It’s about time to reassess what’s on the Boston market through Euro lenses. So here’s the rundown on a few new properties that have recently come on the market:
115 Chandler Street, #1
South End
BEDS:2/BATHS:1.5
SQ.FT: 1265 or 117 square meters
$699,000 or 482,701 Euro
It’s a parlor level duplex with a woodburning fireplace and recently updated bathrooms. It’s also [...]
Last week the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — nestled in the Fenway just a stone’s throw from the Museum of Fine Arts — unveiled a design for an ambitious $118 million expansion. The new addition, created by Italian architect Renzo Piano, is an impressive glass and copper-clad affair that will be completed in early 2012, [...]
Slump or no slump, seems like Boston is destined to remain pretty darn expensive when it comes to housing. The average cost of a Back Bay condo in 2009 was $1,027,000. In the South End, it took close to a million dollars ($793,000) to snap up your average condo. Other city neighborhoods, like Beacon Hill and [...]
Buying a place for less than $200K was just a cruel fantasy a couple of years back. But not any more. Perusing the housing listings, we’re finding more and more units for less than $200K. We’re seeing these places in a number of neighborhoods, but the best value seems to be in Brighton, where you [...]
With the recession raging, fewer and fewer of us are opting to move. In fact, last year, the nation’s mobility rate fell to its lowest point since World War II. Reasons, according to the analysts, include fewer jobs to move to, along with long-term demographic changes — like an aging population and more dual-career couples.
We at MondoBoston can’t help [...]
Are you a Sri Lankan living and working in Boston? Do you kind of miss home? Well you’re in luck. You can meet other Sri Lankans (as well as Moroccans, Italians, Brazilians, Japanese, French, Germans, etc.) who are also living and working in Boston simply by joining the new online networking community called InterNations. Billing itself as [...]
Recently, we wrote about the national renovation trend which has seen an uptick in people embarking on renovation projects. It seems that as more people figure they’re not going to sell, they’re making their current homes livable. They’re taking on smaller renovation projects and paying in cash. Now Money Magazine adds another caution for those hoping [...]
As 2009 draws to a close, predictions for next year’s housing market are already coming in. And here’s a big one from Fortune Magazine: Although home prices and sales have improved in Massachusetts (with sales up by 59 percent in November 2009 compared to November 2008) there is still more to go before we hit [...]
