Roxbury
Big reveal: A Roxbury three-bedroom adjacent to a playground
Only 22 percent of Curbed Boston readers guessed the correct asking price for this 1,388-square-foot condo. More results this way ...
How much for a Roxbury three-bedroom adjacent to a playground?
This top-floor unit includes all the major bells and whistles appliance- and lighting-wise as well as a private back deck. The listing for it also points out that it’s adjacent to a major playground. Does that sweeten the pot?
What $3,500 a month rents around Boston now
The sum is quite a busy price point in Boston’s Thunderdome of a rental market. What’s it lease right now? Let’s find out in our latest Curbed Comparisons.
Boston’s Martin Luther King Jr. memorial will include Boston Common monument
The project, which will also commemorate Coretta Scott King, will include an interactive site in Roxbury’s Dudley Square as well. A final design for the whole thing is expected in November.
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7 Roxbury open houses this weekend for under $750,000
One of the city’s most diverse and historic neighborhoods is currently in the midst of a renewal and its evolving housing stock reflects the change.
What $600,000 buys around Boston right now
The sum is quite a busy price point in the city’s housing market. Here’s what it buys in neighborhoods such as Eastie, Dot, and Roxbury as spring eases into summer.
Yes, it is possible to buy a Boston condo for under $300,000
There are at least 11 for sale right now around the city. Here’s where.
Roxbury home prices this spring range all the way to South End-like highs: Report
The overall average asking price for market-rate properties in the neighborhood was $351 a square foot as of late April.
Renovated Roxbury three-bedroom on sale for just under $500,000
The listing for the condo makes clear that further changes to the floors and detailing are expected as is an iron fence and a new paint job on the outside. A buyer will also have the opportunity to purchase a parking spot for $20,000.
Airy Roxbury condo carved from 1875 house drops for under $700,000
It’s all modern on the inside, though the condo’s most striking feature is probably the sheer size of it all: 2,049 square feet, with high ceilings and an open layout.
Condos start dropping at Roxbury’s under-construction Bartlett Station
The units are part of a much larger development on an old MBTA bus yard that is expected to add more than 300 housing units to the area, including a substantial amount of affordable fare.
Boston to move toward ‘sidewalk equity’ in repair effort starting this spring
A recent analysis showed that 65 percent of Roxbury and Dorchester sidewalks were in no better than fair condition. In Downtown Boston and Back Bay, 68 percent of sidewalks were in good condition.
Boston’s most affordable neighborhoods at the start of 2018: A breakdown
The city’s most affordable neighborhoods for market-rate homes at the start of 2018 were Mattapan at $259 a square foot, Hyde Park at $273 a foot, Roslindale at $323 a foot, and Dorchester at $381 a foot.
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10 transit-oriented projects in the Boston area to watch closely
Some of Boston’s most significant developments are going up around or on major transit hubs. But can the T handle the influx of residents these projects will bring?
Curbed Cup 1st round: (7) Dorchester vs. (10) Roxbury
Here’s how the annual Curbed Cup works: We present two matchups a day during the first round. Polls stay open 24 hours for each one. The biggest vote-getter in each matchup advances to the second round. And so on.
Best Boston-area new development of 2017: Dudley library branch renovation
A major overhaul of the Dudley branch of the Boston Public Library in Roxbury is the best new development in the region, according to Curbed Boston readers. There were four runners-up, too.
The 5 Boston neighborhoods where prices have increased the most since 2012
Bay Village home prices increased more than in any other Boston neighborhood in the first three quarters of 2017 compared with the same time in 2012, according to a new analysis of closed deals.
7 vacant Boston parcels for sale for cheaper than an inexpensive home
Given the seemingly ceaseless astronomical cost of housing in Boston—homes for no more than $200,000 are far and few between, even regionally, for instance—perhaps it’s just time to buy a plot of land?
Looking for an inexpensive market-rate two-bedroom? Look in Hyde Park, Roxbury, and Eastie
Seven of the city’s 10 most affordable market-rate two-bedrooms are located in those three neighborhoods. Beyond them, you might try Jamaica Plain.
Newly built Fort Hill three-bedroom drops for under $600,000
That is a veritable steal for Boston proper. The 1,589-square-foot spread is part of a newly constructed three-condo development. The tag includes a parking space.
