 Open Houses & Real Estate · Friday Edition Friday, September 4, 2026 | The Daily Spotlight · Presented By  | Sponsored advertisement | Weather 🌤️ 82° / 64° The warmest and driest day of the long weekend: patchy fog early, then partly sunny, high near 82, with the shower chance the National Weather Service carried yesterday now down to near zero, on a northwest wind of 2 to 7 mph. It falls to 64 overnight, and the weekend cools from there — Saturday is the day carrying the showers now · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Red, Orange and Blue are running normally. On the Green Line, Symphony stays closed on the E and Brandon Hall stays bypassed on the C through Oct 4. No subway diversions at all this holiday weekend — the next one is the Orange Line, Sep 10 to 14 · live status → | Roads One planned closure touches Friday and it is finished before dawn: Route 1A southbound in Revere, 1 to 4am. Nothing at all is scheduled for Saturday or Sunday. MassDOT’s next wave of lane work starts Tuesday, the day after Labor Day — half the planned items on the board begin that morning. |
| The number: $614,950 — the median assessed value of a Jamaica Plain condo across 5,496 units, from the City of Boston’s FY2026 assessment roll. Today’s Spotlight neighborhood. every district → | ⚾️ Thursday: Red Sox 6, Orioles 5 — Boston rallied in Baltimore to take the series opener and move to 76-65. Three more at Camden Yards: tonight at 7:05, Saturday at 7:05 and Sunday at 1:35, then home to the Angels on Labor Day at 1:35 · full scoreboard → | In the market, week of Sep 3: the 30-year fixed averaged 6.71% ▲ up 0.05 from 6.66% the week before, and the 15-year rose to 6.04% from 5.98% — Freddie Mac published this morning, so these are today’s numbers, not last week’s. And from our own list: the four open houses below run from $649,000 to $1,099,999, every figure read off each listing’s own page. Rates and the calculator → | 🏠 Open Houses Four open houses, one Saturday route A southern loop this week — Dorchester at 11:30, Hyde Park through the middle of the day, back to Dorchester at two. Saturday is 73, mostly sunny to start with showers possible later in the day, so the driving part of it should stay dry. Today 🌤️ 82° / 64° Fog, then partly sunny | Sat 🌤️ 73° / 58° Showers late | Sun 🌤️ 70° / 58° Mostly sunny |
Dorchester · Sat 11:30am–1:00pm $649,000 · 3 bed · 2 bath · a single-family of about 2,000 square feet, and the lowest price on this week’s route. Also open Sunday, 1:30 to 3. | Hyde Park · Sat 11:30am–1:00pm $705,600 · 3 bed · 2 bath · a ranch, so all the living is on one level, with a finished basement under it. Opens the same hour as the Dorchester house, so pick one. Also Sunday, same hours. | Hyde Park · Sat 12:00–3:00pm $700,000 · 3 bed · 3 bath · 1,852 square feet, and a three-hour window — the one on the route you can arrive at late. Saturday only, no Sunday session. | Dorchester · Sat 2:00–3:00pm $1,099,999 · a three-unit building, 9 bedrooms and 3 baths in total — the one on the list for a buyer who wants tenants. Also Sunday, 1 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 business in the Daily Boston Brief and on ExploreBoston.com. Reserve a slot → | 📍 Neighborhood Spotlight · No. 7 The greenest district in the city and the one that wears it best — the Arboretum and the Pond sit inside the neighborhood rather than at its edge, and the Emerald Necklace runs through it on the way downtown. Centre Street carries the shopfronts, the Orange Line carries the commute, and the building stock is mostly wooden three-deckers and Victorians put up when this was still a summer suburb. Do · the Arnold Arboretum — Harvard’s living collection and a public park at the same time, free and open every day of the year. | Shop · Centre Street — the neighborhood’s main run of independent shops, bookstores and counters, walkable end to end. | Live here · the district table — median condo $614,950 across 5,496 units, median single-family $1,107,400 across 1,912 homes, on the FY2026 roll. One of the widest gaps between the two on our table. | Eat · the week’s most-booked tables — city-wide, not Jamaica Plain specific. We do not have a Jamaica Plain eating guide yet, and would rather say so than point you at a list that is not about the district. |
| A developer wants to put a four-and-a-half-story building with 20 condos at 2062 Dorchester Ave., near Ashmont, on a lot now holding an unoccupied two-family. The Dorchester Reporter has the neighborhood review. | Properties in 20 Massachusetts communities drew the award, which goes to building new homes and preserving existing ones. Among them: a 72-unit development next to the MBTA’s Shawmut station on the Red Line, per Banker & Tradesman. | Burlington-based DND Homes has filed a 151-unit apartment complex that would replace a row of small residential buildings — its second plan in the neighborhood, per Banker & Tradesman. |
| The touring show that puts real first dates on a stage in front of a room full of strangers, with comics running the matchmaking. An indoor start to the long weekend. | The Somerville Flea people set up along the Greenway with area artists, crafters and independent designers. Free to walk through, and it runs most of the day. | The Minutes · Saturday 7:30pm · Footlight Club, Jamaica Plain Tracy Letts turns a small-town council meeting into something considerably darker. It opens the Footlight Club’s 150th season, on Eliot Street — in today’s Spotlight neighborhood, if you want to make an afternoon of it. | The South End’s Sunday habit: makers, vintage dealers and food trucks filling the lots off Harrison. Sunday is 70 and mostly sunny once an early shower chance clears. | Afrobeats and amapiano with the South African duo TxC headlining — a nine o’clock Sunday show that only works because Monday is a holiday. |
| Local The expansion follows an additional $31.2 million of state money that Gov. Maura Healey put in through the Fair Share supplemental budget, GBH News reports. Fair Share is the surtax on income above a million dollars that voters approved in 2022. | Politics The state Senate’s third-ranking member, Will Brownsberger, and his challenger Daniel Lander remain separated by a very small number of votes after Tuesday’s primary on Sept. 1. Both camps are getting ready for a recount, per GBH News. | Transit The planned facility on the old Widett Circle land includes charging for electric trains, with the first phase expected to be operational by 2030, Streetsblog Massachusetts reports. The site is the one the city once floated for an Olympic stadium. | Business The bagel chain, which has roots in this region, has shut its West Roxbury shop. Boston Restaurant Talk counts one location left inside the city. |
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