Report: Busiest April For Area Hotels Since 2006

Friday, June 6, 2014, 11:29am The Boston Marathon helped boost local hotel occupancies to their highest level in eight years, according to an industry study.Greater Boston hotels averaged 82 percent occupancy and $222 daily room rates during the month of April, PKF Consulting reported. Occupancy rates were the highest for the month of April since 2006.Occupancy rates were up nearly 5 percent and room rates Continue reading >>>

Home for retired priests celebrates 50 years

The last stop for many of Greater Boston’s priests is a wood-paneled rest home in the West End, where white-haired men gather and talk as fervently about baseball as they do about Bibles. The Regina Cleri residence, celebrating its 50th year this week, provides health care and support for senior priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The residents say Mass every day, retell stories both sacred and personal, and congregate each Thursday for movie night. Continue reading below “They take us as we are, and they let us live,” said the Rev. Leo Lynch, 83. “And live we do.” It Continue reading >>>

Upscale Towns, Falling Prices

A look at the latest Warren Group numbers for April is rather revealing. Other examples include: Hingham: The median home price has dropped more than 9 percent, to $567,500, while sales are off 21 percent. Orleans: Sales in this mid-Cape tourist town, home to Nauset Beach, were choppy to say the least, dropping by more than 35 percent. But that's nothing compared to the median sale price, which plunged 41 percent to $432,025. Carlisle: The median home price fell more than 10 percent, to $590,000, while sales are off nearly 39 percent. Amherst: While sales were up, prices fell more than Continue reading >>>

The 20 most-expensive homes sold in Greater Boston and the Cape this year …

459 Sea View Ave., Barnstable. Overlooking Nantucket Sound sits this 7,762-square-foot waterfront estate on nearly three acres. The kitchen and great room anchor the home and access several screened porches and a first floor master suite with den and home office with views of the sea. There’s a one-bedroom, 1.5 bath carriage house, boat house, beach house, in-ground pool, brick patios and over 125-feet of sandy beach. The 9-bedroom Continue reading >>>