The region already has dockless bikes, conventional bike-shares, and e-bikes, never mind being one of the most walkable urban areas in the U.S. Bring it.
Brookline might be known for its more expansive estates and massive mansions, but there are still homes to be found for between $500,000 to $1 million. Like these.
The newly built house at 265 Woodland Road looks like a colonial from the front and the modernist of moderns from the back. In between is a massive house with plenty of garage space.
Brookline does not necessarily leap to one’s mind when considering more affordable locales in the Boston area. Yet the town does offer some choice spreads for not-astronomical amounts of money.
The 24-room, eight-fireplace spread at 150 Woodland Road in Brookline is poised to exit 2016 as the most expensive listing in all of Greater Boston. There’s nothing asking even close to its $90,000,000 tag.
The circa-1900 palace also includes six bedrooms, six bathrooms, and a three-car garage. It also includes a touch of Jacobethan influence in its architecture.
In true Boston-area fashion, the rustic redoubt is just around the corner from the urban bustle of Boylston Street and the Green Line’s Chestnut Hill stop.
Median one-bedroom apartment rents in Medford, Quincy, Waltham, Lowell, Framingham, Fall River, and Worcester are up by double-digit percentages for July compared with the same month in 2017, according to a new analysis.
Perhaps only in the Boston area can a house marketing itself as a cottage retail for $875K and seem reasonable. The 1,081-square-foot 673 Hammond Street in Brookline’s slice of Chestnut Hill does just that.
Come for the race, stay for the house. This weekend’s tour runs the gamut from a penthouse with skyline views to a Georgian revival with all the charming details.
Those cities firmly led the regional apartment market as it entered March, according to a new analysis. Boston proper and Somerville were also among the most costly for tenants.
Arthur Bowditch, a noted Boston architect in the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose works included Downtown Crossing’s Paramount Theatre and what’s now Boston University’s Myles Standish Hall, designed the house at 12 Maple Street.
How pricey? Cambridge’s one-bedroom median in December was nearly $500 higher than neighboring Somerville’s. And Brookline’s two-bedroom median was well more than $500 above neighboring Newton’s.
It also includes touches such as a marble entry foyer, a three-sided sunroom, a large kitchen with a butler pantry, and the potential for at least six bedrooms. Also, check out the cathedral ceilings up top.