Alli dreamt that I had a shingled house, and it does seem fitting- one block from the water and the pioneer village.
I’m having a difficult time getting real estate news and information about this region. This is, I believe, because of the slow ugly death of local newspapers.
For Brooklyn there is brownstoner a site that aggregates news articles, new store and restaurant reviews, other blogs’ postings, statistics, renovation stories and real estate spin into one easy to navigate site. It is from a prodevelopment, progentrification point of view and is a for-profit venture, but it made it relatively easy to stay on top of the news for the borough. I have been able to find nothing like it for the Metro Boston Region. The Globe’s coverage is just sad and confusing. The real estate site Redfin has a lot of statistics, but they are trying to sell and they won’t service houses that cost less than $175K, so who can trust their market news?
Massachusetts does have a comprehensive registry of deeds site- everything is online! I just determined my landlords paid $480K in 2005 for my building. New Yorkers, yes that is a six unit apartment building two blocks from the train, zoned commercial.
So- I can find out and extrapolate. This little shingled house changed hands in 2002 for $275K and they are now asking $200K and not getting it. I am not a financial journalist- but this is not something that will easily right itself, yes? As a selfish young person, I see opportunity for me- maybe it will be possible to own a home on my librarian’s salary- but what repercussions are there, socially, ethically etc.? Will the artisan bakery stay open???
