Charles Castillo Blog: January 2018

Wednesday 31 January 2018

A Massachusetts newspaper editor says he was fired for advocating pay equity for his employees

The paper's publisher says that's not the case.

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Boston Downtown real estate $600,000 – $900,000

Boston condo 600k – 900k inventory is typically snapped up within a week in popular neighborhoods priced from $600,000 – $900,000. But it may come as a surprise to find that there are many properties that have been on the market for than two or three —and are still available in your rice range. Back […]

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Downtown One bedrooms for sale under $800,000

For buyers who are tired of competing in multiple-offer situations, it’s time to revisit the listings that are taking offers as they come in. Today we take a look at Boston condos under $800,000 in the hot neighborhood of Midtown/Downtown Boston that have been on the market for 21 days or longer: View Boston Downtown […]

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Boston Downtown real estate $600,000 – $900,000

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Downtown One bedrooms for sale under $800,000

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Boston condos for sale $1,000,000 – $5,000,000

There’s plenty of $1,000,0000 – $5,000,000 condominium inventory on the Boston condo market right now, and you may be surprised to know that more than half of those properties have been on the market for 30 days or more. That means offer dates have come and gone, and sellers will have some decisions to make […]

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Boston condos for sale $1,000,000 – $5,000,000

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Looking for a home for $500,000? Three must-see open houses.

We found a Cape in Mattapoisett, a condo in Andover, and a raised ranch in Weymouth. Search listings by city/town and price at realestate.boston.com.

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Boston Back Bay 1 bedrooms

It was a holiday season of withdrawn listings, buyers flocking to the Back Bay and rising one-bedroom condo prices. Though Back Bay condo sales are slow for the winter season, there were a number of takeaways that I think will set the tone for the busy Spring season: Recent sales 1 bedrooms Back Bay last […]

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Boston Back Bay 1 bedrooms

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Boston condos for sale $550,000 – $1M

Driven by high buyer demand for Boston condos priced from $500k – $1M, this price point is going gangbusters in Boston. One of my Boston condo buyers called in the “Holy Grail” of the Boston real estate market. SEARCH FOR BOSTON CONDOS FOR SALE Back Bay Beacon Hill Charlestown Charlestown Navy Yard Dorchester Dorchester Heights […]

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Boston North End Condos $500,000 – $700,000

There were no winter doldrums for the Boston North End condo market this year. Low inventory and strong buyer demand fueled the fourth quarter—activity that promises to continue in 2018. Possibly motivated by the threat of rising interest rates, Boston North End buyers frequently waived contingencies in competitive situations, foregoing inspection, appraisal and financing safety […]

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Boston condos for sale $550,000 – $1M

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Boston North End Condos $500,000 – $700,000

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Millennials primed to buy a Boston condo

When it comes to talking about millennials, there are many stereotypes out there that have influenced the way the public feels about the generation. Whether it’s the assumption that millennials are irresponsible with money and would rather buy avocado toast than save for a down payment for a Boston condo, or that millennials jump from […]

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Off Campus Housing September 2018: 10% Discount Suffolk/Emerson

We have over 30 apartments in Beacon Hill from studios to 4 bedrooms. We are providing a 10% discount on our broker fees with valid college ID. To obtain a list of our listings call John 617 595 3712. After 5pm please text and you will be contacted by one of our agents. Ford Realty has […]

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Suffolk University Off Campus Housing 10% discount

Ford Realty has several apartments for rent for Suffolk University students starting September 1, 2018. Mention this adverstisement and you will receive a 10% discount on any real estate broker fees. All showings require a 24 hour notice prior to showings. Here are our new listings avail for rent for Septmeber 1, 2018: 3 bedroom […]

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Emerson Off Campus Housing 10% Discount on our Fee

Everything you need is just a short bike ride, walk, or drive away from Suffolk 3 minute walk to Whole Foods – 5 minute from public transportation– Short 5 minute walk to Beacon Hill postal office and Public Library– 5 minutes from pizza, Starbucks, restaurants and shops. RENT– Varies per apartment/month. – Landlord pays in most cases pays/Heat/Hot […]

