The City of Boston recently rolled out a new recycling program for residents of apartment buildings with 1 to 6 units.  These Boston apartment buildings will be receiving large wheeled recycling carts over the coming months.  Residents will no longer have to separate paper and cardboard from cans and bottles. All recyclable materials will be [...]

Udate on yesterday’s post…
Apparently I spoke too soon in yesterday’s blog post.  New reports say that the Mass Department of Transportation decided to wait and hold the vote at their meeting scheduled for early in January.  I guess we’ll have to wait until then to find out if we’ll be seeing apartments, offices, or a museum…stay [...]

New Apartment Building Expected to be Built Near Haymarket
The Boston Herald reported yesterday that the Mass. Department of Transportation was expected to approve plans to build an apartment building on a state owned lot overlooking the Rose Kennedy Greenway near Haymarket.
The lot known as “Parcel 9″ is at the corner of Blackstone and North Streets. The proposed [...]

Boston has the second highest rental rates in the country!
 
 
OK, so the Yankees are going to the World Series this year and we’re not. But Boston beat New York in one thing; we’re now #2 on the list of the highest rents in the country behind only San Francisco and ahead of New York City, [...]

According to several media outlets, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts reached a deal at the end of September with CSX Transportation that would, among other things, clear the way for a new MBTA Commuter Rail stop in Allston.  According to reports, the deal transferred control of some CSX rail lines to the MBTA.  The new Allston [...]

It’s been the topic of the last few blog posts, but Bloomberg.com has a story today about a rise in vacancy rates nationwide.  According to the article, the national apartment vacancy rate rose to 7.8% in the third quarter.  This is apparently the highest it has been since 1986.  The rise is attributed primarily to a [...]

 
50 West Broadway is a brand new apartment building opening in South Boston in the next few weeks. This will be the latest addition to the higher-end full service building rental market in Boston. The last few years have seen a big increase in the number of these types of buildings that Boston renters have [...]

Brighton Tragedy
Our most sincere condolences go out to the friends and family of Gabrielle King, who was found unconscious outside a Brighton apartment at 6:30am on Monday. It is believed that she may have fallen from a third story window of an apartment while socializing with friends on Sunday night. She was pronounced [...]

Government Aid
The Obama administration’s housing plan may help more than one hundred thousand Massachusetts homeowners who cannot refinance at current low rates because of falling property values.
New information was released by the administration concerning its seventy five billion dollar plan to help over nine million homeowners. The plan incorporates a two pronged effort to help [...]

Northern Avenue Bridge
Mayor Menino, in an effort to encourage South Boston Waterfront growth, will unveil plans to rebuild Northern Avenue Bridge; the bridge which connects the Seaport District to Boston’s Downtown.
The newly refurbished bridge will be raised 8 feet so that it will not have to open for marine traffic. It will also be [...]