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....
View ArticleThree 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSlick 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...
View ArticleBreaking 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...
View ArticleBillowing 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...
View ArticleCompany 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...
View ArticleMIT 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...
View ArticleSoft 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...
View ArticleKey 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...
View ArticleExpert 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...
View ArticleThree 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,...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleBoston’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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleB&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...
View ArticleDeveloper’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...
View ArticleThe 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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