Category Archives: real estate

A Boston Globe columnist ponders whether the auction route is the best way to go for a Cliff Estates house in Wellesley that cost $4.5M to build/pay for the land in 2008 and was last listed at $5.2M. Bidding starts at $3.995M. (He writes: “The tax bill alone – $51,446 – is enough to pay [...]

Our April Fools’ spoof from last year about a group of Wellesley preservationists seeking to save the Grossman’s sign and colors wasn’t so far from the truth after all. It turns out that National Development Group, the outfit building the Waterstone at Wellesley senior living project on the site of the old Grossman’s store in [...]

Hope you’re more in the market for a new house than a dress. William Raveis Real Estate, which has been located at 50 Central St., is moving west in Wellesley Square to the former Ann Taylor street-level space this summer. The prominently located Ann Taylor store closed in January after about a 14-year run. The [...]

My head is spinning from reading what Wellesley realtors have to say about the local residential real estate market. Mark at the Wellesley Real Estate’s blog writes that “Just 40 Wellesley properties have sold since January 1 of this year- an average of 3.6 per week” and goes on to write that properties are getting [...]

A MetroWest Daily News writer laments that despite a home on Bradley Avenue in Wellesley being sold recently to Queen Elizabeth II, the royal one is not likely to be stepping foot in our fair town any time soon. UPDATE: WHDH-TV has hopped on this story, too. So have the Globe and the Herald. The [...]

The Boston Herald has analyzed home sales prices in “toney towns”  like Wellesley and found that while sales are up, prices are down. In Wellesley, according to the Herald’s research, house sales are up 28% over last year but median prices have slumped 2.8% to $867K. That’s a lower drop than seen in Brookline, Dover [...]