Uncategorized Artist Inaki Aliste Lizarralde recreated floorplans from hit TV shows including Friends, The Simpsons, and Dexter. See the link below from Mashable. http://mashable.com/2013/03/12/tv-show-apartment-floorplans/ Read More »
Increased Home Sales Taxes for MA. Thanks Deval
Real Estate News The Governor is about to raise taxes again for gains on home sales. Boston.com states tax hit on average of roughly $4200 for the average seller. Full article here. Read More »
Private Rooftop Bar and Bathroom Walled with Wine Cases. We Love It.
Featured Listing Curbed Boston just published an amazing Beacon Hill Condo listing from Coldwell Banker, which can be seen from the link below. Beautiful finishes, and great creativity, especially with the bathroom walls covered in old wine cases. See it here. Read More »
Liberty Hotel SOLD. Highest Price Per Room in Years
Real Estate News One of our favorite hotels and nightlife spots in the city just sold a majority interest to LaSalle Hotel Properties, according to the Boston Herald. Full Text Here. Read More »
Billboards and condos need not apply on #BeaconHill
Real Estate News As we reported yesterday new billboards have been banned from Beacon Hill and other posh ‘hoods in Boston and today thanks to John Ford we hear that the vaunted Beacon Hill Civic Association has declined a simple request “Amid concerns about the precedent it would set for future residential development in the neighborhood” to convert [...] Read More »
Real estate broker steps up to replace stolen Christmas trees for charity
Living In Boston Waltham real estate broker Patricia Villani has offered to donate $800 replace a dozen Christmas trees intended for charity but were stolen last weekend. WBZ reports: Over the weekend, thieves broke into a West Roxbury supply store and stole trees owner Al Todesca planned to sell and donate the money to local children’s hospitals. Villani, [...] Read More »
Cool #Dorchester map, can #Allston get one too?
Living In Boston If you know anyone OFD, The Dorchester Reporter has the perfect gift tip: If you’re a Dorchester-phile (and if you’re reading this, you probably are), then you have to get a look at the map that a man named Ed McCarthy has created depicting our neighborhood. The map — which McCarthy has sold one-by-one to [...] Read More »
Is #Provincetown the state’s murder capital?
Living In Boston This is the reason real estate agents don’t comment on crime rates. According to the Boston Business Journal, Provincetown is the state’s murder capital. Really? Read More »
City bans new billboards for Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Financial District and Kenmore Square
Real Estate News The City of Boston banned new billboards in the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Financial District and Kenmore Square, according to the Boston Herald: The Zoning Commission unanimously passed an amendment this morning that will prohibit the signs in those neighborhoods to preserve their residential and historical aesthetics. New signs in some industrial areas of South [...] Read More »
Harvard Mag: It stinks to be you, #Allston
Living In Boston It stinks to be you, Allston. Harvard Magazine: October filing of a new Institutional Master Plan Notification Form (IMPNF), describing projects it hopes to build in Allston during the next decade, marked the formal withdrawal of the grandiose plans for a new campus described in a similar submission in January 2007. Gone are the reconfigured [...] Read More »



