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Massive closing price for Charlestown gem

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jul 5, 2016, 12:09p

The 13-room, 4,566-square-foot townhouse at 22 Cordis Street just off Monument Square dropped in late April for $2,500,000. The spread, which includes five fireplaces and a chef’s kitchen, commanded so much more than that.

How much for a pet-friendly 2-BR in Dorchester?

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jul 5, 2016, 11:00a

This spread near the Ashmont T stop comes with two porches, two storage units, and a W/D in the new half-bath. Try to guess its asking tag. That’s right: It’s PriceSpotter time again!

Cambridge's huge NorthPoint project moving forward

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jul 5, 2016, 10:00a

Work is set to start in earnest on a 42-acre site between Interstate 93 and the Museum of Science. The parcel is already approved for more than 5 million square feet of new development, including apartments and office space.

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Curbed Boston Pocket Guide: Summer 2016

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jul 1, 2016, 9:43a

From skyscrapers to aged houses to parks to museums, these are the 26 addresses any local or tourist should visit in the Boston area this season. Fret not: A fair amount of them offer ample shade, if not air-conditioning.

Midcentury meets maritime at Rhode Island home

By Mary Jo Bowling Jul 5, 2016, 10:00a

We visit the Watch Hill, Rhode Island, Shingle-style home of Kelly Shea and Brendan Banks, a couple who took the long way (15,000 miles, to be exact) to get there.

One Bromfield back to the drawing board

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jul 5, 2016, 8:53a

It looked like 2016 would be the year for the long-stalled plan to plunk a tower at Washington and Bromfield streets in Downtown Crossing. Neighborhood opposition has doomed the current plans, but the developer is promising a redesign.

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Here are Boston-area rents by T stop

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jul 1, 2016, 12:00p

It would appear that staying on the train an extra stop or two translates into big savings. A new analysis (and fabulous map) also shows that 1-BR apartment rents around some centrally located T hubs are going up much faster than around others.

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Weekend open house tour: Dot for under $800,000

By Brenda Phan Jul 1, 2016, 12:56p

Options, options, options! Will you go for the classic Victorian-style home or a classically Dorchester triple-decker condo? The choices are myriad in the ever-diverse and distinct neighborhood. Remember, it's free to look.

5 tiny houses we loved this week

By Jenny Xie @canonind Jul 1, 2016, 11:45a

Another week, another fresh crop of tiny house news. Here, we catch you up on the standout projects you should know, including a dashing solar-powered model and an impressive tiny home built by a father-son team.

Big Reveal: the brand-new 2-BR in East Boston

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jul 1, 2016, 11:00a

Our latest PriceSpotter was a close-run thing. This 2-BR, 2-BA in the new Seville Boston Harbor on (or at least near) the waterfront in always-surprising Eastie drew a ton of votes and the correct asking only narrowly lost. The results this way.

Redone Eastie house sets neighborhood record

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 30, 2016, 2:09p

The architect who bought the rowhouse at 33 Everett Street in 2005 spent seven years meticulously transforming it. The result was a bright, airy contemporary that just commanded a whopper of a price for East Boston.

China’s most expensive home costs $154 million

By Jeremiah Budin Jul 5, 2016, 12:38p

If you’re paying that much for a house, you better believe it comes with a mist-covered pond.

Ask Flipped: How should I store my book?

By Jeremiah Budin Jun 30, 2016, 1:37p

I recently got a book. What do I do with it?

Game of Thrones, Season 6, Episode 10: Decor Recap

By Jeremiah Budin Jun 27, 2016, 9:00a

For sale: one Sept of Baelor, slightly damaged.

Independence Day 2 has us wondering who hates architecture more: aliens, asteroids, or ghosts?

By Jeremiah Budin Jun 24, 2016, 10:05a

In honor of Independence Day 2, we explore who has the worst track record of destroying architecture in movies.

Deal for West Cambridge's lonely Colonial palace

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 30, 2016, 11:00a

The 4,602-square-foot spread at 43 Reservoir Street had been on and off the market since late 2015. It was last asking $3,600,000 for its seven bedrooms and six fireplaces.

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It's going to cost more real soon to ride the T

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 30, 2016, 10:00a

Subway, bus, and other fares are going up July 1 as the MBTA tries to raise millions for achingly needed capital improvements to trains, tracks, etc. The increases are incremental, but they could add up. Here’s what you need to know.

Are these the coolest neighborhoods in Boston?

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 30, 2016, 8:55a

Commercial real estate brokerage Cushman & Wakefield recently came out with a report on the supposed 100 coolest neighborhoods in America. Three Boston-area enclaves made the list: Jamaica Plain, Davis Square, and Allston-slash-Brighton. Hmm...

7 fab alternatives to Ikea’s recalled Malm dressers

By Jenny Xie @canonind Jun 29, 2016, 6:41p

If you’re in the market for an affordable, modern dresser, there are, believe it or not, options besides Ikea. Check out these sleek alternatives, starting from under $200.

Back Bay floor-through starts with elevator access

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 29, 2016, 12:15p

The 2,770-square-foot spread at 9 Arlington Street also includes a sizable living room with five windows and a fireplace; three bedrooms; two full baths and one half; and 12.5-foot ceilings throughout. It last traded in 2001.