Dudley library branch’s $14.7M renovation will let in the light
Work has officially commenced that is expected to transform the Boston Public Library’s 39-year-old Dudley branch from a kind of fortress-like concrete monolith into a more open, light-filled pavilion.
Boston’s 10 largest condos are clustered in Back Bay, Beacon Hill
Eight of the city’s 10 largest condos for sale right now are in either Back Bay or Beacon Hill, according to a new analysis. The other two are in the Leather District and Roxbury.
Construction to restart on bike trail connecting Roxbury, the South End, and the Seaport
The city is expected to restart work next spring on the long-delayed South Bay Harbor Trail. The bike- and pedestrian-friendly trail is slated to run 3.5 miles from Fan Pier on the waterfront to the Orange Line’s Ruggles stop.
Roxbury house dating from 1845 drops for well under $600,000
The bones of the 2,935-square-foot 8 Montrose Street in the Moreland Street Historic District date from 1845. The spread features a particularly spacious living room as well as the potential for a library given the built-in shelves.
Where might the Martin Luther King Jr. statue go in Boston?
There are plenty of possible locations, including the Common and the Boston University area, based on King’s time in the Boston region in the 1950s and 1960s.
Boston’s 10 most bikable neighborhoods, explained
Two Boston neighborhoods in particular are especially biker-friendly, earning a score of at least 90 out of a 100 from a website that breaks down what makes it easy to get around on two wheels.
What $600,000 buys around Boston right now
In Boston real estate, $600K is not considered that much money. But it’s not chump change—not by any stretch. What does the sum command as the last rays of summer give way to autumn’s early twilights?
Hospital site could become one of Roxbury’s biggest apartment projects
A developer has filed plans to build a 380,000-square-foot complex on the site of the shuttered Radius Specialty Hospital. It would range from five to seven and a half stories, and include a three-story parking garage.
Rents in new Egleston Square apartments will start at $2,000/month
The complex is going up on the site of the old Economy Plumbing & Heating Supply Co., and is about a 10-minute jaunt from the Stony Brook stop on the Orange Line.
Dozens of apartments slated for Roxbury site
The Shetland Street complex would include 27 studios; 18 would be one-bedrooms; and 12 would be two-bedrooms. There would be plenty of parking, too, and an interior courtyard.
What $600,000 buys around Boston right now
Only in Boston—and perhaps San Francisco and New York—could $600K seem like a bargain for a nice home. Here are five condos in five different neighborhoods asking around that magic number. Which would you pick?
Big reveal: a seven-room colonial near the Forest Hills T stop
For the second week in a row, our PriceSpotter resulted in a tie! That has never happened. Unfortunately, the tying sums—$779,500 and $620,000, each with 24 percent of the tally—were both incorrect. Full results this way...
Fresh details on what would be Roxbury’s tallest building
The $144 million tower would include 165 apartments—30 of them micro-units targeted toward young professionals—and 46 condos. Oh, and it would be called the Rio Grande.
How much for a seven-room colonial near the Forest Hills T stop?
This 116-year-old house stands at the intersection of Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, and Roxbury. Have a look around and try to guess the asking price. It’s PriceSpotter time again!
What $2,700 a month rents in Boston right now
Perhaps not surprisingly, the sum commands a range of options depending on the neighborhood. In some spots, it garners barely a 1-BR and in others a 3-BR.
Roxbury 3-BR ‘a great South End and JP alternative’
The 1,136-square-foot Unit 1 at 5 Ellis Street in Roxbury’s Fort Hill area is one-third of a small condo complex that went up in 2006. The spread still has that brand-new look, though.
Roxbury plan would plunk apartments just north of Dudley Square
The developers behind a proposal for 23 apartments in a six-story development on a vacant lot off Washington Street in Roxbury are touting the idea as a way to further revitalize the area.
City signs off on Roxbury’s massive Tremont Crossing
The project, which includes plans for 728 apartments in two buildings, a BJ’s Wholesale Club, and a new Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, will be the neighborhood’s biggest in perhaps decades.
Roxbury spread features house dating from 1794
The main house on the 0.65-acre spread at 88 Lambert Avenue in the neighborhood’s Fort Hill section originally went up for a prominent Boston merchant (and the street’s namesake).