real estate
What Happens to Our City, a Realtor Asks, If Only the Rich Can Live Here?
By Michael Foley Consider yourself lucky if you’re not looking for an apartment rental in the Boston area. Rental properties in the city, and most of its neighborhoods, are virtually 100% full! I have been renting properties in Boston since 1985 and I have never seen it anywhere near this tight! In the price range under $2,500 there [...]
News Notes – March 17
BU alumnus among missing NYT journalists in Libya by Josh Cain/BU Daily Free Press – Mar 16, 2011 Four New York Times reporters covering the violence in Libya have gone missing, The Times reported on Wednesday on its website. Among them is Tyler Hicks, a Times war photographer and Boston University alumnus who graduated with [...]
News Notes – February 2
Landmark Center sells for $530.5M By Herald Staff – February 1, 2011 The Abbey Group announced today that it has sold Landmark Center, the 950,000 square foot office/retail development in the Fenway, to a joint venture between JP Morgan Investment Management Inc. and Samuels & Associates for $530.5 million. For decades known as the Sears [...]
News Notes – January 8
Paul Levy’s exit cheered by women’s groups – Beth Israel chief dogged by scandal By Christine McConville and Joe Dwinell/Boston Herald – January 8, 2011 Bay State women’s advocates are saying “about time” to Beth Israel honcho Paul Levy after he abruptly announced his resignation yesterday in the wake of a swirling scandal involving a [...]
News Notes – December 30
A First Night to remember By Marie Szaniszlo and Colneth Smiley Jr./Boston Herald – December 29, 201 The Hub is set to welcome more than 1 million New Year’s Eve revelers with music, dancing, ice sculptures — and a “significant presence” of police, BPD Commissioner Edward Davis said yesterday. “We’re completely focused on making sure [...]
News Notes – October 13
Judge quizzes witness who said he won’t testify in Turner trial – Jury selection set in bribery case By Jonathan Saltzman – Globe Staff / October 13, 2010 On the eve of the much-anticipated corruption trial of Councilor Chuck Turner, a federal judge yesterday questioned the government’s key witness about reports that he will refuse [...]
News Notes – August 30
Students stranded by off-campus housing By Natalie Sherman/Boston Herald – August 30, 2010 For Boston, a city with a rental rate about twice the national average, the harried mess of the massive Sept. 1 college lease turnover is practically an annual tradition. But students say the tight Sept. 1 deadline creates more problems than just [...]
News Notes – August 26
Student appeals award of $67,500 – Record labels seeking even more: $675,000 By Jonathan Saltzman – Globe Staff / August 26, 2010 A Boston University graduate student is appealing a federal judge’s order that he pay four record labels $67,500 in damages for illegally downloading music, even though the amount is only a tenth of [...]
News Notes – August 10 – Ramadan begins after sunset
Deal reached in MIT fraternity prank – Two burned in blast get undisclosed sum By Alex Katz – Globe Correspondent / August 10, 2010 Nearly three years after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology fraternity prank caused an explosion that severely injured two environmental cleanup volunteers, a six-figure settlement has been reached, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said [...]
News Notes – August 5
Developer pitches vision for Fenway – Mixed-use project would create vital district, he says By Bonnie Kavoussi – Globe Correspondent / August 5, 2010 A Boston developer is planning to build apartments, underground parking, and retail and office space in the Fenway — the latest in a string of proposals to revitalize the neighborhood. Samuels [...]