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9/18/2020 In Boston, a Developer Is Turning His Childhood Home Into $1 Million Condos—The Wall Street Journal

Frank Williams stands in a townhouse he is converting to condos in Boston’s South End, gesturing toward a newly installed steam shower with Zebra-stripe marble. “This was the closet,” he says, then pointing to a double vanity, adds, “There were bunk beds here.”
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9/17/2020 Space Race: Investors and Developers Rethink Parking Garages Amid COVID—Commercial Observer

The fourth-tallest building in the United States north of New York City is going up on the site of what until 2018 was the largest municipally owned parking garage in Boston.
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9/17/2020 On the Market: A Covetable Top-Floor Coop in Dorchester—Boston Magazine

If you want to fall in love at first sight, visit this St. Marks home during golden hour.
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9/14/2020 A Newport man rented his condo out while he recovered from surgery in Florida. Now he can’t get his tenant to leave.—South Coast Today

David Hurd had some serious health issues last year, including a scooter accident and blocked arteries that required a quadruple bypass. But it is the coronavirus that has the 77-year-old red with rage — and he doesn’t even have it.
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9/14/2020 7Investigates: Faulty elevators may put lives at risk—WHDH 7 News

Robert Kulunis still remembers his brother Randall’s singing.
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9/14/2020 Dakota Partners Closes on Depot Village in Hanson, MA—Boston Real Estate Times

Dakota Partners recently secured all financing and approvals needed to close on the property at 171 Phillips St in Hanson, MA. Construction on the new affordable housing development, Depot Village, commenced in spring 2020.
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9/11/2020 Mass. Eviction Halt Can Stay, But Gov. Gets No 'Blank Check'—Law360

Massachusetts' temporary ban on most types of evictions can stay in place for now, a federal judge said Thursday, while also stressing that the pandemic is not a "blank check" for the governor and that there will come a time when the moratorium has gone on too long to pass constitutional muster.
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9/10/2020 Sales behind closed doors? Off-market deals are gaining traction in Boston—Boston.com

Residential brokers in Boston and even inner suburbs like Newton and Wellesley say off-market transactions, or those involving a home that never appears on the Multiple Listing Service, have surged in recent years.
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9/9/2020 Millennial buyers flock to the burbs—Boston.com

All it took was a global pandemic for millennial home buyers in Boston to start doing the previously unthinkable: ditching the city for suburbia.
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9/8/2020 Police Investigate After Dog Shot and Killed in Cromwell—NBC10 Boston

Police are investigating after a dog was shot and killed in Cromwell Sunday morning. The incident happened at approximately 10:51 a.m. at the Fox Meadows Condo Complex, according to police.
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9/8/2020 Overfed and underexercised, some dogs are putting on pandemic pounds—The Washington Post

When shutdowns to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus began last spring, Massachusetts retiree Lisa Allen took her state’s stay-at-home guidance seriously. She holed up in her high-rise Boston condo with her 6-year-old Pomeranian, Desi.
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9/8/2020 Mount Laurel condo association charged for denying disabled resident a service dog—Burlington County Times

A Mount Laurel condo association has been charged with housing discrimination for allegedly not allowing one of its residents to have a service dog, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced.
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9/4/2020 Federal Evictions Moratorium Issued by CDC—Lexology

On September 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) issued an Agency Order entitled “Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions to Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19,” suspending certain residential evictions through December 31, 2020.
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9/2/2020 Weiners hit back at Fish in lawsuit over failed project—Boston Globe

The nasty breakup between heavyweight builder John Fish and veteran developer Stephen Weiner just got nastier.
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9/2/2020 COVID-19: Quick State by State Reference Tool Regarding Reopening in New England States—Lexology

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its threat to public health from in-person contact, every state in New England issued orders closing or otherwise limiting business operations. As more is known about the spread of the virus, states have developed phased plans to reopen their economies.
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8/28/2020 Three Major Effects Coronavirus Is Having on the Boston Housing Market—Boston Magazine

The coronavirus crisis has changed almost everything about the way we’re living, and where and how we’re living is no exception.
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8/26/2020 Don’t blame COVID-19 for the international buyer drought in downtown Boston—Boston.com

The soaring condo towers added in recent years to Boston’s skyline were not only a testament to the city’s economic strength. International investors saw them as a symbol of the region’s growing status as a global hub and place to park capital.
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8/26/2020 Boston center named after Harriet Tubman vandalized—Boston.com

A Boston social services organization named in honor of 19th century abolitionist Harriet Tubman that’s been the center of a redevelopment dispute has been vandalized with graffiti, officials say.
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8/26/2020 Large Condo Development Breaks Ground on Maverick Street—East Boston Times-Free Press

A Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) approved mixed-use condo project on Maverick Street broke ground recently, and will bring 49 new units to East Boston.
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8/24/2020 Real estate Q&A: How can I make the condo association repair a common area?—Boston Herald

Q: The condo’s balcony has loose and missing tiles that are getting worse. I want to repair it myself, but the building manager told me I was not allowed to because it is part of the common area. However, the condo is not fixing it. What should I do?
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