Local realtor Jill Boudreau this week lured Barbara Corcoran, a real estate magnate and star investor on ABC’s “Shark Tank” reality show, to help her promote a nearly $9 million mansion at 200 Pond Rd., that Boudreau has had listed since late last year (we wrote about it here). At the Tuesday night event at [...]
Carl Crawford, the $140M former Red Sox outfielder now playing for the LA Dodgers, last month sold his 5, 235 sq. ft. ,Wellesley home at 39 Temple Rd., for $2.6M. He was looking for $3.2M last summer when the single-family home with batting cage near Dana Hall School hit the market, but settled for a [...]
Ray Allen, the ex-Boston Celtics star now playing for the Miami Heat, has sold his Wellesley mansion for $4.6 million, about the same for which he and his family bought the 11K sq. ft. home in 2007 but $600K under its listing price. This according to a write-up in the Boston Business Journal, which notes [...]
The Boston Globe crunches the numbers on property tax increases from 2007-2013 and finds that Wellesley, with its 36.11% hike over that period, is #3 among 20 eastern Massachusetts communities ranked (Essex and Manchester are #1 and 2, respectively). The silver lining for Wellesley residents: property values are not just holding their own, but creeping [...]
The Wellesley Historical Society, which has been getting more and more cramped in its current location at the Dadmun-McNamara house at the junction of Rtes. 9 and 16, has closed on the purchase of a much bigger property that should allow the non-profit organization’s expanding collection of town artifacts to breathe. The Society on Dec. [...]
Developer Jordan Warshaw of HRV Development LLC made his pitch Monday night at the Board of Selectmen’s meeting for a very different sort of condo/retail project than had originally been planned for the former Wellesley Inn site by developer Spaulding & Slye. The Inn was razed in 2006, but has remained a hole in the [...]
Having noticed a couple of recent Wellesley home sales in the $100K-$200K range, I started worrying that the local real estate market had given up (or figured these must have been typos). But faith has been restored. A house at 194/200 Pond Rd., in Wellesley has just been listed for nearly $9 million. [...]
