Kelly Parent

Despite the terrible weather, Kelly Parent, our Marketing Assistant/Selection Specialist at Black Birch, completed the Boston Marathon in 3 hours and 47 minutes – beating fifty percent of the all runners! She raised money and ran for Boston Children’s Hospital. We are all very proud of her accomplishment.

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The Curbed Cup 2017 winner is … the South End!

Trounced Dorchester in finals By Tom Acitelli The South End handily dispatched Dorchester 66 percent to 34 percent in the finals of the 2017 Curbed Cup to become the region’s No. 1 neighborhood of 2017. It was a bit of a Cinderella story for the busy, busy South End, which started the annual tournament of…

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In Somerville, a city is assembled within a city

The 13-story Alloy is the first condo building in Assembly Row. Some units are priced over $1 million. By Gail Waterhouse | Globe Correspondent November 30, 2017 SOMERVILLE — Michelle Deady remembers when Assembly Square was an area of Somerville where she never felt safe walking alone at night. But two years ago, she moved there…

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What happens after the real estate wave crests?

By Tim Logan GLOBE STAFF August 26, 2017 Boston was flying high. New towers were transforming the downtown skyline, while growing companies couldn’t hire fast enough to fill open jobs. Home prices had been surging for half a decade, and condo builders were racing to keep up with the demand. The year was 1988. And…