Category Archives: houses

The Globe reports that five projects got a thumbs up, 7 didn’t in the year since the anti-McMansion rules went into effect in Wellesley.

The Globe interviews a couple of Wellesleyites for an article about the challenges of refinancing big home loans. From the article: “I think it is crazy you can’t get as good a rate,” said Julia Blake, 36, who with her husband is looking to refinance the Cape they bought in Wellesley for $695,000 in 2007. [...]

Yep, this gingerbread house just doesn’t deserve to live. Thinking the Community Preservation Commission isn’t going to rescue this one.

Check out the preliminary 2009 fiscal year assessments.

The Globe asks whether Wellesley’s “golden shores” will actually somehow escape getting eroded by the economic/housing crisis: “The median price in Wellesley shot past the $1 million mark as of the end of October, compared to $993,500 the same month last year, the Boston-based Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman, reports.”