Units in the new four-story 1699 Massachusetts Avenue—the first sizable multifamily to go up between Harvard and Porter squares in decades—start at $3,000 a month.
Unit 2 at 63 Upland Street dropped on the sales market in mid-September for $1,150,000. The tag on the 1,229-square-foot spread quickly started coming down and now there’s a sale pending.
The site of the event-slash-rally was no accident: It took place near where a 60-year-old bicyclist traveling from Lexington to Harvard Square was fatally struck in 2016.
The region is rife with gobsmacking listings of late, few more memorable than those properties born from recent renovations.Here are five in particular worth checking out.
This sleekly done condo includes touches such as central air, a stackable W/D, and control of the lighting via smartphone. But what really stands out is its outdoor space—the unit comes with a trio of decks.
The seven-room 7 Frost Street dates from 1987, but it was extensively renovated in 2016. The work left behind a sleekly airy house with three levels and lots of light.
The two-level spread includes enough space for three bedrooms and has touches such as 15-foot ceilings, built-in bookshelves, and two wood-burning stoves.
The 1,315-square-foot, three-level contemporary at 8 Mount Vernon Street starts with a garage that leads directly into the basement and the laundry room and goes way up from there.
Unit 38 at 38 Regent Street in Cambridge is on the end of a run of townhouses and that helps drench the spread with sunlight. The seven-room, four-floor spread also includes ample parking.
Bravo! Just over 29 percent of readers nailed the asking price for this 2-BR, 2-BA with private back and front entrances as well as parking. The full results this way.
This second-floor spread is the product of a gut-renovation/condo conversion. It includes private front and back entrances as well as a parking space and access to a patio. What say you re: the price?
The ground-up development in—where else?—Porter Square is slated to bring 19 1- and 2-BR condos (and a 3-BR townhouse) to perhaps the region’s most housing-starved city. Available units start at $650,000 and scale steeply upward.
The lofty townhouse at 54 Porter Road off Porter Square spent less than four months officially on the sales market. It was asking $1,125,000. It got a ton more than that.
The Rand at Porter is expected to add 20 units to the Porter Square area, with condos starting at $600,000. The housing will surely be appreciated in a city where bidding wars and fast trades are the norm.