Porter Square
Porter Square two-bedroom makes good use of its space
The redone Cambridge spread includes two bedrooms and two decks. It’s retailing for just under $780,000.
6 Cambridge open houses this weekend under $1.5M
Sleek homes in neighborhoods such as Porter Square, Agassiz, and Central Square are among the selections.
Cambridge apartment building replaces yet another parking lot
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.
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.
What $800,000 buys around Somerville now
These newer listings in East Somerville, Davis Square, Ten Hills, and elsewhere offer up sleek interiors and modern appliances.
Last chance to peep at Porter Square loft with 19-foot ceilings
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.
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Boston’s hotel-building boom, mapped
Several projects, including in Cambridge and Somerville, are adding thousands of rooms to the region’s notoriously tight hospitality market.
Porter Square’s 46-unit St. James Place underway after years of legal wrangling
The Cambridge project will open right near the Porter Square stop along the busy, busy Red Line.
Porter Square’s Hotel 1868 plans an early fall opening
The 50-room inn will include a cafe on its ground floor and joins several hotels in opening in Cambridge and Somerville recently.
Cambridge bikers form human barrier during rally for protected bike lanes
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.
5 spectacular renovated Boston-area homes for sale right now
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.
How much for a two-bedroom with three decks near the Somerville-Cambridge border?
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.
Renovated Cambridge contemporary near Porter Square asks almost $2M
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.
Porter Square live-work loft in an old elevator factory will lift your spirits on a rainy day
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.
Drive right into this Porter Square townhouse in Cambridge
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.
Capacious Porter Square townhouse comes with two-car garage
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.
Big reveal: a gut-renovated 2-BR in Cambridge’s Porter Square
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.
How much for a gut-renovated 2-BR in Cambridge’s Porter Square?
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?
Condos start dropping at Cambridge's Rand at Porter
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.
Cambridge contemporary sells for six figures over
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.
New Condos for Housing-Starved Cambridge
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.
