“streamline refi” program may leave many in the dark . . . still?

We all know it’s impossible to please everyone. With that said, I thought the new “stream line refi” program the Obama administration was pushing forward with sounded good. The end game is to help borrowers refinances their high interest rate mortgages, cut monthly costs, and save money. It is likely to even help those who [...]

Court ruling to let $450 Fenway project move forward

In a major step forward for developer John Rosenthal a Massachusetts Land Court judge has dismissed a zoning challenge that has stalled for the past 3 years his $450 Million complex that is planned to have apartments, stores, and offices, over the Mass Pike just west of Fenway Park. Yet another good sign for commercial [...]

Old Filene’s site to be built on!!!!! Hip-Hip Hooray!!!

Boston.com is reporting that Millennium Partner’s is teaming with Vorando Realty Trust to push forward with plans to finally develop the old Filene’s basement site that has sat desolate since the summer of 2008. Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end for one of the more disastrous blunders in the history of Boston [...]

Harvard: “The state of the nation’s housing is sobering”

Well if it wasn’t official already Harvard has put its stamp of failure on the national housing market. It almost feels as if the report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies is a kick in the stomach while the market is already on the group and hurt. There are more than a few [...]

Affordable housing fight is just the surface

This is a story I have been watching unfold since it was announced a few months back that the developer of The Burbank Apartments on Haviland Street near Symphony Hall was going to opt out of the affordable housing business when they pay off their mortgage this year.  It should come as no surprise that [...]