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Emerson College Off Campus Housing 2 Bedrooms 10% Discount

Ford Realty has several apartments for rent for Emerson College students starting September 1, 2018. Mention this adverstisement and you will receive a 10% discount on our portion of the real estate broker fee. All showings require a 24 hour notice prior to showings. Here are our new listings avail for rent for Septmeber 1, […]

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Suffolk College Off Campus Housing 2 Bedrooms

Ford Realty has several apartments for rent for Suffolk University students starting September 1, 2018. Mention this adverstisement and you will receive a 10% discount on our portion of the real estate broker fee. All showings require a 24 hour notice prior to showings. Here are our new listings avail for rent for Septmeber 1, […]

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Boston Condos $400,000 – $500,000

BOSTON CONDOS $400,000 – $500,000 Trying to figure out what’s in your price range at the outset of your Boston condo hunt can be a frustrating experience. It seems like every Boston condo in the $400,000 price range sells for well over the list price, and it’s impossible to tell what will actually sell within […]

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Boston condo buyers must-have list

In this day and age of being able to shop for anything anywhere, it is really important to know what you’re looking for when you start your Boston condo search. If you’ve been thinking about buying a Boston condo of your own, you’ve probably come up with a list of things that you’d LOVE to […]

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Emerson College off campus housing 3 bedrooms

Ford Realty has several apartments for rent for Emerson College students starting September 1, 2018. Mention this adverstisement and you will receive a 10% discount on any real estate broker fees. Call 617-595-3712. All showings require a 24 hour notice prior to showings. Here are our new listings avail for rent for Septmeber 1, 2018: […]

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Suffolk Unversity University off campus housing 3 bedrooms

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Peek inside Vt. farm that embraces tradition but with modern approach

Set in a meadow in Vermont dairy country, Moxie Hill Farm is named for a beloved Labrador retriever. Design New England tours.

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Our picks: Five homes you can buy right now in Foxborough

We found everything from an antique Cape for $314,900 to a new four-bedroom Colonial for $829,900. Search our Foxborough listings at realestate.boston.com.

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Millennials primed to buy a Boston condo

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Millennials primed to buy a Boston condo

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Tuesday 30 January 2018

Beacon Hill Off Campus Housing

Attention Suffolk and Emerson students. Thinking about moving off-campus? Let us help you SAVE MONEY, find a GOOD REALTOR, and learn what you need in your LEASE! Our September 2018 new apartment listings just came out. If you call 617-595-3712 and ask for John I can save you and your parent money. We have numerous Beacon […]

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Steps for buying a Boston condo

Steps for Buying a Boston condo 1. Are you Qualified. The first and most important step before beginning your search is to review your financial situation and your plans for the next several years. Buying a Boston condo is a major investment. Step 1 meet with a loan officer at your local bank, or an […]

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Robots are Starting to Do Showings

A company called Zenplace in San Francisco is using robots to help its agents conduct showings. When people arrive at the unit, they’re greeted by what amounts to an iPad on a mobile stand that leads them around, but it’s personalized; it’s the agent’s image and voice that people see and hear. Other companies are coming out wirh their own versions of this.

It’s a good question whether this type of automation will take off. As people get used to buying goods at automated stores in which everything is done with your phone or credit card and no employees are around, it’s feasible mobile iPads will do the trick at showings.

Screen grab from Zenplace video

Whether you like the idea or not, it’s a trend that’s poised to hit your industry. There are other tech trends you’ll be faced with whether you like them or not. One is a kind of virtual tour that’s more immersive than what you get by just wearing goggles. You get an additional tactile component, because you’re wearing gloves with sensors. Now you feel the door handle when you open the refrigerator as well as see it in multiple dimensions.

Will this be the norm six years from now? Who knows, but now that the genie’s out of the bottle, it’s not likely to get put back in.

REALTOR® Magazine spent a few days at CES in Las Vegas two weeks ago and brought back coverage of all types of tech innovations coming to real estate. CES stands for Consumer Electronics Show and it’s the big showcase each year at which companies try to wow people with what the’re cooking up for us.

