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If youre looking to buy a historic single family in toney Beacon Hill, prepare to pay for the privilege, but less than the original asking prices.
While low inventory in some Boston neighborhoods is leading to multiple offers, bidding wars and sales above asking price on some properties, two of the Hills top-of-the-market single-family homes are seeing their prices chopped.
This week, Beth Dickerson of Gibson Sothebys relaunched her recently acquired listing at 23 W. Cedar St., a five-bedroom townhouse that was handsomely redone last year, by dropping the price by $400,000 May 15, after having already dropped it $150,000 May 2. It is now on the market for $5,350,000.
I did a re-analysis, something you generally do when a property hasnt sold within 60 days in this market, said Dickerson, consistently ranked as the second-highest-volume real estate broker in Boston who has sold dozens of super-high-end properties. With the end of the spring market coming, reducing the price gives the property some buzz before the summer comes in and buying slows down.
The 5,341-square-foot property certainly pops, from its stately 1836 Greek Revival brick and wrought-iron exterior to an elegantly restored living/dining area, a chefs kitchen with honed Carrara marble countertops and a private two-tiered garden and roof deck. Original floors and woodwork were redone, but theres also a contemporary feel in its four levels of living space.
The owners an interior decorator whos done a great job mixing in the old with the new, Dickerson said.
It was originally listed by another broker at $6,250,000 in July 2013, so the property has actually been reduced $900,000 since its makeover.
Another top-tier single family, a spectacular 8,684-square-foot Beacon Hill townhouse overlooking Boston Common at 56 Beacon St., has had its price cut by $600,000, to $11,900,000.
Jeannemarie Conley of Otis & Ahearn has had the listing along with colleague John Corcoran since January 2011.
Cutting the price brings in new potential buyers, and encourages others whove looked at it to look at it again, said Conley, who sold 15 Commonwealth Ave. for $12.5 million in 2012, the highest sales price in Boston that year. The price cut is already working because its increasing activity on the property.
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Frances W. Riepe, a former interior decorator who had been a trustee of Ladew Topiary Gardens, died May 16 of congestive heart failure at her home in the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. She was 91.
The daughter of Francis Asbury Warner Jr., founder of the Warner-Graham Co., and Elsie McGee Warner, a homemaker, the former Frances Warner was born in Baltimore and raised on Hollen Road in Cedarcroft.
She attended Bryn Mawr School and graduated in 1941 from the Knox School in Cooperstown, N.Y.
In 1946, she married George Mitchell Stump Riepe, who later became president of the Warner-Graham Co.
Mrs. Riepe earned a certificate in 1964 from the New York School of Interior Design and owned and operated an interior decorating firm from her Guilford home. She was still working in interior design well into the 1980s, family members said.
"Mom had a great sense of style and an eye for design in just about all things clothing, interiors, gardens and landscapes. She always looked New York-sharp," said her daughter, Kathryn Riepe "Kate" Chambers of the Woodbrook neighborhood of Baltimore County.
"She loved Paris and anything French. She was arranging cut daffodils and issuing orders about placement of furniture right up until a week before she died," said Ms. Chambers. "Having a hospital bed in her lovely bedroom really ticked her off."
"She was a stay-at-home mom, but she was fully engaged in her interests out of the home," said a son, Frank W. Riepe of Sudbury, Mass.
Mrs. Riepe founded the Woodland Garden Club, which is associated with the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland. She also had been chairwoman of the Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage.
She had been a member of the Women's Committee at the Baltimore Museum of Art and had chaired their antique show.
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The Sparkbeats effect is most dramatic when the lights are low, but it's still quite visible under ordinary indoor lighting. BiteMyApple.co
There are plenty of iPhone cases that do more than just protect your phone. Some double as wallets, some zap would-be attackers with 650,000 volts, and so on.
How about one that livens up the way you receive notifications? That's the Sparkbeats in a nutshell: it's an iPhone 5/5S case that lights up and flashes whenever there's an incoming call or text. And because it leverages a little-documented feature in iOS, it requires no external power to do so.
Sparkbeats began as a Kickstarter project in Australia, but is now available for sale via BiteMyApple.co, which provided my review sample.
Available in black or white, the case sports two clear, raised channels that run from the camera LED all around the back and sides. To take advantage of this, you need to delve into your iPhone's settings (General > Accessibility) and enable LED Flash for Alerts.
