Category Archives: Boston

David Bates real estate blog, The Bates Real Estate Report, recently published this chart which displays the selling price ranges for four neighborhoods in Boston for the first half of 2014.I wish David had plotted all of Boston’s downtown neighborhoods as well as surrounding communities like Central and Harvard Square and Brookline.  However, it is interesting all the same.

My neighborhood, South End, appears to top out around $655k – 1.24m for condo sales.  No wonder people feel the need to move out of Boston to find more affordable housing.

If you live in the area and follow the real estate market, this is a blog you might want to bookmark.

Every city has its own traditions and Boston is no exception. Ranking right up there with the Red Sox home opener, Patriot’s Day (a.k.a. Boston Marathon), and the Head of the Charles (which is technically more of a Cambridge thing) is September 1st.

The universities that call this city home have shaped Boston’s reputation and play a major part in forming our identity. Literally tens of thousands of students have returned to Boston this weekend and along with them came moving cars, vans and trucks of all sizes.

The upside to this temporary insanity is that Boston (which is a sleepy hamlet from early May through August) suddenly jolts back to life. No city (but especially one as tiny as Boston) can ignore the impact these students have on city life. They revive the nightlife, crowd the restaurants and fill the sidewalks.  While I am not ready to say goodbye to summer, the students have returned and it is the start of another academic year.

The Boston Globe reported this week that since the MBTA began their one year trial of late night MBTA service that keeps subways and some bus routes open until 3AM has already exceeded 400,000 trips.

Each weekend the MBTA averages between 15,000 to 17,000 trips, dispelling critiques complaints that the Late Night service was a novelty that would see the city’s late night service wane and run with empty subways and buses.

Heading out late this weekend? The MBTA remains the most affordable way to get around.