You can learn more about CES and also about real estate robots in the latest Voice for Real Estate video. The video also looks at something the U.S. Department of Labor did a few weeks ago that could eventually be important to you because it promises to get the real estate industry one step closer to setting up association health plans (AHPs) for independent contractors.

The agency proposed adding “working owner” to the definition of employer for purposes of setting up AHPs, which would enable sole proprietors and small business owners to ban together for insurance under the large group market, which could make coverage available more cheaply than under the small group market. There remain a lot of hurdles, but this was a crucial step in the right direction.

The video also looks at the three-day federal government shutdown and what could happen to your pipeline of homes sales if there’s another one in a few weeks, which could happen since the short-term budget law expires in early February. If your buyers are applying for FHA-backed financing, they would probably be okay, although processing might take a bit longer. But if they[re buying a new house in a flood area, they might not be able to get flood insurance, and that would mean a delay in closing.

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Check for assessments when buying a Boston condo

Make sure you do your due diligence when it comes to buying a Boston condo in a building that has/ might need an assessment for capital improvements. If you’re considering purchasing a condo in a building that might need retrofit work, request the last condo association meeting notes from the seller, this will indicate if […]

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2018 Boston condo rents on the rise again

There are many benefits to owning your own Boston condo. One of the top benefits is protecting yourself from rising apartment/condo rents, by locking in your housing cost for the life of your mortgage. Don’t Become Trapped A recent article by Apartment List addressed rising rents by stating: “Rents are up 2.7% year-over-year at the national level. Year-over-year growth continues […]

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Boston condo sellers: Top 5 reasons you shouldn’t FSBO

In today’s Boston condo market, with condominium prices rising and a lack of inventory, some Boston homeowners may consider trying to sell their home on their own, known in the industry as a For Sale by Owner (FSBO). There are several reasons why this might not be a good idea for the vast majority of sellers. Here […]

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Boston Condos: Why Millennials Choose to Buy

The majority of Millennials said they consider owning a Boston condo more sensible than renting a Boston apartment for both financial and lifestyle reasons – including control of living space, flexibility in future decisions, privacy and security, and living in a nice place. Click on the chart to enlarge. Contact me to set up an […]

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Proposal for massive marijuana facility divides North Andover

Residents will decide Tuesday whether to welcome one of the world’s largest cannabis growing and research facilities.

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Fireball closes in on Maine Allen's sales

Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy is still the top selling spirit in Maine, but Fireball is coming in at a close second

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Off Campus Housing September 2018: 10% Discount Suffolk/Emerson

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Off Campus Housing September 2018: 10% Discount Suffolk/Emerson

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Proposal for massive marijuana facility divides North Andover

Fireball closes in on Maine Allen's sales

Gambling regulators to discuss reported Steve Wynn allegations

State casino regulators have called a meeting to discuss sexual misconduct allegations against Las Vegas billionaire Steve Wynn

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MassHousing Closes on $17.1 Million in Financing for 102-Unit Housing Community in Lawrence

BOSTON – MassHousing has closed on a total of $17.1 million in financing to an affiliate of Trinity Financial, Inc., for the creation of a new, 102-unit, affordable housing community in Lawrence.

Trinity Financial will transform the former Van Brodie Mill into new mixed-income housing within a smart growth district off Broadway, near the border of Methuen.

The adaptive reuse project will preserve a historic former mill, while remediating a Brownfields site. Van Brodie Mill is Trinity Financial’s first project in Lawrence.

“Van Brodie Mill will be an important new housing resource for working families in Lawrence,” said MassHousing Acting Executive Director Tom Lyons. “This transformational project will put a former Brownfield back into productive use, while advancing regional economic development, and enabling families to live affordably and prosper in greater Lawrence.”

Constructed in 1919 by the Arlington Mills company, the Van Brodie Mill originally manufactured yarn for wool and flannel. By the 1950s, the Arlington Mills company had closed and the Van Brodie Mill was operated by a company that shifted production to food products, including packaged breakfast cereals and rations for the military.

