We all know how much of a beautiful city Boston is. Its differentiating forms of architecture hailing from various countries and time periods, the beautiful parks and green spaces, not to mention the quaint and relaxing atmosphere that commonly is associated with the city. All of these make for the perfect recipe for a city …
Boston Real Estate News: Boston Ripe for Market Rebound
When there are price fluctuations of roughly 3% or even less, that is a great reason for one to speculate that the market is in a stabilization stage. This notion, along with much more detail, was shared by the President and Founder of Local Market Monitor, Ingo Winzer. He discusses certain metropolitan locations that are …
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Real Estate News: Top 10 Green Building Trends in 2012
Going into 2012 and the future it is becoming increasingly vital to ensure that our buildings are up to the times following the latest green building trends. Not only does conforming to the green building codes increase your image in the community, it saves you money and ultimately helps save the planet. The hope is …
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Boston’s 12 Most Visited Tourist Attractions (according to Foursquare)
If you could imagine the twelve most visited tourist attractions in Boston, what would you guess made the list? There are many ways of measuring this, of course, however the rankings determined by the social media application known as Foursquare gave us some great results. Foursquare is a system that allows individuals to check-in at …
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Sotheby’s International Realty Expands to San Miguel, Mexico
As we discussed in an earlier post, the Sothebys International Realty brand extended its increasing global reach by adding Milan Sothebys International Realty to its roughly 12,000 associates within 590 offices and 44 countries and territorys worldwide. Sothebys is always looking to expand their influence of excellence worldwide whenever the right opportunity comes about. This …
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113th Anniversary for Animal Rescue League of Boston
The Animal Rescue League of Boston recently celebrated their one hundred and thirteenth year anniversary as of February 7th, 2012! The ARL has been helping animals since 1899 under their original phrase used by founder Anna Harris Smith, Kindness Uplifts the World; and from seeing how far the organization has come, we can say it …
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Boston Charities: Pine Street Inn, hopeFound Merger
Fascinatingly enough, many nonprofits nationwide do not often merge. However, two Boston based charities have gone outside of the norm. With over seventy years of experience combined, Pine Street Inn and hopeFound, the two main Boston-based organizations fighting against homelessness, have joined forces. This combination of minds and talents does not, surprisingly enough, mean there …
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Boston University’s Master Plan: 9 Projects, 10 Years
Boston University is doing everything that it can to ensure that its facilities are up to date with the lofty expectations that any world-class University would have. Just recently they announced their plans to either build or renovate various plots of their one hundred and twelve acre territory spread throughout the city. In The Fenway …
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Real Estate News: Low Housing Inventory Shows Pent Up Buyer Demand
We are seeing it in the Boston and Greater Boston neighborhoods. Buyers are coming in droves to open houses to tour the low number of properties that are currently on the market.In some cases there have been 20, 30 or more parties reported having come through a Sunday open house, even with buyers waiting at …
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Boston Conservatory Purchases $5.1 Million Fenway-Facing Building
How thrilling would it be to be one of the 730 lucky students at the Boston Conservatory studying music less than a block away from historic Fenway Park! This idea may soon come to fruition as on January 17th of 2012, the Conservatory announced its $5.1 million purchase of a one-story warehouse located at 132 …
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