One Should Be Surprised at $40 Million Back Bay Sale

The Four Seasons Condominiums, currently under construction in Back Bay, recently revealed that one of the residences may be under agreement for $40 million. No one should be surprised. The last time...

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B&T and Bisnow Boston Report on my Millennium Tower Boston Special Report

On April 11th, Banker and Tradesman, The Financial Services and Real Estate Weekly for Massachusetts wrote about my Millennium Tower Boston Special Report. Here’s part of what they had to say: “There’s...

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Developer’s Projects Take Contradictory Stands on the Value of Boston Parking

  Related Beal is very publicly in the midst of developing Boston living spaces without parking. At the same time, and somewhat less widely-known, they are also developing Boston parking without...

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The Incredible Floor Plan and Extraordinary Cost of Boston’s Biggest Luxury...

  “This is just one unit?” asked my architect friend, somewhat awestruck as he scanned the incredible floor plan of the Millennium Tower Boston Grand Penthouse, a document I had secured by searching...

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