Are you one of those people who loves looking inside other people’s homes, just to see how they live? If so, Apartment Therapy comes to the rescue with pictures of several inspiring Boston homes. Take a look:
Arlington Bungalow.
Jamaica Plain condo.
North End condo
Check out more eye candy at the Apartment Therapy website, where you can take [...]
What can you find in the North End for $450,000? Here’s what’s currently on the market:
120 Commercial Street, #1-2
North End
BEDS:2/BATHS:1
SQ.FT: 1,135
$449,000
PROS: The unit is a duplex located close to the waterfront.
CONS: The condo fee is on the high side and the configuration of the windows can feel a bit suffocating.
105 Prince Street, #4
BEDS:2/BATHS:1
SQ.FT: 750
$429,000
PROS: This [...]
Once you’ve found a home you love, bought furniture, gotten to know your neighbors, repainted your walls and invested in art… well, many of us start feeling like we need something else to complete the warm and fuzzy domestic picture. Most often, that picture doesn’t feel finished unless there’s a warm and fuzzy pet in the scene — that [...]
Foreclosure looms over the landscape like a black cloud. But there is one group, purportedly, that is profiting big time from the thousands of foreclosed properties now on the market. Savvy homebuyers, ostensibly, can recognize a good deal when they see one and profit handsomely by buying a foreclosed home at a rock bottom price.
But is [...]
Continuing our series on what you get for $450K in the city of Boston, this week, we’re looking at the Back Bay.
377 Marlborough Street, #1
Back Bay
BEDS:1/BATHS:1
SQ.FT: 605
$439,000
PROS: There’s a private patio and the building is pet-friendly.
CONS: The unit is a “garden-level” one.
146 Marlborough Street, #8
Back Bay
BEDS:1/BATHS:1
SQ.FT: 569
$439,900
PROS: The unit faces south and gets good light.
CONS: [...]
So you’re looking for a home in the $450,000 range in Boston? Here’s what you’ll find on the market now for slightly below or above that price:
70 Northampton Street, #105
South End
BEDS:1/BATHS:1
SQ.FT: 1775
$464,000
PROS: This loft boasts lots of space, high ceilings, and lots of light.
CONS: Garage parking is an extra $30,000, and this part of the [...]
In recent years, American real estate has attracted Europeans eager to cash in on a slumping real estate prices and a rising Euro. But a whole new group of buyers are now cashing in on unprecedented buying opportunities in U.S. real estate. In China, one of the most popular tour group packages has become the home-buying trip to [...]
As housing prices and sales have fallen over the past year, there have been some neighborhoods that have stood out for going in the opposite direction. Towns like Wellesley and Weston have actually experienced price increases in 2008. Towns like Newton and Brookline have seen price drops but by far less than other towns around Massachusetts. [...]
You can pick up a good deal beyond Wal-Mart and Marshall’s these days.
Just check out the luxury real estate market.
According to an article in yesterday’s Boston Herald, extremely high-end luxury prices worth millions of dollars are plunging in value.
How’s this for a bargain? The owners of a faux French chateau on Smith’s Point Road in Manchester-by-the-Sea have chopped [...]