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What under $1M buys in Cambridge right now

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 29, 2016, 11:00a

Just about anywhere else, it would seem absurd to use under $1,000,000 as a starting point for finding a more affordable spot in a particular municipality. Not in Cambridge. There simply are not that many properties for sale for under that amount.

Massive Millennium Place penthouse finally sells

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 29, 2016, 10:00a

The 3-BR, 3-BA spread, which includes a hot tub amid its 1,000 square feet of outdoor space, had been asking more than $5,000,000. The price steadily came down, and the seller regularly switched brokerages. A deal for the condo just closed.

Savory Savin Hill Vic: Fast sale for lots over

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 28, 2016, 12:15p

The 2,275-square-foot house at 37 Belfort Street had last sold in November 2012 for $359,900 when it hit the market this past April for $629,000. That price proved easily attainable.

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10 key Revolutionary War monuments to see this 4th

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 28, 2016, 11:00a

No other region in the nation has quite the connection to the Revolution as does Boston and its environs. Not surprisingly, then, the areas also has some of the country's most notable monuments commemorating the conflict.

Apartments to swarm Medford's Locust Street

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 28, 2016, 10:00a

The city recently approved almost 500 apartments for the site of a shuttered Shaw’s supermarket near the Mystic riverfront. The development will be one of the biggest new ones in Medford in a long while.

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Here’s what Allston homes cost right now

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 27, 2016, 12:05p

The average listing price for a market-rate condo or house in the neighborhood is $479 a square foot. But one condo complex in particular is skewing that number upward.

How much for a brand-new 2-BR in East Boston?

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 27, 2016, 11:00a

The spacious spread is part of the forthcoming Seville Boston Harbor, the first new luxury condo development on the Eastie waterfront in, like, forever. Take your best guess at the asking tag, it’s PriceSpotter time again!

7 Boston home offices better-organized than yours

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 27, 2016, 8:55a

Home offices don’t have to be cluttered dens of paper stacks and mugs hosting the spores from coffee three days old. They can be organized, clean, sparsely adorned, and brilliantly lighted. Here are seven such home offices in the city.

GE’s Fort Point plans include 12-story building

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 24, 2016, 12:15p

The company has released fresh details about its future headquarters. The biggest addition would be a new 12-story, 293,000-square-foot, glass-sheathed building housing what GE calls a "vertical village."

$10.5M Cambridge palace is architectural potpourri

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 24, 2016, 8:54a

Boston architect Arthur Little designed 168 Brattle Street in the late 1880s as a Colonial Revival, but the 8,732-square-foot mansion is so much more than that. Plus, it’s hosted the likes of Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, and Yo-Ya Ma.

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What $1M buys around Boston right now

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 23, 2016, 12:16p

The magic sum still buys quite a lot of Boston real estate, even as the city's luxury prices scale ever upward. Our latest Curbed Comparisons reveals that $1M nabs a shiny, new condo just as well as it nabs a grand, old house dating from decades ago.

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Climate change could doom Boston landmarks

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 23, 2016, 11:00a

A new report says that sea levels around the city could rise as much as 10.5 feet by 2100 and 37 feet by 2200, more than enough to swamp the likes of Faneuil Hall and Copley Square. What’s more, temps could become positively D.C.-like.

Remember Fenway Center? It might actually happen

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 23, 2016, 10:00a

The five-building complex in the Kenmore Square area has been on the drawing board for eons. Construction could now commence really soon on a 313-unit apartment phase. As for the part that would go over the Mass. Pike, that could still take a while.

Queen Anne in West Roxbury gets what it wants

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 23, 2016, 8:54a

The 124-year-old house at 38 Stratford Street dropped in mid-March, stunning everybody with its wraparound porch, five fireplaces, and double-wide parlor. Its asking price turned out to be right on the money.

Southie fixer-upper comes with $1.5M price tag

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 22, 2016, 12:12p

The 4,544-square-foot townhouse at 360 K Street looks pretty decent on its own. Yet, Campion & Co. has listed the Victorian as not only a single-family home, but as an investment opportunity.

What Boston's soccer stadium idea has going for it

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 22, 2016, 11:00a

Robert Kraft wants to relocate his New England Revolution from too-big Gillette Stadium to a new arena in the Dorchester-South Boston borderlands that could hold as many as 25,000. Here’s why the deal might just go through.

Giant Kendall Square project racing against time

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 22, 2016, 10:00a

The federal government has set a mid-September deadline for proposals for redeveloping the 14-are Volpe Center site in Cambridge. The feds want a decision before the end of the Obama administration because a new president might nix the epic affair.

More apts. for one of Cambridge’s biggest projects

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 22, 2016, 8:52a

Central Square’s Mass + Main has upped its tally of apartments by 12 percent. Still, it could be another three years before the complex is move-in ready. That’s an eternity in a city with a cartoonishly low housing supply.

Back Bay house renting for $26K/month this summer

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 21, 2016, 12:15p

The 5,000-square-foot, 12-room spread at 0 Beacon Street comes fully furnished, so what you see is what you get. The townhouse includes an elevator, a garage, plenty of outdoor space, and a main bedroom suite that takes up an entire floor.

Dot house wants $369K for its 928 square feet

By Tom Acitelli @tomacitelli Jun 21, 2016, 11:00a

The standalone Colonial at 523 Ashmont Street is the size of a modest Boston condo. Yet within its walls are two bedrooms, one and half bathrooms, and the look of a much larger place.

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