Ah, Abell. I loved it dearly when I lived there, and why wouldn’t I? Close to Hopkins, but just separate enough from Charles Village to avoid being overwhelmed by undergraduates, home to the year-round Waverly farmer’s market, seemingly inches from the Book Thing and Normal’s, home to Pete’s Grill and Trinidad Gourmet, and porches galore, Abell [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Real Estate - Buying, Selling, Talking About It.'
Fixing Foreclosures
December 24th, 2009 No Comments
All right, so fixing a foreclosure is sort of like fixing a divorce. Everyone involved might someday end up happier, but there’s no avoiding the damage that’s already been done. The word foreclosure originally meant ‘to prevent escape.’ With this catch in mind: a little good news. Our old friends at the Maryland Department of [...]
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Baltimore Real Estate Round-Up: Christmas Wishes
December 22nd, 2009 No Comments
One of the beauties of Christmas lists is that you get to put down things that no one will ever buy for you. No one’s getting me a rocket car made out of diamonds this year, but if they did I’d love them forever. And while it’s unlikely that I’ll ever be able to afford [...]
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Baltimore Real Estate Round-Up – Miracle in Hampden!
December 15th, 2009 1 Comment
For whatever reason, Baltimore’s Christmas traditions seem centered around Hampden. There’s the Mayor’s Christmas parade, Miracle on 34th Street, and shopping local on the Avenue. But beyond the holiday season there’s the everyday Hampden goodness: a giant flamingo, John Waters sightings, beehives galore, HonFest and the Hampden Street Festival, and the highest concentration of restaurants [...]
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Baltimore Real Estate Round-Up: Mount Vernon
December 8th, 2009 No Comments
Mt. Vernon might be the best-located neighborhood in all of Baltimore. Think about it: its minutes from downtown, central to buses, the light rail and Penn Station, close to the Myerhoff, the Charles Theater, the Walters, and the oft-overlooked Contemporary Museum. Plus, some of Baltimore’s best restaurants and bars – including Esquire’s pick for best [...]
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Baltimore Real Estate Round-Up: Locust Point for Dog Lovers
December 1st, 2009 No Comments
Rowhouses are troublesome for dog-lovers. While the homes are lovely, the yards sometimes aren’t big enough for a dog. Or at least the sort of big, fun, slobbery dog that all decent people love and cherish. Locust Point, in addition to being home to Fort McHenry, Phillips Seafood, and Latrobe Park, is the future site [...]
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Baltimore Real Estate Round-Up: Lake Walker!
November 24th, 2009 No Comments
Lake Walker, says the Real Estate Wonk, is a hidden gem of a neighborhood. And while the hidden was easy to verify (meaning we didn’t know about it), the gem required a bit of research. So, after hours and hours and hours of research (cough, cough), we’ve come to the conclusion that Lake Walker is [...]
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Baltimore Real Estate Round-Up: Upcoming Open Houses!
November 17th, 2009 No Comments
Open houses are the speed dating of realty, and we mean that in a good way. You can see twenty people/properties in a single afternoon without any sort of commitment (in fact, you’re not supposed to like all of them), there are usually snacks, and if you haven’t found “the one” when it’s over you [...]
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Baltimore Real Estate Round-Up – Arcadia
November 10th, 2009 No Comments
Last week we were talking about how nice it is to live next to a park in a big city. If we convinced no one else, we at least convinced ourselves that parks are totally awesome and wonderful. And then we remembered this week that Herring Run and Lake Montebello are also beautiful, spacious parks [...]
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Home Staging
November 5th, 2009 1 Comment
So there was a big story in the New York Times last week about home staging. This is the practice –– and for some, the thriving business -– of arranging in the house which you are trying to sell a kind of lovely fiction of your life. Or rather, of someone else’s life.
The theory is [...]
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