With that done, the LED will flash whenever a call or text message comes in. And with your iPhone inside the Sparkbeats, that entire channel will flash as well. The effect is pretty cool, and it certainly has practical value: even if your phone is set to mute, you can see the flashing, making it less likely that you'll miss an important call or message.
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There's also a "pass-through" switch that allows you to use the LED for its intended purpose (i.e. flash photography). And if you want to have a little more fun with the case, the free Sparkbeats app lets you enable Flash Light mode (complete with an SOS option), a motion-sensitive flash, and Follow the Beats, which makes the LED strobe in response to sound picked up by the microphone.
Ironically, though, it doesn't seem to work with music you play on your iPhone proper.
All told, the Sparkbeats is a pretty cool gimmick. However, although the raised rear channels offer some added anti-slip gription, the case itself has zero lip to protect your screen in the event of a face-down drop. And it's necessarily on the thick side to accommodate the side channels.
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MUMBAI: With increasing cases of building collapses and illegal structures, an RTI query on whether responsibility is fixed on architects apart from builders and other officials has revealed that no year-wise record is maintained of defaulting architects.
Also, the Council of Architecture (COA) does not have record of names and dates of complaints, as per a reply to a query filed by Mumbai-based RTI activist Anil Galgali.
In response to a query on the list of number of architects accused of professional misconduct, Public Information Officer R K Oberoi informed that, "No such year wise list of defaulting architects is maintained by the Council."
"The complaints for violation of the provisions of the Act are dealt with as per procedure given under Section 39 of the Architects Act. The Council has not maintained any list/record containing the names and dates of complaints, i.e. in the form sought by you," Oberoi said.
However, he said that currently two complaints for alleged professional misconduct against architects have been received and these are being dealt with as per Council of Architecture Rules, 1973.
Recently, a police complaint was registered against an architect and a Thane Municipal official by a consumer, after the latter was allotted a smaller area of residential property than what was actually shown in the agreement. This brought the role of the architect concerned under scrutiny.
"Architects can ensure fairness in their projects if they abide by the rules and regulations set. But unfortunately, a lot of architects today not only advice the builder to violate law, but also point out the loopholes in the system to maximise profits," Galgali alleged while talking to PTI.
No action can be taken against defaulting architects, if the Council does not maintain a detailed list, he said.
"There are so many illegal structures sprouting in our city. Campa Cola building is one such example. The builder is usually held responsible for illegal structures without action being taken against the architect. It is the residents who have to ultimately suffer. If the council itself has no list, how will architects be made accountable for the sufferings of the common man," he said.
The RTI query also revealed that 62,369 persons across India are registered with the COA as architects, as on January 31, 2014.
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With increasing cases of building collapses and illegal structures, an RTI query on whether responsibility is fixed on architects apart from builders and other officials has revealed that no year-wise record is maintained of defaulting architects.
Also, the Council of Architecture (COA) does not have record of names and dates of complaints, as per a reply to a query filed by Mumbai-based RTI activist Anil Galgali.
In response to a query on the list of number of architects accused of professional misconduct, Public Information Officer R K Oberoi informed that, "No such year wise list of defaulting architects is maintained by the Council."
"The complaints for violation of the provisions of the Act are dealt with as per procedure given under Section 39 of the Architects Act. The Council has not maintained any list/record containing the names and dates of complaints, i.e. in the form sought by you," Oberoi said.
However, he said that currently two complaints for alleged professional misconduct against architects have been received and these are being dealt with as per Council of Architecture Rules, 1973.
Recently, a police complaint was registered against an architect and a Thane Municipal official by a consumer, after the latter was allotted a smaller area of residential property than what was actually shown in the agreement. This brought the role of the architect concerned under scrutiny.
"Architects can ensure fairness in their projects if they abide by the rules and regulations set. But unfortunately, a lot of architects today not only advice the builder to violate law, but also point out the loopholes in the system to maximise profits," Galgali alleged while talking to PTI.
No action can be taken against defaulting architects, if the Council does not maintain a detailed list, he said.
"There are so many illegal structures sprouting in our city. Campa Cola building is one such example. The builder is usually held responsible for illegal structures without action being taken against the architect. It is the residents who have to ultimately suffer. If the council itself has no list, how will architects be made accountable for the sufferings of the common man," he said.
