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So there’s been a lot of buzz in the market about the American Brewery Lofts. This is because 21 of the 79 original units are being auctioned on Saturday, June 26th at the Colonnade Hotel, for as much as 57% below the original asking price. The lofts are RIGHT on the border of Mission Hill and Jamaica Plain (Velocity Marketing Services, the company handling the ABL’s marketing, which, for the record, I think is inadequate, would have you believe that the address, 251 Heath St., is in the trendier, Boston-Globe-endorsed …
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I’m sitting in my office and it’s thundering like mad and pouring rain on this Tuesday evening, so it’s a little hard to imagine a lavish Cape Cod resort filled with vacationers (Yankees if they’re not from MA), but this article felt like a nice fit for a day-after-Memorial-Day post.
Globe correspondent Robert Preer posted this article about a week ago, so I bet these resorts are really back into full swing after the big Memorial Day boost. Here are a few excerpts to give you an idea of what this …
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By John Gittelsohn and Peter Woodifield – Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Toll Brothers Buys Land as Quarterly Home Orders Rise
May 26 (Bloomberg) — Toll Brothers Inc., the largest U.S. luxury homebuilder, increased its land holdings for the first time in four years in anticipation of a recovery in the market.
The number of houses under contract but not yet sold rose in the three months ended April 30 for the first time on a year- over-year basis since 2006, the Horsham, Pennsylvania-based company said in an earnings statement today.
“People are not as scared any …
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By Patrick Rall of the Detroit Auto Examiner. Published April 30th, 2010 @ 12:35pm
Ford Motor Company announced this morning that the city of Boston has become the first municipality to approve the Transit Connect for commercial taxi use. Now that the Transit Connect is approved, taxi companies can now begin purchasing and licensing the innovative new ‘truck’ so Ford can expect to see a boom in TC sales. Not only does this stand to help sales through Boston based cabbies, but it also sets precedent for other cities to approve …
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For tips and explanations 1-10 for home-buying, click here, to go to Ami Albernaz’s article on boston.com, but first, here are the headlines:
1.) GET YOUR FINANCING IN ORDER
2.) UNDERSTAND YOUR TIME HORIZON
3.) KNOW THE OVERALL MARKET CONDITIONS
4.) SEARCH AND BUY WITHIN YOUR MEANS
5.) IF YOU’RE WAITING FOR PRICES TO GO LOWER, YOU MIGHT WANT TO THINK AGAIN
6.) DON’T GET TOO SUCKED IN BY APPEARANCES
7.) HAVE QUESTIONS PREPARED
8.) IF YOU’RE BUYING A CONDO, KNOW THE RULES
9.) IF YOU’RE THINKING OF BUYING A BRAND NEW HOUSE…
10.) THINK ABOUT A HOME’S INTRINSIC VALUE
Tip …
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by Diana Burell courtesy of The Luxist
When you step into the reception area of The Spa at Mandarin Oriental, Boston, a 16,000-square-foot day spa four floors above busy Boylston Street, you can’t help but leave your stress at the door. The soothing sound of the Asian-inspired wall fountain and the tantalizing aroma of the spa’s signature scent, Quintessence, wafting gently through the air banish any thought of the mundane world below you. You’re greeted and presented with a beverage specially selected for the season — a warming cup of herbal …
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Textaurant aims to improve how we wait for our tables at restaurants. As opposed to waiting in a stuffy room for your name to be called or hanging on to one of those weird coaster-like transponders until it vibrates, Textaurant utilizes web-to-mobile technologies to send patrons a text message alert when their table is ready.
Working directly with a restaurant’s hosting station computer, the web-based waiting list management service works automatically when a hungry patron gives the host or hostess their cell phone number, and is sent a text message notification …
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Irish Bank’s ex-CEO Takes Refuge in Cape Cod
David K. Drumm is an aggressive business man; In the 1990’s Drumm was dispatched to Boston by the Anglo Irish Bank with the task of securing commercial loans. His aggressive business strategies lead to his financing of numerous commercial properties around Boston including The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Fan Pier, 200 State Street, and 265 Franklin Street, and in doing so he became a major player in Boston’s commercial real estate market. Success in Boston sent Drumm back to Dublin in 2005 as the …
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Home and Garden Television, HGTV, is looking for first-time home buyers from the Boston area to star in one of their most popular series’, “My First Place.”
My First Place follows a set of first-time buyers and their real estate agent along the stress-filled, yet exciting, search for the perfect home. It’s a fun, fast-paced show, covering the home search, inspection, financing and closing processes.
One behalf of The Boston Herald, please contact John Keith, manager of The Boston Herald’s real estate blog, Getting Real.
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So Apple launched the iPad, then it was delayed for a while, but now it’s here. What does this mean for the real estate industry? Well, to start, we’ve got apps from the Z’s: Zillow and ZipRealty
The Zillow app is a photo-driven app that puts good use to the multi-touch screen and let’s users search a large map where they can touch to zoom into neighborhoods and cities. Once in a particular neighborhood you can flip through photographs of homes in that area, compare them side by side, and drag …
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In yesterday’s press release The Seaport Hotel of Boston announced that they will be offering their overnight guests complementary charging and valet parking for their electric or hybrid cars through 2010 in honor of Earth Month. This announcement also marks Boston’s first ever car charging station, located at the ever-eco-friendly Seaport.
Boston’s Chief of Environmental and Energy Service, Jim Hunt, had this to say after the announcement, “This is a fitting addition to the Seaport’s growing list of green initiatives it has undertaken since opening its doors. To have businesses in …
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Peter Wolf sits in his Back Bay condo chatting it up with The Herald’s Jim Sullivan for an interview. He’s dressed in all black as usual, surrounded by a treasure trove of CD’s, LP’s, and books. You remember Peter Wolf, frontman for Boston’s own J. Geils Band? Well now he’s working on his own album, “Midnight Souvenirs,” the sixth installment in the Boston-legends post-J. Geils career, an album over four years in the making.
Wolf is 64 years old and still going strong, performing, both solo and with J. Geils, and …
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CALLING ALL GRAD STUDENTS STUDYING REAL ESTATE IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA!
“The Alumni Association of the MIT Center for Real Estate (AACRE) is hosting a graduate real estate case competition at the Prudential Center in Boston, MA on April 15 from 6:00‐7:30pm. Unlike other invitation only events, the MIT competition is open to graduate students of any accredited MSRED, MBA or MFIN program. Teams of three to four full-time graduate students will be receiving a broker’s packet for a building or development site and will be given two days to …
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Do you like chocolate? Do you crave chocolate? Well if you’re a chocolate fiend try and do your best to stay away from ChocoLee Chocolates, which just reopened at their new location in the South End! Why am I telling you to avoid ChocoLee? Well, one piece, and you just might get hooked.
Chef Lee Napoli (get it, Choco-Lee?) is a renowned pastry chef who has worked in Boston for 30 years at esteemed restaurants like Maison Robert, Anago, Metro, Bricco, The Buttery, and Sandrine’s Bistro. Chef Lee has received many …
