VITA is moving into a neighborhood that offers more single family, row houses and three family homes in a variety of styles in Jamaica Plain, but doesn't offer too many high rises with full-service amenities. Many neighborhoods in Boston, and outside of Boston are seeing concierge buildings moving into the neighborhood. JP is now seeing concierge condo Continue Reading
Boston to DC
Easy Travel Boston to DC Several years I had the opportunity to spend time in our Nation Capitol. There are many great things about Boston and Washington DC and it starts with getting to DC from Boston. Washington DC is a very quick trip coming from Boston MA. Regardless if you decide to hop on the train or fly its a very easy trip. Flying to Washington is the fastest. Reagan Continue Reading
Gibson Sotheby’s Expands Market Share to serve clients better
Gibson Sotheby's expands market share Gibson Domain Domain was founded in 1962 and remained Gibson Domain till the close of 2005, and prior to it becoming part of the Sotheby's family, Gibson Domain had offices in South End, Back Bay, Dorchester, and South Boston. In 12 years Gibson Sotheby's has gone from having 4 offices to expanding to 11 offices to better serve our clients and expand our Continue Reading
Echelon New Development Seaport District
Another new development is moving into Seaport District called Echelon. Echelon Seaport is developed by Celona Capital and Cottonwood management and designed by CBT Architects. This New Development moving into the seaport district called Echelon will consist of three mixed-use towers with 1.3 million square feet on 3.5 acres in the seaport district. There will be 717 Continue Reading
The Pierce Building in Fenway
The Pierce Building is the tallest building west of downtown. This 340-foot tall building located in Fenway by Samuels & Associates and Landsea developed and Arquitectonica designed offers 109 Condos and 240 apartments along with 20,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. The Pierce Building offers one to three bedrooms that are 612-2,684 square feet. Three bedrooms are on market Continue Reading
Massachusetts Big Issue
Massachusetts has a big issue and if you call Massachusetts home you know whether your looking to rent or buy the word expensive is an accurate way of describing our housing situation. One might be wondering why we are so expensive and there are many reasons why it's expensive to live in the state of Massachusetts. One reason is it's expensive and difficult to build in Massachusetts with local and Continue Reading
New Smoke Requirements for single and two family homes
If you are someone who owns a one or two family home you might want to make sure your property has the new smoke requirements especially if you plan to sell in 2017. The Board of Fire Prevention Regulations adopted a revised smoke alarm regulations that go into effect Dec 1st, 2016. The change applies only to one and two family residence built before January 1st, 1975 that have not been Continue Reading
2015 Economic Expectations
I recently attended The Greater Boston Real Estate Board Economic Expectations Seminar which talked about what to expect in 2015, and it was interesting what was mentioned. At the Economic Expectations at the Federal Reserve building in downtown Boston, there were two experts that spoke Michael D Goodman and David Stiff. Michael D Goodman is a professor at UMass Dartmouth who is an associate Continue Reading
