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What $3,000 a month rents in Somerville now

It looks like it’ll get you at least three bedrooms in neighborhoods such as Davis and Union squares

By Tom Acitelli

Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, a regular column that explores what one can rent or buy for a set dollar amount (or thereabouts) in the Boston area. Is one woman’s studio another’s townhouse? Let’s find out! Next up is $3,000 a month in Somerville.

Inman Square

A snug living room with furniture and a couple of doors leading off it.
A kitchen with an island table against a wall.
A dining room with a built-in, glass-door china cabinet and a table with chairs. Photos via Oyama Investments
A living room with furniture and bay windows.

Unit 1 at 34 Calvin Street comes with central air and a washer-dryer. The three-bedroom, one-bathroom runs to 1,135 square feet.

Tufts University area

An empty living room with a built-in, glass-door china cabinet and French doors leading out of the room.
A spacious kitchen with an island a ceiling fan.
An empty bedroom with a lone window. Photos via North Corner Realty
A small side yard of a two-story building.

The 1,100-square-foot Unit 1 at 87 Irving Street includes three bedrooms and one bathroom as well. There is laundry in the building’s basement, and the rent covers access to both private and shared outdoor space.

Union Square

A kitchen with a long counter and a table with chairs.
A bedroom with a bed.
A living room with a bow window and furniture. Photos via Senne
Another shot of the same living room with two doors leading off it, one into the kitchen.

Unit 3L at 12 Kilby Street is another three-bedroom, one-bathroom—this one 950 square feet. Much of it has been refinished. There’s laundry in the basement.

Between Davis and Porter squares

A kitchen with a ceiling fan and a big entryway to a living room.
The entryway of an apartment with a stairwell leading down and one leading up.
An empty living room with a bow window and a ceiling fan. Photos via Jay Najarian
An empty bedroom with two windows and an AC unit in one of the windows.

Tenants can live in a 1,757-square-foot Philly-style apartment with three bedrooms and one bathroom at 16 Windsor Road’s Unit 2. The $3,000 a month also covers two parking spots.

Teele Square

Unit 68 at 68 Endicott Avenue is another three-bedroom, one-bathroom. This 1,698-square-foot apartment includes central air, and the rent covers free use of a washer-dryer in the building’s basement.

Poll

Which one would you rent?

This poll is closed

  • 14%
    Unit 1 at 34 Calvin in Inman Square
    (4 votes)
  • 18%
    Unit 1 at 87 Irving near Tufts
    (5 votes)
  • 0%
    Unit 3L at 12 Kilby in Union Square
    (0 votes)
  • 40%
    Unit 2 at 16 Windsor between Davis and Porter
    (11 votes)
  • 25%
    Unit 68 at 68 Endicott in Teele Square
    (7 votes)
27 votes total Vote Now

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