 Open Houses & Real Estate · Friday Edition Friday, September 18, 2026 | The Daily Spotlight · Presented By This spot is open. Reach 8,000+ Bostonians before 7am, in the email they open with coffee. The rest of September is 75% off — $29.75 a day. | Weather 🌤️ 78° / 49° Patchy fog before 9am, then mostly sunny, high near 78, northwest wind 3 to 8 mph, and no rain in today’s forecast. Partly cloudy tonight, down to 49. Saturday is mostly sunny but cooler at 65; Sunday turns wet, with rain showers likely after noon and a 60 percent chance, high 65 · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Today, Red, Orange and Blue are running normally. On the Green Line, Symphony stays closed on the E, and on the C, Brandon Hall is bypassed through Oct. 4 and Dean Road inbound through Oct. 9. Plan ahead for Saturday and Sunday: no Green Line trains between North Station and Babcock St, Kenmore and Heath St (buses to Copley and Back Bay; Orange Line between North Station and Back Bay), and shuttle buses replace Red Line trains between JFK/UMass and Ashmont · live status → | Roads The overnight lane work wraps up this morning, with Route 60 westbound in Revere the last to clear, at 7am. After that, MassDOT’s planned-work board is empty for Friday and Saturday. The next job starts Sunday night: I-95 southbound in Waltham, Exit 44 to Exit 41, 9pm to 5am, repeating each night through Thursday. |
| The number: 429 — Boston listings with an open house this Saturday or Sunday on Coldwell Banker’s schedule, 329 of them on Saturday, priced from $249,000 to $7,500,000. our four picks → | ⚾️ Sox 4, Rangers 3: Boston took Thursday night’s finale in Arlington after dropping the first two, and sits at 83-70. The Sox move on to Tampa: tonight at 7:10, Saturday at 4:10, Sunday at 1:40. At home: the Revolution host Orlando Saturday at 7:30, and the Patriots open at Gillette against Pittsburgh Sunday at 1 · full scoreboard → | In the market, week of Sep 10: the 30-year fixed averaged 6.76% ▲ up 0.05 from 6.71% the week before, and the 15-year rose to 6.09% from 6.04%. That is Freddie Mac’s most recent published release; this week’s had not posted when this was written. And from our own table: today’s Spotlight district, Brighton, has a median condo assessment of $421,700 on the city’s FY2026 roll. Rates and the calculator → | 🏠 Open Houses Four open houses, one Saturday route A route that starts at Maverick Square at 10 and ends in Brighton: East Boston first, then Beacon Hill at 11, Charlestown at 11:30, and a Brighton Victorian that stays open until 2. Saturday is the dry one, mostly sunny and 65; Sunday afternoon sessions run into showers likely after noon, a 60 percent chance. Today 🌤️ 78° / 49° Mostly sunny | Sat 🌤️ 65° / 47° Mostly sunny | Sun 🌧️ 65° / 53° Rain showers |
East Boston · Sat 10:00–11:00am $479,000 · 1 bed · 2 bath · a condo of 1,255 square feet over two levels near Maverick Square, in a building the listing dates to 1920. The two extra rooms downstairs are listed as bonus rooms, not bedrooms. Also Sunday, same hour. | Beacon Hill · Sat 11:00am–12:30pm $735,000 · 1 bed · 1 bath · a 688-square-foot garden-level condo on Revere Street, in an 1850 building with a shared roof deck; the listing says the $269 association fee includes heat. Street parking only, and no dogs. Saturday only. | Charlestown · Sat 11:30am–1:00pm $2,850,000 · 4 bed · 3.5 bath · an 1860 Italianate of 3,446 square feet between the Training Field and the Navy Yard, newly renovated per the listing, and the top of this week’s four. On the market since May. Saturday only. | Brighton · Sat 12:00–2:00pm $1,895,000 · 7 bed · 3.5 bath · an 1891 Victorian of 4,191 square feet in today’s Spotlight district. The listing’s own description puts a separate two-bedroom in-law suite on the lower level, so ask how the bedrooms are counted. The longest window of the four. Also Sunday, noon to 2. |
