The Best Condos in Boston are on Marlborough Street
My bike is down for repairs at the moment, so I’ve been spending a bit of time on T. On a Red Line train from Harvard today, an ad read “The Best Condos in Boston are in Marlborough”.
I didn’t catch the name of the company selling these places, or their website, but it really brought me back to Pamela’s post from earlier today. How much longer are people really going to salivate over the suburban dream?
Sure, refurbed factory condos in the center of Marlborough offer households without children many of the things city living allows: a few services with walkable proximity, a couple interesting shops, and somewhat-diminished carbon footprint from owning part of a building, instead of an entire property.
But while these features even come without some of the less-desirable elements of city life (parking hassles, noise, crime), you’re still stuck in traffic for events in the city proper: the best hospitals in the country, Red Sox games, concerts at the Garden, fireworks and the BSO on the Fourth, New Year’s Eve in Copley Square, tastings at one of the best microbreweries on the East Coast, and plenty more things besides.
Spacious and inexpensive condos from Weymouth to Needham to Marlborough to Lawrence are always tempting, but with the cost of gas going up, and the time I have to deal with hassles going down, a location as central as I can afford is always going to win out.
Having said that, Marlborough Street remains just a touch out of my reach—though a few more down days on Wall Sreet and the duck-and-cover asset management strategy I adopted last August might just get me there.
240 Marlborough #2B
Boston, MA 02116
1 beds, 1 bath
515 sq. ft.
$359,000
371 Marlborough #4
Back Bay, MA 02115
1 bed, 1 bath
843 sq. ft.
$549,000
121 Marlborough St #5
Back Bay, MA 02116
2 beds, 2.5 baths
1,174 sq. ft.
$1,350,000
How It All Began, Almost a Decade Ago
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