Thomas J. Lyons

The new apartments will serve residents with a broad range of incomes. Of the 102 units, 16 will be for very low-income households earning at or below 30 percent of the area median income (AMI), 67 will be for low-income households earning at or below 60 percent of the AMI, and 19 will be dedicated for workforce housing for households earning between 61 and 80 percent of the AMI. The AMI for Lawrence and the surrounding area is $87,600 for a family of four. The completed project will contain eight studio apartments, 25 one-bedroom apartments, 56 two-bedroom apartments and 13 three-bedroom apartments.

MassHousing is supporting the redevelopment of Van Brodie Mill by providing more than $17 million in affordable housing funding, including a $14 million conduit bridge loan, $1.2 million in permanent financing, and $1.9 million in workforce housing funds.

An allocation of state and federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits from the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will generate nearly $29 million in equity financing for the project. Federal and state historic tax credits will contribute an additional $8.4 million of equity. DHCD invested $2.3 million of funding through its Housing Stabilization Fund. The project also received $2.3 million through the Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF), which MassHousing manages on behalf of DHCD. TD Bank will provide approximately $35 million of construction financing, as well a $14 million letter of credit. Red Stone Equity Partners is the tax credit syndicator. Architectural Heritage Foundation is the project’s non-profit lender and historic consultant.

“We are thrilled to begin the transformation of the Van Brodie Mill,” said Trinity Financial project manager Dan Drazen. “Thanks to MassHousing’s investment, this project will breathe new life into a historically significant asset while creating much-needed mixed-income housing in the Gateway City of Lawrence.”

The redevelopment of Van Brodie Mill advances the Baker-Polito Administration’s goal of creating up to 1,000 new workforce housing units affordable to middle-income households through MassHousing’s $100 million Workforce Housing Initiative. Since the inception of the initiative in 2016, MassHousing has committed or closed workforce housing financing totaling $49.7 million, to 23 projects, located in 13 cities and towns. To date, the Workforce Housing Initiative has advanced the development of 2,111 housing units across a range of incomes, including 538 workforce housing units.

“This is a very important project that will allow low-income families to have a place they can call home,” said Thomas McColgan, Vice President at TD Bank. “This is one of our many projects with Trinity Financial and we are incredibly pleased to work with such a great set of partners to provide top-quality affordable housing for the residents of Lawrence.”

“Red Stone Equity Partners was pleased to provide over $37 million in tax credit equity to support the Van Brodie Mill redevelopment and partner with Trinity Financial on this important affordable housing development serving families in the Lawrence community,” said Rob Vest, Red Stone Equity Principal and Managing Director of Acquisitions.

Van Brodie Mill will be built on four adjacent land parcels within the city’s 34-acre Arlington Mills Smart Growth Overlay District, containing two interconnected mill buildings with 100 units, a small, former incinerator building with two units, a water pump house, and a parking lot.

The contractor will be Aberthaw Construction. The architect is ICON Architecture and the management agent will be Trinity Management LLC.

MassHousing has financed or administers the subsidy contract for 16 rental communities in Lawrence, for a total of 1,965 housing units and an original loan amount of $103 million. The Agency has also provided $120.5 million in financing to 1,341 Lawrence homebuyers or homeowners.

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Boston Condos $400,000 – $500,000

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Recent home sales in Boston and Cambridge (Jan. 30)

ALLSTON: 39 Glenville Ave. #4; Condominium Low-Rise, built in 1920, 547 square feet, 3 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, on 547-square-foot lot. $318,000

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Recent home sales west of Boston (Jan. 30)

ACTON: 24 Liberty St.; One-family Antique, built in 1710, 3,878 square feet, 9 rooms, 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, on 936,390-square-foot lot. $1,293,100

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Recent home sales north of Boston (Jan. 30)

AMESBURY: 15 Highland St.; One-family Old Style, built in 1950, 2,113 square feet, 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, on 17,300-square-foot lot. $239,446

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Recent home sales south of Boston (Jan. 30)

ABINGTON: 121 Elderberry Circle; One-family Raised Ranch, built in 1969, 1,492 square feet, 5 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, on 19,583-square-foot lot. $405,000

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Boston Condos $400,000 – $500,000

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Boston condo buyers must-have list

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Home of the Week: Kitchen that keeps Gronk in sugar cookies hits market

The Patriots' “X-Ray Lenny’’ and “Cookiemama’’ are spending their last Super Bowl Sunday in this Foxborough home. Search listings at realestate.boston.com.

