Real Estate Blog
Tatte to open South Boston production facility, hire 100
Tatte is planning a 30,000-square-foot production facility, test kitchen, office and cafe that is expected to anchor National Development’s planned mixed-use project at the vacant former Cole Hersee building at 60-70 Old Colony Ave. in South Boston.
Five things you need to know today, and taking on WeWork
Good morning, and Happy Friday. You got through the second round of the debates. Now you've got the five things you need to know in Boston business news to start your workday right.
Massport board taps Wieland for top post
The Massport board named Lisa Wieland, the current port director, as the new CEO of the independent public agency that owns and operates Boston’s Logan International Airport and smaller airports in Worcester and Bedford. Wieland's hiring comes at a time when other state agencies…
Feeling the heat: Sierra Foothills homebuyers see fire insurance rates spike
As wildfire season looms once again, homeowners in the Sierra Foothills are bracing – not just from the threat of fire, but also from the growing risk of losing their fire insurance.
San Jose mobile home park settles, paving the way for 700 new homes
A longstanding conflict that dates back to 2016 between the tenants of Winchester Ranch Mobile Home Park in San Jose and developer PulteGroup was resolved on Thursday, according to a report in the Mercury News.
A settlement was reached, wherein the site’s more than 100 residents — all of whom are senior citizens — will be relocated to housing on the same 16-acre plot of land at 555 S. Winchester Blvd. to make way for the construction of nearly 700 new housing units.
This “protects the…
Zillow is using artificial intelligence to judge the quality of your countertops
Zillow is using artificial intelligence to boost the accuracy of its home-valuation software, and it says the latest version can even judge the quality of your kitchen countertops.
The San Francisco-based real estate technology company says the upgrades, launched today, make its proprietary algorithm better than ever at guessing what a home will fetch. Just how good?
According to Zillow, for a Twin Cities home on the market now, its Zestimate will get within 5 percent of the eventual sales price…
High construction costs, fees choke S.F. housing pipeline
Nearly 37,000 housing units have been approved, but construction hasn't even begun.
Vestavia Hills rezoning property for townhome units
New townhomes appear to be on the horizon for Vestavia Hills.
According to the Vestavia Voice, the city's council this week authorized the rezoning of property at 3038 Massey Road for the construction of eight new homes.
The property was previously Vestavia Hills RC-1 (condominium residential district) and is now VH R-9 (planned residential district).
The townhomes will be built by KADCO Homes across 10 lots and include two common areas.
The developer is taking over the property, which was…
Advice from Entrepreneur Of The Year Matthew Briggs
We asked the 2019 EY Entrepreneurs Of The Year in Central Texas how they have achieved so much and what advice they would offer to other entrepreneurs. Here's what the CEO of Four Hands Furniture had to say.
Big Island means business in a time of disruption
The six panelists at PBN’s inaugural Big Island Means Business panel at the Fairmont Orchid earlier this month discussed how tourism, energy, astronomy, housing, education and small business are adjusting to the new landscape.
Caroline Kennedy lists Jackie O’s Martha’s Vineyard estate for $65M
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, is listing her mother’s 340-acre Martha’s Vineyard estate for $65 million.
The sprawling oceanfront compound features more than a mile of Atlantic beachfront and has for decades been preserved as a wildlife sanctuary. Kennedy Onassis acquired the Aquinnah compound, known as Red Gate Farm, through attorney Alexander D. Forger in 1978 for $1.1 million, the Vineyard Gazette reported at the time.
Should…