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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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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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In the wake of the on-going sub-prime mortgage meltdown, many people are beginning to rethink the value of home ownership. Maybe homeowning isn’t for everyone. In an era of 72 hour notice plant closings, homeowners are chained to local labor markets, a recipe for widespread civic disaster in communities reliant on large American companies in [...]
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And taking it to the streets.
I’ve done a fair amount of design work over the last fifteen years or so. I’ve looked at a lot of stock photography. Pretty models with empty smiles. Guys in suits shaking hands under gleaming office towers. Graphs with jagged lines going up and down. It all blurs together.
Rental agencies [...]
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This story in the Boston Globe may not be news to many Apartment hunters out there pounding the pavement looking for affordable housing.
Rents in the Boston area spiked 4.2 percent over the past year, the biggest increase in seven years, while rising foreclosures and a slumping housing market pushed more people into apartment living.
Average monthly [...]
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