Opinion
Tune In, Tune Out Presidential Bluster
So there I was last week, watching the new batch of ABC’s Wednesday night comedy block, when up popped this great new laugh-a-minute mini-series.It’s called the Presidential Debates. Maybe you heard about it?
A Familiar Mess
Corporate Boston had better brace for a lot more than overflowing trash and dirty bathrooms if Hub janitors hit the picket lines this fall.
Circular Filing Filene’s Name
The hallowed Filene’s name is about to get rubbed off Boston’s map – all in the name of progress and new development, of course.
Age-Old Problems Plague Overbuilt Senior Housing Market
The darling of real estate investors during dark times, is senior housing in danger of getting overbuilt?
When developers of the caliber of Tom Grape, Robert Larkin and Larry Gerber start to sound the alarm, it is definitely worth listening.
Airing Boston Marriott’s Dumb, Dirty Laundry
Anyone who thinks you can be completely clueless and still successfully run a major city hotel should consider carefully the dustup over the Boston Marriott Copley Place’s $18 million renovation.
The Big Pig
Just call it the $21 billion Big Pig. Five years after the cash-sucking tunnel and highway project formally concluded, we have little to show for the so-called Big Dig other than a short stretch of leaky tunnels underneath Boston and a second-rate, under-funded park above it
Sun Setting On Mohegan
There’s really no other way to put it: Mohegan Sun blew it with its fumbling pursuit of the prized casino license for Western Massachusetts, and now looks just about done as a serious contender.
Gutted House Bill Doesn’t Give Power To The People
Beacon Hill wants to let you know it is getting tough on Massachusetts’ fat-cat power companies after last fall’s catastrophic outages. Don’t believe it for a minute.
Rising Water, Rising Worries
Boston and other East Coast cities can rewrite all the building codes they want as they scramble to meet the challenge of ominously rising sea levels. But what good are hardier, more flood resistant high-rises if no one wants to rent offices or buy condos in these buildings anymore?
Mass. Realtors Exhibit Short Memories
If Realtors here in Massachusetts have their way, Mitt Romney will carry our traditionally liberal state by a landslide in the fall with more than 70 percent of the vote, according to a recent HomeGain poll of real estate agents across the commonwealth.
Fading Into Obscurity
Boston’s ailing Financial District looks more irrelevant by the day, a ghostly monument to the stifling corporate bureaucracies of the 1970s. The question now is not whether it’s dead, but who killed it? And can this beached whale be revived, or is it simply fated to slowly rot away while other downtown Boston neighborhoods sparkle?
Rising In The East Setting In The West
All real estate markets are not created equal, especially here in the Bay State. Wealth and power traditionally flow east on the Massachusetts Turnpike, not west. And with the real estate market finally moving into “recovery†mode, the same dynamic is once again at work.
Rectifying The FHA’s Misplaced Priorities
The real estate market is rebounding in the Bay State amid a surge in sales and rising hopes for a turnaround in battered home prices. But instead of starting to wind down its massive intervention into a now healing market, one major federal agency is actually expanding its footprint into higher-end housing deals.
.Com Changes?
So, who's excited about the imminent top-level domain changes? Anybody? Bueller? Well, Realtors, for one. Or at least, the National Association of Realtors is. The "top level domains" are the three all important letters that come after the last dot of a website's...
Sellers’ Hearts of Darkness?
CoreLogic came out with its quarterly MarketPulse today, and the report went deep on the impact of negative equity on the real estate recovery. According to CoreLogic, the months’ supply of unsold homes was down to 6.5 in April, the lowest mark in more than five...
Time For Yet Another Google Freak Out?
Sydicated Columnist Bernice Ross has an interesting colum this week speculating on the possible consequences for real estate of recent changes to how Google does searches. (Ross' column is behind a paywall, but marketer Erik Goldhar covers many of the same bases...
Growing Affluence Tearing Down Middle Market
After taking a break during the recession, gentrification is back with a vengeance in Greater Boston, as middle-class capes and ranches get bulldozed in increasing numbers to make room for ever-larger homes.
Say Goodbye To Short-Lived Buyers’ Market
Here’s betting on a V-shaped recovery for home prices here in Massachusetts.
Bruins’ Owner Built Championship Team But Not Towers
Excuses, excuses and more excuses. That pretty much sums up the history of billionaire Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs’ halfhearted attempts to transform the area around North Station and the TD Garden into the center of a commercial, retail and residential megaplex.
Understanding What The Client’s Not Saying
Shannon Haines oversees some 500,000 square feet of office space as the new leasing agent and property manager for Cummings Properties’ TradeCenter 128 office campus in Woburn, a position she has held for the last five months. That’s not an easy feat for even the most seasoned leasing veteran, let alone one with Haines’ level of prior property management experience – none.
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