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Boston condo buyers must-have list

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Luxury Home of the Week: This $5.5 million Concord home with a stable is set on a 5-acre hilltop

Built in 1908, this five-bedroom, 6.5-bath, 7,613-square-foot home is set on a 5-acre lot, ensuring a great deal of privacy.

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Green Leaf Wins Design Build Institute of America Award

Leominster, MA–Green Leaf Construction was honored last week by the New England Chapter of the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) with a Silver Award, recognizing the recently completed Central Distribution Facility for F.W. Webb Company.

Hailed as one of the largest buildings in New Hampshire, the new Central Distribution Facility encompasses nearly 1 million square feet of warehouse and Class A office spaces.

Green Leaf led the project Design Build team, which included ci design, inc., Hayner/Swanson Engineering, Geotechnical Services, Inc. (GSI), AVID Engineers, Summit Engineering, CANAM and Fabcon.

“Each and every team member had a part in driving value for F.W. Webb on this project, and making it the success it was,” said Green Leaf COO Thomas Dube upon accepting the award.

The DBIA promotes the value of design-build project delivery and teaches the effective integration of design and construction services to ensure success for owners and design and construction practitioners.

Green Leaf Construction is a construction management, design build and general contracting firm located in Leominster, Mass serving commercial, industrial, and institutional organizations throughout the northeast.

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Proposal for massive marijuana facility divides North Andover

Emerson College off campus housing 3 bedrooms

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Suffolk Unversity University off campus housing 3 bedrooms

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Emerson College off campus housing 3 bedrooms

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Suffolk Unversity University off campus housing 3 bedrooms

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Competing to buy homes against all-cash buyers

Kenneth Harney has an excellent column about how the government is trying to help average homebuyers compete to buy foreclosed homes taken over by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, who usually sell off foreclosed homes to all-cash investment buyers. There’s not a lot of such average-buyer homes available in Massachusetts, with our 2018 strong Boston […]

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Competing to buy homes against all-cash buyers

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Monday 29 January 2018

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ULI Experts Identify Future Development Priorities Catalyzed by Proposed North-South Rail Link in Boston

BOSTON– An expert panel of real estate and land use professionals convened in Boston by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) has identified key priorities to guide future real estate development that could be catalyzed by a proposed underground rail line that will link two major transit hubs—North Station and South Station—and unify two currently separate commuter rail systems.

The priorities identified by the panel include:

Strengthening links between housing and job centers;
Preserving high-value land in the urban core for real estate development;
Increasing social equity by building affordable housing at transit nodes and improving rail and mobility access for underserved communities;
Developing transit-oriented development area plans for stations along all commuter rail and “T” subway lines; and
Incorporating climate resilience into future investments given Boston’s proximity to the coast and threats from sea-level rise.

The panel, convened through ULI’s advisory services program, was comprised of nationally known land use professionals representing all aspects of urban development and design.

Panelists emphasized that while Boston’s recent unprecedented job growth has unleashed a boom in commercial development, the region’s housing supply has not kept pace, creating an affordability crisis and enclaves of extreme wealth and poverty. The proposed North-South Rail Link that will lead to a unified and expanded commuter rail system for Greater Boston has the potential to meet current and future housing demand, address income inequality, and foster economic competitiveness of the region, panel members said.

“Boston’s commuter rail and transit system is a unique asset that offers the region a strategic advantage over other metropolitan areas, both nationally and globally,” said ULI leader and panel chairman Marilee Utter, president of Citiventure Associates LLC in Denver. “Yet, the region’s ability to maintain its quality of life and compete globally is seriously at risk if it does not take a comprehensive approach to a unified rail system that leverages the tools of real estate development, public/private partnerships, and transit-oriented development to achieve these goals.”