The RTI query also revealed that 62,369 persons across India are registered with the COA as architects, as on January 31, 2014.
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A tucked-away retail outlet west of Highway 29 is about to undergo a significant makeover, adding an almost 5,000-square-foot addition to house up to four retailers or businesses.
The project, known as Solano Plaza, will include a 4,800-square-foot, single-story building facing an existing strip of shops home to a furniture store, a nail salon and a barber, among others.
Owned by longtime Napans Gemy and Betsy DAdamo, the proposed building was designed by local architect James Jeffrey. It will sit atop a former gas station site that has been cleansed of toxics, said owner representative Tina DAdamo.
The project would likely have been started sooner, except for a corner sliver of excess right-of-way area that needed to be conveyed to the DAdamos by the city. The city agreed to relinquish the section of corner that was reserved many years ago for the possibility that an overpass might be created from West to East Pueblo over the highway.
The proposed project will include the new retail space, landscaping, trees, new signage and other improvements. We want it to look uniform and blend in with the existing center, Tina D'Adamo said.
The DAdamos have owned the parcel for almost 40 years, said Tina DAdamo. It was originally home to a gas and service station. For many years the family operated the Shell Pueblo Tire Service at the site.
A commercial strip built many years ago at the back of the corner was remodeled two to three years ago said DAdamo. That section, or Phase I, is almost fully leased and includes several longtime tenants, she noted.
DAdamo said the family was flexible about potential tenants. Because the center is off the beaten path," she thought neighborhood-serving businesses would be a most likely fit. She suggested light retail, perhaps a caf, dentist or doctor office, or even a small market.
I would hope we could get something that caters to the surrounding neighborhoods, said DAdamo.
Construction could begin next spring, she estimated.
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Sellers See Action From Banks, Revived CMBS Lenders, Life Companies and Private Buyers -- But Shopping Center Quality, Performance Remains A Key Factor
Just as in the 'old days,' ICSC reportedly sold out the entire financial and properties services pavilions, with waiting lists for each. During every panel session, executives marveled at the abundance of financing available to landlords, owners and buyers, with many non-traditional capital sources offering a broad array of options on both the debt and equity sides.
As Marcus & Millichap investment market guru Hessam Nadji noted during the firm's popular Retail Trends 2014 presentation duirng the conference, retail sales volume is now 14% greater than even pre-recession peaks in 2007. M&M's recent retail sentiment survey detected rising confidence among investors, said Nadji, who urged buyers not to "overthink" -- to pull the trigger on deals if they make sense.
Malls and strip centers alike are seeing continued improvement in pricing power, as evidenced in rising re-leasing spreads and attractive buyer capitalization rates. REITs are recycling capital while private buyers are showing stronger demand for assets, a theme echoed by REIT CEOs during quarterly meetings in the days leading up to the Las Vegas retail conference.
"There's definitely more buyers today than a year ago, there's more buyers today than three months ago and their appetites are much bigger than they were three months ago or a year ago," noted Macerich CEO Arthur M. Coppola.
But lenders haven't turned open the faucets for just any borrower or project. Non-core properties and ground-up development project are still enduring vigorous underwriting reviews by still conservative financial institutions.
"Demand for loans seems to be strong. If you're not looking to be an aggressive borrower, there's plenty of capital, said CFO Michael Berman of General Growth Properties, which maintained a large presence in the RECon exhibit hall.
Properties priced at over $300 per square foot are a lot easier to finance and can tap the now-booming CMBS market, but properties below that price per pound need banks to step up for financing, Michael Glimcher acknowledged. The good news is that the bank financing is back, given the right institutional buyer who can write an equity check.
The likely buyer pool for retail assets marketed for sale by CBL & Associates Properties is primarily private rather than public companies, and those buyers have teamed up with private equity or international funding sources, said CEO Stephen D. Lebovitz.
Macerich saw a "pretty competitive bidding process" for its Biltmore Fashion Park shopping center in Phoenix led interestingly by the life companies seeking A quality space, who were outbidding CMBS lenders by 10 to 20 basis points, armed with very competitive rates for 10-year money in the low 4%s, CFO Thomas E. O'Hern said.
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