Lofty Cambridge townhouse near Kendall Square asks $1.5 million

Openness is the focus of Unit 178 at 178 Harvard Street in between Cambridge’s Central and Kendall squares. The cavernous townhouse is retailing now through Berkshire Hathaway’s Jeff Stephens for $1.495 million.

Its three levels and 2,341 square feet include three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, and there’s access to a sizable back patio too. The house also comes with multiple decks and a hot tub.

What’d you think? By Cambridge standards, it’s actually not that terrifyingly pricey, even at $638 a square foot. A report from the Greater Association of Realtors, for instance, pegged the average condo sales price for the immediate Boston area, including Cambridge, at $673 a square foot in October. The average for single-families was $410.