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Category Archives: houses
Wellesley board approves biggest house in the history of earth
When a 7,200 sq. ft. Cliff Estates home described on Zillow as a “distinctive 1938 English Country Estate on over 1.5 acres of level professionally landscaped grounds with private magnificent gardens and walkways in continuous bloom” doesn’t quite cut it, the next logical step is to tear it down and erect a house roughly double [...]
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Dixie slept here
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 [...]
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MACRIS: How to really house hunt in Wellesley
The Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) is a really swell website for looking up the way back history of your home or a home you might be thinking of buying in town. The system also has historical info on neighborhoods and other structures in Wellesley. My introduction to MACRIS came while researching town sites [...]
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Another Wellesley teardown
This teardown, at 16 River Glen Rd. in Wellesley MA, involves a home sold to a builder. Thanks to DN for passing along the photos.
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Diary of a Wellesley flood survivor
Tuesday, March 16, PM: 2 inches of water in the basement. Ho hum, that’s life living on the Charles River. Squirrels spotted swimming around swing set in backyard. Wednesday March 17, AM: 2 feet of water in the basement. Uh-oh. … Two electric sump pumps doing their thing but no match vs. water incoming from [...]
Wellesley house makes its move
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.
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We found one! We found one!
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, [...]
Median home sales price creeps up in Wellesley
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 [...]
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Wellesley housing update
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 [...]
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Wellesley's got McMansions, California has Mac-mansions
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 [...]
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A bad sign in Wellesley
(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)
Recession-proof Wellesley
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 [...]
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Wellesley housing market hangs in
At least a lot better than Wayland and other towns that had been going strong before the economy nosedived, according to this Globe article.
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Wellesley condo drama continues
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.
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Wellesley says good-bye McMansions, hello whatever is ever so slightly smaller than a McMansion