Real Estate
How's The Market?
“How’s the market, Bill?” This is the question that I hear most when I tell people I’m a broker. And the answer is, well, it […]
Testing Menino's Business Resource Center, Part III
My last two blog posts (here and here) have provided some ideas about some key aspects of the Mayor’s initiative to reform the permitting process. […]
Arriving at Mid-Century Modern Lexington
I moved to Lexington from Somerville in my mid-20s. I went kicking and screaming. But my band, Buffalo Tom, had just started to make some […]
Testing Menino's Business Resource Center, Part I
Mayor Menino’s new budget proposal included the intriguing commitment to create a “one-stop shop” for small business permitting. The state has long strived to create […]
Buffalo Tom & Songs About Home
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night? With his plaintive, yearning voice, Jimmie Dale Gilmore asked this musical question with his legendary […]
Buffalo Tom & Songs About Home
Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night? With his plaintive, yearning voice, Jimmie Dale Gilmore asked this musical question with his legendary […]
No High Hopes for Menino's New BRA Chief
In appointing Peter Meade as the new BRA director, Mayor Menino exposes his deeply cynical soul. How a city gets shaped according to Menino has […]
Best Places to Live in Greater Boston
Whatever your stage of life, here’s where to look for your first, next, or last home.
On the Market: 9 Brimmer Street
An inside look at a townhouse for aspiring aristocrats.
Real Estate: Modern History
A rare opportunity awaits at Six Moon Hill.
Best Places to Live 2010: Buy, Sell, Hold, or Rent?
Should you join the ranks of the homeowning? Is now the time to sell that too-small condo? The completely unsatisfying answer to that question is…it […]
Best Places to Live 2010: How to Get a Mortgage (Now)
While the process is not quite as invasive as a Logan Airport body scan, the rules are pretty stringent. Here, some simple advice for navigating the new reality.
Best Places to Live 2010
The ultimate guide for every kind of house hunter.
A Certain Investment in Uncertain Times
With the economy in uncharted territory, we’ve pretty much given up hope of ever securing enough credit to buy our own home. But that doesn’t […]
Dane Cook Tries to Save His Apartment and His Muse
And we thought Jason Giambi’s slump-busting thong was a weird superstition. Dane Cook, who was evicted from his Hollywood apartment after he refused to clean […]