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Greater Boston's real estate in 2016: Year in review
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December 30, 2016
What are you looking forward to in 2017?
As the last hours of 2016 dwindle to an end, we want to open the floor to you, dear reader, and discover what you are most looking forward to in the new year in terms of real estate, development, and just general neighborhood change (or stasis).
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December 30, 2016
Boston’s most talked-about real estate stories of 2016
Some Curbed Boston articles caught your attention more than others in 2016. Here are the 10 posts during the past 12 months that drew the most comments from readers.
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December 30, 2016
Curbed Awards 2016: Idea of the year
Building atop transportation hubs is not a new idea in Boston, but it took a big, stonking leap forward during 2016. Major projects once thought terminally dormant (or close to it) sprang to life, and others long-planned moved forward.
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December 30, 2016
Gorgeous Davis Square homes that dropped or sold in 2016
The year that’s ending was one of records for what is perhaps Somerville’s game-changing-est area. Not only did big deals close, though, but big listings dropped. Here’s a look back at some of Davis’ best and priciest.
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December 30, 2016
Gorgeous Dorchester houses that hit the market in 2016
Boston’s largest neighborhood produced some of the city’s most gobsmacking listings this year. Feast your senses on several, including a Queen Anne Romanesque revival with 31 stained-glass windows.
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December 30, 2016
Curbed Awards 2016: Biggest arrested development
Once upon a time, mall giant Simon Properties planned to plunk a 625-foot tower atop Copley Place in Back Bay. The spire would have been one of the 10 tallest buildings in Boston by 2020. And then...
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December 30, 2016
Boston’s most controversial developments as 2016 ends
At least some controversy was bound to accompany the’s current building boom. Here are the five most controversial larger-scale developments in the city as 2016 gathers its things.
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December 29, 2016
Somerville's 10 priciest home sales in 2016, mapped
The 12 months now ending saw the city's two priciest trades ever as well as other titanic deals that seemed to presage a permanent shift for the Somerville housing market from Cambridge or Boston Plan B to gobsmacking pricey in its own right.
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December 29, 2016
Curbed Cup Finals: (1) Assembly Row vs. (2) Upper Dorchester
Our fifth annual Curbed Cup concludes with a matchup between this year’s No. 1 and 2 seeds. Polls open through the morning of Jan. 2. Go.
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December 28, 2016
Curbed Awards 2016: Best opening
There were several big-time openings in Greater Boston this year, including the region’s tallest condo tower and Boston proper’s biggest new apartment building. But the best opening of all was that of the humble Government Center Station in downtown Boston.
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December 28, 2016
Cambridge's 10 priciest home sales in 2016, mapped
The People's Republic is undoubtedly one of New England's most expensive housing markets (if not one of the nation's), so it's little surprise that the city's 10 priciest of 2016 start at $3,350,000 and go way up from there.
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December 20, 2016
Boston's 20 most expensive home sales of 2016
Newly constructed or converted homes dominate the map. In fact, more than one-quarter of the 20 priciest were in a single property: Millennium Tower, which opened this year as Boston's tallest residential building (for now).
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December 6, 2016
The pessimist’s guide to Greater Boston real estate in 2017
Seismic geopolitical shifts and profound economic changes have the potential to buffet the region next year. Here is a timeline of the worst-case scenarios.