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From the category archives:
The Big Three
Price, size, location are the big three criteria. Nobody lives in Boston because it’s affordable or because the rental housing is in great shape. You live here for the stuff outside your apartment; the schools, the night-life, the museums, the clubs, the bars, the jobs, the opportunity. Once you sign a lease, barring [...]
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Cigarettes and Scratch tickets are sold together at every convenience store in America. Because people want them. They want them both at the same time. Buying a one in two chance of painful death by cancer, and, a one in a 27 kabillion chance of making some unearned cash.
Why? Because people think they’re lucky.
Here’s the [...]
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This article titled Why Are These Renters Smiling, in the current New York Times details the drastically falling prices in all burroughs of the Big Apple.
Rents are down throughout New York. According to the February Manhattan Rental Market Report produced by the Real Estate Group, a New York brokerage firm, rents in the borough have [...]
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I have set up a Google alert to be on the lookout for our company name (Boston Realty Hub) as well as a few word combinations I’m interested in lately, and Google alerts finds interesting things for me. This was a recent catch, from Tomas Frey’s blog. (He’s a futurist with an impressive client list. [...]
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We couldn’t resist playing around with this silly web toy, Fun Test Robot. You can go there and create funny tests and share them with all of your friends—or the other people in your halfway house or militia compound.
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The web invites us to do it ourselves.
A million how-to manuals. Buy wholesale. Comparison shop. Buy your own home. The only thing you couldn’t do, until BRH’s OnMarketBoston, was shop for an apartment on the web.
But you say “Waitaminute, what are all those databases I find on the web? The realtor databases? That big huge [...]
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
The personal is political. When we talk about a little thing like web-based apartment hunting, we find ourselves talking about the professional ethics of the broker / agent comunitiy, about how changes in technology produces changes in human behavior, and about the future of that change, the direction in which we [...]
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People love bargains. (Duh.) In today’s collapsing economy, who doesn’t want to save a few bucks? So why not restrict your searches to NO FEE apartments?
Well, there are lots and lots of reasons. This will turn into a series of articles, and when we have the time to catch our breath and crunch some data, [...]
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This blog got it’s first pingback yesterday—an alert from Wordpress that someone had linked to RBA. I was delighted. Until I clicked the link and thought, well, I’m trying not to use the F-word. What the HECK, is what I thought.
The site was called…I won’t tell you; you don’t want to know; it was an [...]
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This article provided by BusinessWeek has Boston tenth on the list of cities with falling rents. Here’s the quote:
Rank: 10th most ‘rent damaged’ city
Rent drop: -2.8%
Q4 2008 rent change: -2.4%
Q4 2007 rent change: 0.5%
Effective rent: $1,634.20
The Boston area, home of Harvard University, MIT, and Boston University as well as some of the nation’s finest hospitals, [...]
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