In looking at November 2008 sales statistics for downtown Boston, the number of listings that sold in the month has decreased substantially from the same time period in 2007, while prices flashed various signals in different market segments, both up and down. The downtown Boston market slowed (in terms of number of units sold) year [...]

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Some say that Boston’s South End condo market has “slowed down”. After taking a look at the data over the past 5 years, we’ll let you be the judge of that. [Read More: Click Here]

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As we wind into the final months of the summer real estate season, we wanted to take a look at what happened over the past month specific to sales to list price ratio (i.e. the sales price represents what percentage of the list price). If the value is equal to 100%, a Buyer offered full [...]

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Our analysis of average price per square foot values in downtown Boston neighborhoods continues with Boston’s Beacon Hill, one of the most prestigious areas of the city to call home. Beacon Hill prices command a premium over some of the other neighborhoods that we have looked at, however, prices are in line with such neighborhoods [...]

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Our analysis of average price per square foot values in downtown Boston neighborhoods continues with Boston’s North End. Price per square foot, as we will see, is in line with the rest of the city, however, the one significant difference that we are seeing year on year with the North End is the number of [...]

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As we turn towards the second half of the year, and Sellers deliberate listing their condos for sale, one of the questions we receive most often revolves around what a realistic price per square foot is in various downtown Boston neighborhoods. This type of information is also very useful for Buyers to have as well, [...]

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The Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB) recently published seven talking points regarding the Boston (specifically “greater” Boston, which involves suburbs outside the core downtown) real estate market. All of them are quite interesting, and could be approached and/or discussed from many angles. Here they are: The past year was the fifth best on record [...]

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We recently received some year-end positive comments from readers, with one of them inquiring if we can spend a little bit more time on a go-forward basis covering Boston condos that are less than $500,000. This is definitely a fair request, and we will strive to cover interesting Boston condo happenings, regardless of price points, [...]

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Thanks to John Keith for pointing out that the Trulia Blog is passing out some warm and fuzzy news about the Boston real estate market. According to the Trulia September 2007 Trends Report, the downtown Boston market is experiencing year-on-year gains in home prices. Median sales price in Back Bay is up 18.2 percent over [...]

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In a Wall Street Journal article today entitled ‘Steep Home-Price Drop Stirs Fears’, Kelly Evans finally spent some time covering the concept that all of the press, statistics, and news that continue to hit the market regarding housing prices across the country may not be entirely applicable to city centers such as New York and [...]

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