The panel, which visited Boston in October 2017, was sponsored by the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership in collaboration with the City of Boston and several communities in the greater Boston region. The group analyzed local market conditions and the implications for real estate on several sites that would be transformed by the proposed North-South Rail Link, including the U.S. Postal Services Fort Point Station, Widett Circle, and a proposed expansion of South Station.

In drafting its recommendations, the panel considered such factors as optimal use for these sites, connections to adjacent neighborhoods and nearby “edge” cities and towns, and alignment with Boston’s goals and vision for future growth. During its week-long engagement, panelists toured the sites and spent two full days interviewing dozens of stakeholders from the public and private sector.

In addition to Utter, panelists included: Rick Krochalis, commissioner, Seattle Design Commission, Seattle; Robert Ravelli, director, Contemporary Solutions, London; Michael Reynolds, principal, The Concord Group, Newport Beach, California; Stan Wall, partner, HR&A Advisors, Washington, D.C.; Theresa Ward, deputy county executive/commissioner, Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning, Hauppauge, New York; Mary Campbell, associate vice chancellor for real estate, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; and Stephen Whitehouse, partner at Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, New York City.

For more than 70 years, the ULI advisory services program has assembled experts in the fields of real estate and urban development to participate on panels worldwide, offering recommendations for complex planning and development projects, programs and policies. Panels have developed more than 700 studies for a broad range of land uses ranging from waterfront properties to inner-city retail.

According to Thomas Eitler, senior vice president of ULI’s advisory services program, the strength of the program lies in ULI’s unique ability to draw on the substantial knowledge of its 40,000-plus members, including land developers, engineers, public officials, academics, lenders, architects, planners and urban designers. “The independent views of the panelists bring a fresh perspective to the land use challenge,” Eitler said. “The advisory services program is about offering creative, innovative approaches to community building.”

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2018: Finding a Boston condo under $500,000

You needed at least a half a million dollars to buy a condominium in the Boston proper area for 2018. And to find those Boston condos are few and far between, given that the median price for a Boston condo, so far this year, was about twice that amount. The least-expensive Boston condo on the […]

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Why You Should Not Ignore Inbound Marketing

By Upendra Mishra

BOSTON—Do you remember the days when savvy marketers and business development gurus used to (and still) talk about referral or world-of-mouth marketing? You had done a good job for a client, and they told someone about your work, and they in turn told someone else, and suddenly you could not handle the customers coming your way.

Upendra Mishra

Well, that is still the best way to market any company or product. One thing, however, has changed drastically: marketing your services in today’s ever-evolving digital world. Can we create the old word-of-mouth momentum today? Yes, we can because that basic tenet of marketing has not changed at all. We still attract many new customers through referrals and word-of-mouth.

But with the vast reach of the Internet, it can be difficult to bring in customer simply by word-of-mouth. Now, we bring the customers to us, using a process called inbound marketing. But what is inbound marketing?

Cambridge, MA-based HubSpot has been a pioneer in the field of inbound marketing. “Inbound marketing is focused on attracting customers through relevant and helpful content and adding value at every stage in your customer’s buying journey. With inbound marketing, potential customers find you through channels like blogs, search engines, and social media,” according to HubSpot. “Unlike outbound marketing, inbound marketing does not need to fight for potential customers attention. By creating content designed to address the problems and needs of your ideal customers, you attract qualified prospects and build trust and credibility for your business.”

Our inbound marketing strategies, combined with effective PR, marketing communications and digital approaches, pulls prospects to our clients instead of bombarding inconsistent messages to their potential and existing customers.

Inbound Marketing: Adapted from HubSpot

Using targeted content developed for blogging, SEO, email and dissemination on social media such as LinkedIn, Twitter and other outlets, the Mishra Group team crafts effective and consistent messages to attract potential clients and generate new leads.

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(Upendra Mishra, founder and managing partners of The Mishra Group, is an integrated inbound marketing expert.)

