Tired of having your apartment shown 5 times a day?

If you are living in an apartment around the Symphony area, Mission Hill, or Allston and are not renewing your lease chances are your apartment is being shown on a very frequent basis. For some of you it may mean upwards of 5 or more times a day. So what can you do about this? [...]

Boston.com: rents are through the roof.

Anyone who has been following the musing on this site is no stranger to the fact that for about a year I have been beating the drum of the tightening rental market in Boston. Now, boston.com is joining me in spreading the word. I knew they would come around. The fact is that because the [...]

Seaport District to get a massive facelift

If all goes according to plan 2012 appears to be the year that Boston’s Seaport District will truly be engaged in some big developments. As boston.com reports developers are purposing to begin construction of more than 1,700 apartments within the coming months. I think that if this goes through (and with the onslaught of BRA [...]

Harold Brown fears return to rent control

According to the BBJ at a recent Boston Multifamily Housing Summit famed real estate developer and CEO of The Hamilton Company, Mr. Harold Brown, fears a potential return to the nightmare of rent control. Brown notes that in his opinion there is a limit on how many “rich people” are around and can afford to [...]

Tips for renters . . . . a must read.

If you are one of the many college students throughout the greater Boston area and are looking to move off campus NOW is the rush for next September 1st. I tell this to almost every client I work with but here are a few tips to keep in mind. These are directly from the trenches [...]