Boston's Beacon Hill shines a little less bright 11/03/08 On this side of the Atlantic, there are few places like Boston's Beacon Hill. Here, elegantly preserved 19th-century brick and brownstone homes mingle on streets lined with gas ...
Industry divided over regulation issues 05/29/08 From the May issue: National mortgage broker licensing appears
on the way to becoming law this year, now that Congress, the Bush
administra...
Industry divided over regulation issues 04/28/08 National mortgage broker licensing appears on the way to becoming law this year, now that Congress, the Bush administration and the mortgage industry all agree there should be u...
The science of finding where the shoppers are 03/03/08 Why is Pottery Barn moving to Brooklyn Heights but not to Astoria? Why does Park Slope have numerous Starbucks while there are none in nearby Fort Greene? And why are store cler...
The subprime sneeze felt round the world 02/05/08 Half of Spain's real estate agents went out of business in 2007. In Ireland, where home values had nearly tripled in a decade, an estimated 10,000 condominium units in Dublin we...
Drafting a new architecture education 02/05/08 Architecture education in the United States is changing. Students are increasingly getting out of the classroom and interacting with developers and builders—an ever-more-v...
Provincetown grows prouder 02/05/08 From the January issue: Nowhere has the legalization of same-sex
marriage in Massachusetts had more of an impact than in Provincetown, a
sm...
Credit crunch takes bite of vacation houses 01/18/08 The vacation home market in the United States appears to be divided into two areas – traditional and unstoppable. In many traditional vacation home regions, the credit crunch an...
Priced-out New Yorkers look north to Catskills 01/10/08 From the January issue: When young professionals who have been renting want to buy a home in New York City but can’t afford one, they typically start to look beyond the city. So...
Priced-out New Yorkers look north to Catskills 01/02/08 When young professionals who have been renting want to buy a home in New York City but can’t afford one, they typically start to look beyond the city. Some wind up looking way b...
Provincetown grows prouder 01/02/08 Nowhere has the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts had more of an impact than in Provincetown, a small town on Cape Cod, which for decades has been a popular vac...
Boston: Breathing new life into beloved ballpark 12/05/07 On television, Boston's Fenway Park looks like one of baseball's most inviting stadiums. But for decades, the area around the stadium, the mythic home field of the Red Sox franc...