Editors’ picks, described in our own words, with every fact taken from each listing’s own page. Times can change — confirm with the listing agent before you go. ExploreBoston is not a brokerage. | Agent or broker? Put your open house in Friday’s email and on our Real Estate page for a week. Reserve a slot → | 📍 Neighborhood Spotlight · No. 8 A town of its own until Boston annexed it in 1874, and it still keeps a main street of its own: Washington Street, running through Brighton Center and out to Oak Square. The Green Line’s B branch runs along Commonwealth Avenue to the north, Boston College rises just past the western line, and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir sits at the district’s southern edge. One note for this weekend: with no Green Line trains between North Station and Babcock Street on Saturday and Sunday, B-branch riders heading downtown switch to buses at Babcock. Do · the Chestnut Hill Reservoir — a paved loop of roughly a mile and a half around the water, free and open to the public, with the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum beside it. Saturday’s sunny 65 is the day for it. | Shop · Brighton Center and Oak Square — the district’s historic main street of independent shops and restaurants along Washington Street, with Oak Square a short way west where Tremont Street joins it. Easiest by bus: the 57, 64 and 65 all serve it. | Live here · the district table — median condo $421,700 across 6,561 units, median single-family $872,800 across 1,192 homes, on the FY2026 roll. That condo figure sits under both of the last two Spotlights, Jamaica Plain at $614,950 and Dorchester at $499,600. A Brighton one-bedroom near Cleveland Circle, 24 Chiswick Rd, is open Saturday 11 to 12:30 at $324,000, the second-lowest price of the 429. | |
| Two City Council committees voted Wednesday to send the full council the first changes to the zoning that ended single- and two-family-only districts in February 2025: wider setbacks (side setbacks summing to 15 feet, up from 10) and permeable open space raised from 15% to 20%, with the four- and six-story height limits left alone, per Cambridge Day. | A Redfin analysis of census data puts the region’s net outflow from 2014 to 2024 at 11,098 Gen Zers and 6,830 millennials, with Redfin’s economist saying Gen Z is chasing opportunity and millennials are chasing space, per Banker & Tradesman on Tuesday. | The Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously Wednesday night to uphold the revocation of a permit for a 12,000-square-foot building the city classifies as a data center; the owner, Prime Group Holdings, calls it an inference center, not a data center, per GBH News. |
| John Huston’s film of the Tennessee Williams play, with Richard Burton and Ava Gardner, screened and discussed with Barry Marshall of Emerson College’s visual and media arts department. | The season opener pairs two contrasting contemporary works: Alexander Ekman’s comic Cacti and Akram Khan’s Vertical Road (Reimagined). The indoor plan that holds up whatever Sunday brings. | A drop-in afternoon making your own scroll with teaching artists on hand, included with museum admission. | A live ensemble plays Toby Fox’s score for the video game, with visuals from the game on screen, on the tour’s Boston stop. | The Revs are home between road trips to Chicago and Salt Lake, on the dry, cool night of the weekend. | The Soviet-born comic and his observations on American life, indoors on the wet evening of the weekend. |
| Local The section covering the 1600s to 1940 lost its lead researcher, Kerri Greenidge, who is no longer at Tufts. Tufts returned the full $335,000 contract, and the task force chair says the finished Northeastern section, covering 1940 to 2020, will wait until both halves are reviewed, per GBH News. | Streets A scooter rider was hit Wednesday at the Mission Hill intersection where city transportation planner Louisa Gag was killed biking to work in July. Councilor Erin Murphy says makeshift lane markings put down around Aug. 30 are unauthorized and has filed for an emergency hearing, per NBC10 Boston. | Music After Macklemore was dropped over onstage pro-Palestinian comments — a removal he says Robert Kraft led, and Sheeran says was the promoter’s call — the other supporting acts pulled out too. The Foxborough dates are Sept. 25 and 26, per the Associated Press via Boston.com. | Mayor Wu named Emily Knight, who runs the Cambridge tough-tech incubator, to succeed Segun Idowu, announcing it Wednesday at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s government affairs forum, per Banker & Tradesman. |
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