Here now, From Curbed Marketplace, highlighting an intriguing real estate listing from the many thousands of properties found in the Curbed Marketplace. Browsing the Marketplace and spot a property worthy of being featured? Drop it to the tipline.
This 2-BR, 2-BA a straight shot from Porter Square was passed along by a reader as an example of new-construction condos in Cambridge (and we mean new construction: occupancy is slated for March). The 1,200-square-foot spread as central air and in-unit W/D as well as one garaged parking space. Yours for $524,900.
· Listing: 69 Bolton Street, #303 [Zillow]
Here's the weekly word from the sunniest blog in New England, Curbed Cape Cod!
NANTUCKET—Back in 1939, some bold soul built an International Style four bedroom on Sconset Bluff (above). No doubt it became the talk of garden parties across the island. Fast forward to 2013 and it's this week's Pricespotter. Play our asking price guessing game right this way.
__ NANTUCKET—Since we're slightly obsessed with Downton Abbey, we've decided that the shows characters will be downsizing their estate to include a summer cottage on The Gray Lady. Here are two options for the Crawley family—which one is worthy of a Lord and Lady?
__ CAPE & ISLANDS—Are you someone who spends a lot of money on Cape or Islands real estate? If the answer is yes, we're jealous—and we'd like to talk to you. If you're a high-end real estate broker, stager, photographer, or designer on the Cape, Vineyard or Nantucket—or a friend of one of the above who happens to have spy shots into a particularly nice property—Curbed would love to talk to you, too.
__ MARSTONS MILLS—December was a busy month for sales over the bridge. Here's a former Pricespotter that we featured back in September. A buyer put a ring on it in December, paying close to the $434K ask.
Where: 485 Harrison Avenue, #407 Price: $695,000 Sale Date: Dec. 14 Square Footage: 1,355 The Skinny: In Boston, everybody talks about lofts but this 1-BR, 1-BA does something about it. It has all the bells and whistles of a romantic-comedy-setting-worthy loft—big windows, lots of sun, hardwood, brick facade—but the listing assured shoppers it "could easily be transformed into a more traditional 2 bedroom apartment." The loft/apartment last traded before this way back in July 2004 for $579,000.
· Listing: 485 Harrison Avenue, #407 [Zillow]
· Did Somebody Say 'Loft'? In Boston, Probably [Curbed Boston]
· Our What You Get For... archive [Curbed Boston]
If you're a high-end real estate broker, stager, photographer, or interior designer in Greater Boston—or a friend of one of the aforementioned who happens to have spy shots into a particularly nice apartment—Curbed Boston would love to talk to you. Same goes for those of you who own the region's choicest real estate. We're collecting stories about the highest of high-end properties. Please be in touch by email. Anonymity is guaranteed.
Everyone knows that that gobsmacking penthouse at the Clarendon, once asking $7,100,000 and featuring one of the more dictatorial terraces in Boston history, is now on the rental market for $35,000 a month (plus commensurate security deposit). Now we know, too, what it traded for on its journey toward the second-highest rental tag in town.
The five-story townhouse at 115 Commonwealth Avenue in Back Bay has bones going back to the Civil War and a more recent history as five rental units. Not anymore: It is once again to become a single, private home. The townhouse traded in September 2012 after just 50 days on the market for $10,600,000—or a rather hefty $1,421 a square foot—after it was listed as a 7-BR, 6.5-BA, 7,461-square-foot spread. The news that it's to be a single home places it, then, amidst the most expensive Boston home sales of 2012 (time to update our heatmap!).
· Top Ten Home Sales Put Up Big Numbers [Herald]
· Mapping the 15 Most Expensive Boston Home Sales of 2012 [Curbed Boston]
BOSTON—Andy Woodruff maps Bostonhenge: "Here in Boston, like most everywhere else in the country outside New York, we're at the disadvantage of not having the insane skyscraper street canyons that make Manhattanhenge remarkable. But perhaps our lack of any overall street system makes up for it; Manhattan gets only a couple of days each year, while the sun rises and sets over different streets on a number of dates here." [Bostonography]
__ KENDALL SQUARE—Might the area's myriad changes have rendered some zoning obsolete? "The pretense that Biogen Idec's return to Cambridge was threatened by a cafeteria zoning requirement was abandoned Wednesday at a meeting of the City Council's Ordinance Committee, replaced by the argument that the zoning was made irrelevant by recent changes in Kendall Square and poorly thought out in the first place." [Day]
Lovejoy Wharf as it currently exists, via @BostonRedevelop/Twitter
NORTH END—Converse has signed a lease to anchor the Lovejoy Wharf development, moving its global headquarters from Andover to Boston come April 2015. Menino digs it, but a ton of competitors won't—many are reportedly banned from the retail space planned for the complex.
__ HUB-WIDE—We present to you, the beautiful people of Boston, our inaugural Racked 38 guide to the city's definitive retail experiences. This evolving resource captures the shops you'll find in our glossies, closets, and to-do lists.
__ ESSEX—In the new Shopping Confidential features, we survey retail gurus around town on their favorite hidden gems. Silvana Costa, founder of online jewelry marketplace Wicked Peacock, shares her number one spot to scout out antiques on the North Shore.
__ HUB-WIDE—Here's a leftover from our Year in Racked 2012 series, naming some of Boston's best dressed folks including bloggers, industry personalities, and local legends.
Where: 1137 Massachusetts Avenue, #46-47 Price: $530,000 Sale Date: Dec. 14 Square Footage: 771 The Skinny: We were mesmerized by the floorplan of this 2-BR, 2-BA, 2-fireplace off Harvard Square in Mid-Cambridge. It took us a little while to figure out why: the place packs a lot in (e.g., the second bedroom really is a second bedroom). That and the kitchen is in the center, a feng shui foul to be sure, but we'll allow it. The condo traded in just over a month, with a modest $9K price-chop at the close.
· Listing: 1137 Massachusetts Avenue, #46-47 [Zillow]
· Our What You Get For... archive [Curbed Boston]
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