 Open Houses & Real Estate · Friday Edition Friday, August 7, 2026 | The Daily Spotlight · Presented By · Your Brand Here Reach 7,500+ Bostonians before 7am The top of Boston’s daily email, from $19.80/day. | |
| Weather ☀️ 91° / 71° Sunny and hot, heat index as high as 100, west wind around 6 mph, dry through the evening with a slight overnight chance after 4am · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Red, Orange and Blue are clear. Today is the Green Line’s last normal day — from tomorrow morning no trains run between North Station and Kenmore, Cleveland Circle, Babcock St or Heath St, through Aug 16. Outbound C trains also skip Summit Ave today, the last day of that bypass · live status → | Roads Planned lane closures and paving work are posted on the state’s live map — worth a look before any longer drive this weekend. |
| The number: 212 — Boston homes holding an open house this Saturday or Sunday, counted off the weekend schedule this morning. A hundred and forty-nine of them are Saturday. see the list → | ⚾️ Sox 12, White Sox 11 — a wild one at Fenway last night that completed a three-game sweep of Chicago. The Athletics are in for the weekend: tonight at 7:10, Saturday at 4:10, Sunday at 1:35 · full scoreboard → | 🏠 Open Houses · Sat & Sun Four open houses, one Saturday route Editors’ picks out of 212, ordered by when the doors open — Back Bay at 11:30, then Fort Point, then two stops in Dorchester. From a 651-square-foot two-bed at $899,000 to a $2.8m loft on Farnsworth Street. In the market, week of July 30: the 30-year fixed averaged 6.66% ▲ 0.08 from the week before, and the 15-year 6.04% — Freddie Mac’s most recent published survey. · And a number from our own roll: Charlestown, today’s Spotlight district, has a median condo assessment of $754,500 across 3,731 units. Today ☀️ 91°/71° Sunny | Sat ⛅️ 88°/70° Storms pm | Sun ☀️ 88°/71° Sunny |
Four open houses, one Saturday route: | BACK BAY | Sat 11:30–1, again Sun 11:30–1 · a 651-square-foot two-bed on Hereford Street, one block off Comm Ave, $899,000. Note the T: from tomorrow the Green Line is out, so this is the Orange Line to Back Bay and a short walk. | | FORT POINT | Sat 12–1:30, again Sun 12–1:30 · the weekend’s top price on our list — a three-bed, two-and-a-half-bath loft on Farnsworth Street, 2,125 square feet, $2,799,999. | | DORCHESTER | Sat 12:30–2:30, again Sun 1–2:30 · three beds and two baths across 1,075 square feet on Rosaria Street, in Adams Village, $824,900. | | DORCHESTER | Sat 1–2:30 · the one for buyers who want tenants: a three-family on Lincoln Street, eight bedrooms across 2,985 square feet, $1,299,000. |
On the real estate desk: sellers here are still holding their price — Banker & Tradesman reports Massachusetts sellers staying firm through the most balanced market in years, even as the national picture tilts toward buyers. Agent or broker? Put your open house in Friday’s email and on our Real Estate page for a week — from $5.80 this month. Reserve a slot → | Neighborhood Spotlight · No. 3 Charlestown Boston’s oldest neighborhood sits across the river on its own hill, with a granite obelisk on top of it, the Navy Yard and the Constitution down at the water, and Main Street running between the two. One square mile, and you can walk all of it. It is also the central district this weekend’s shutdown cannot touch: Charlestown runs on the Orange Line, the ferry and the 93 bus, and none of them are going anywhere. | EAT | The ten most-reserved tables in the city this week, ranked. Book before Saturday. | | DO | Two hundred and ninety-four steps to the best free view in the city. Go early — it is 90 by lunchtime and there is no lift. | | LIVE HERE | Median condo assessment $754,500 across 3,731 units; single-family $1,348,650 across 1,078. Boston’s own FY2026 roll, same ruler for every district. | | WALK IT | Our district guide — what to see, where it is, how to get there. |
| The museum after hours on the water, which is the right place to be on a 91-degree evening. | Read the transit line twice before you go: Kenmore has no Green Line service on Saturday. Shuttles run to Copley and Back Bay, and the Orange Line is the way in from downtown. | An open-air tent on the harbor, a band built for exactly this weather. Storms are forecast after 2pm, so the evening is the safer half of the day. | If you have spent the morning looking at floor plans, this is the same instinct pointed at the whole city. |
| Boston The marketplace’s landlord is going after seven tenants for about $2 million in unpaid rent. Stalls inside Quincy Market and the buildings around it are still sitting empty, a long way from the turnaround shopkeepers expected when the new owner arrived. | Transit Nine days, starting Saturday: the trunk between North Station and Kenmore, all of the C branch, and the E from Mission Hill in. Shuttles cover most B and C stops west of Copley and the 39 bus runs fare-free on Huntington — but there is no shuttle through the downtown core, so that stretch is a walk to the Orange Line. The MBTA says doing the accessibility and signal work at once beats scattering it across many weekends. | State House The governor signed the bill Wednesday at La Colaborativa in Chelsea. It bars ICE agents from schools, hospitals and courthouses, and opens the door to prosecution and civil suits against agents who break the law. | Business Massachusetts posted moderate economic growth in the second quarter, but inflation across the Boston metro ran, in the report’s words, meaningfully hotter than the national rate. Worth holding next to the mortgage numbers above. |
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