Category Archives: houses

The Globe has a good review of how the Large House Review bylaw has panned out in Wellesley since going into effect two years ago. The upshot: Most big houses are still getting approved, some homeowners and builders are scaling back their plans ahead of time and some builders are still claiming houses aren’t as [...]

One of Wellesley’s purplest (OK, maybe orchid or something) and most riverfront properties is on the market, with an asking price of about $1.2 million as listed with Coldwell Banker. The nearly 150-year-old house, which overlooks the Charles River across from Elm Bank Reservation, is currently the home of none other than Dixie Whatley, a [...]

This house was moved on Saturday from Seaver Street to Rice Street via the Wellesley High School parking lot. As you might imagine, the scene drew a crowd. We’re thinking this endeavor qualifies the home dwellers for a new set of house warming gifts. Thanks to Madison Louis for sending along.

Home sales have been hard to come by in Wellesley of late, according to the latest Warren Group numbers. Last June 48 single-family homes were sold in town, but this June the number is just 37, down 22%. However, the median price has snuck up to $1.2 million from a little over a million. Statewide, [...]

According to the latest Warren Group data, the median price for a single family home in April was $1.24 million, up from $1.15 million last April. The number of homes sold, however, fell by almost half from 19 to 10 year over year. Only 1 condo unit sold vs. 2 last year, according to the [...]

A newly released Mass Audubon study that looks at changes in land use from 1999 to 2005 showed Wellesley to have the state’s 8th biggest average living space in new homes at 4,614 square feet (Dover blew away Wellesley at 6,700 sq. ft. on average). Note that these Wellesley numbers were from before anti-McMansion rules [...]

Ok, this isn’t a Wellesley McMansion story, but couldn’t help but think of the town when reading about Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs getting the OK to tear down a 1920s mansion outside of Silicon Valley to put up a new $8 million house. As for the status of Large House Reviews in Wellesley, check [...]

(UPDATE: Interestingly, the “Foreclosure” part of the sign disappeared within a few days of our original post) Seen at corner of Weston Rd./Cleveland Rd. (Thanks to reader RD for pointing out)

We might not feel like we’ve dodged this economic bullet, but Boston Magazine in its March issue lumps Wellesley into its list of “ten towns and neighborhoods where home prices are taking a pass on this whole meltdown thing.” Their figures show that median home prices in Wellesley have risen over the past year and [...]

At least a lot better than Wayland and other towns that had been going strong before the economy nosedived, according to this Globe article.

The Globe has the latest on the Hillside Rd./Washington St. condo project, and one neighbor’s effort to stop the project in light of trees possibly going down. Ex-selectman David Himmelberger is represented the offended neighbor.