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2018: Finding a Boston condo under $500,000

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AEW and Griffith Properties Joint Venture Buys Peabody Distribution Facility for $21.7 Million

BOSTON– As Greater Boston’s industrial fundamentals continue to strengthen to unprecedented levels, interest from institutional investors continues to grow and broaden into alternative assets, such as cold storage facilities.

JLL’s Capital Markets group recently announced the firm completed the sale of 1 Technology Drive in Peabody, MA, on behalf of New Jersey-based Normandy Real Estate Partners. A partnership between AEW and Griffith Properties purchased the 186,591-square-foot distribution center and freezer facility for $21.7 million.

JLL Managing Director Frank Petz and Vice President George Gregory led the JLL team on the sale.

“1 Tech Drive marked an exciting and rare opportunity to invest in outer urban logistics product in the Boston area,” said Marci Loeber of Griffith Properties. “Griffith is pleased to further our relationship with AEW by partnering on the 1 Tech Drive investment.”

Frank Petz

Petz said: “Urban logistics properties such as 1 Tech Drive, with its cold storage infrastructure and extensive outdoor storage, have become highly coveted assets for investors looking to capitalize on ecommerce-driven shifts in consumer behavior. This deal speaks to the high desirability of logistics property in Greater Boston, as there was broad interest in the asset, on a national and global scale.”

The building is in Centennial Park in Peabody, which has access to Route 128 and Route 1, giving tenants direct highway access, especially to Logan Airport. Boston’s overall Class A warehouse market has become incredibly tight, as evidenced by an unprecedented vacancy rate below 5%. Tenant options become even more limited in the submarket north of Boston, where the Class A vacancy rate is below 2.5%.

JLL Capital Markets is a full-service global provider of capital solutions for real estate investors and occupiers. The firm’s in-depth local market and global investor knowledge delivers the best-in-class solutions for clients — whether a sale, financing, repositioning, advisory or recapitalization execution. In 2016 alone, JLL Capital Markets completed $136 billion in investment sale and debt and equity transactions globally. The firm’s Capital Markets team comprises more than 2,000 specialists, operating all over the globe.

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Suffolk & Emerson: Off Campus Housing

we just received a list of over 50 apartments for rent in Beacon Hill that will allow under grad students. To obtain the list contact John Ford at 617-595-3712 or email me at realtyford@yahoo.com

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Suffolk & Emerson: Off Campus Housing 10% Dicount of Fees

we just received a list of over 50 apartments for rent in Beacon Hill that will allow under grad students. To obtain the list contact John Ford at 617-595-3712 or email me at realtyford@yahoo.com

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2018: Winter is the time to sell your Boston condo

Every winter, Boston condo owners across the city decide if this will be the year that they sell their current condo and move into their dream home. Here are five reasons listing your Boston condo for sale this winter makes sense. 1. Demand Is Strong The latest Buyer Traffic Report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows that buyer […]

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2018: Winter is the time to sell your Boston condo

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2018: Winter is the time to sell your Boston condo

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How to save on your tax bills: Start a real estate trust

Some major corporations have discovered a way to cut their tax bills: Organize as a real estate investment trust, even if real estate is not the core essence of their business. Can’t you just see fast-food chains with multiple locations doing this next? File under: Tax loopholes And, no, the Globe isn’t the one starting […]

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2018 Boston condos: Superbowl

My cousin from Boston has two tickets for the 2018 SUPER BOWL, both seats on the 50 yard line. He paid $2,500 each ticket, but he didn’t realize last year when he bought them, it was going to be on the exact same weekend as his wedding. If you are interested, he is looking for […]

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Luxury apartment glut alert!

Via Adam, it appears one landlord is really competing to find tenants. And this is why building more housing is good for the city. File under: More housing, please Back to Boston condos for sale homepage Contact me to find out more about this property or to set up an appointment to see it. Boston […]

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Downtown Boston evolves into a real neighborhood

Sometimes you need someone to state the outright obvious in order for something to finally sink in. In downtown Boston’s case, Jennifer Athas has nailed the outright obvious: Boston’s downtown really has emerged of late into a genuine neighborhood. One can argue what exactly constitute’s the city’s “downtown.” But if you narrow it to roughly […]

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