 Open Houses & Real Estate · Friday Edition Friday, September 25, 2026 | The Daily Spotlight · Presented By This spot is open. Reach 8,500+ Bostonians before 7am, in the email they open with coffee. The rest of September is 75% off — $29.75 a day. | Weather 💨 66° / 54° High Wind Warning from 8am today until 2am Sunday. Mostly cloudy and windy today, northeast 15 to 26 mph with gusts to 40, and a 30 percent chance of rain after 2pm. Rain likely tonight, gusts to 53, low 54. Saturday and Sunday: rain, 100 percent both days, highs 61 and 62 · 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. From Saturday through Oct. 4: no Green Line trains between North Station and Babcock St, Kenmore and Heath St. Route 39 buses link Babcock, Kenmore and Heath St with Copley and Back Bay, and the Orange Line covers North Station to Back Bay · live status → | Roads The overnight lane work wraps up this morning, with Route 60 westbound in Revere the last to clear, at 7am. Daytime today, MassDOT has intermittent lane closures on Routes 28 and 38 in Somerville and Medford and Route 1A southbound in Revere, roughly 7 or 8am to 3pm. Nothing is planned for Saturday; night work returns Sunday, including I-95 in Waltham from 9pm. |
| The number: 394 — Boston listings with an open house this Saturday or Sunday on Coldwell Banker’s schedule as of Thursday afternoon, 284 of them on Saturday, priced from $315,000 to $7,750,000. our four picks → | ⚾️ Red Sox 1, Guardians 0 on Wednesday, Gray’s 18th win, for an 85-73 record; Thursday night’s game with Cleveland was still to be played when this was written. MLB’s schedule now has the Cubs at Fenway for a doubleheader today, 1:05 and 6:05, then Saturday at 7:15, all in the teeth of the storm. On the road: the Revolution at Real Salt Lake Saturday at 9:30pm, and the Patriots at Jacksonville Sunday at 1 · full scoreboard → | In the market, week of Sep 24: the 30-year fixed averaged 7.03% ▲ up 0.08 from 6.95% the week before, its fifth straight weekly rise and the first reading above 7% since January 2025. The 15-year rose to 6.42% from 6.26%. And from our own table: today’s Spotlight district, Back Bay, has a median condo assessment of $1,090,200 on the city’s FY2026 roll. Rates and the calculator → | 🏠 Open Houses Four open houses, one Saturday route Jamaica Plain at 10:30, Back Bay at 11:30, the South End at noon and Roslindale at 1. Two of the four sit near Orange Line stops, and the Orange Line is the one to lean on, with the Green Line shut downtown from Saturday. The catch is the weather: rain all day Saturday and a High Wind Warning until 2am Sunday, so confirm each one with the listing agent before you set out. Today 💨 66° / 54° Windy | Sat 🌧️ 61° / 56° Rain | Sun 🌧️ 62° / 57° Rain |
Jamaica Plain · Sat 10:30am–12:00pm $790,000 · 2 bed · 1.5 bath · a 1,018-square-foot condo in a 2011 building on Bartlett Square, a short walk from Green Street station, with a deeded garage space; the listing says the $454 monthly fee covers heat and hot water. Saturday only. | Back Bay · Sat 11:30am–12:30pm $1,599,000 · 2 bed · 1.5 bath · a renovated garden-level floor-through of 1,312 square feet on Marlborough Street, with its own entrance, a private patio and an office, two blocks from the Public Garden. Also Sunday, 10:30 to noon. | South End · Sat 12:00–1:30pm $819,900 · 2 bed · 2 bath · a 990-square-foot brownstone duplex with a bedroom on each level, a wood-burning fireplace and a private patio, near the Massachusetts Avenue stop on the Orange Line. New to the market this week. Also Sunday, 11 to 12:30. | Roslindale · Sat 1:00–2:30pm $825,000 · 4 bed · 2 bath · a 1910 Colonial of 1,750 square feet with a sun porch, a detached garage and a big backyard. The listing’s own disclosures say some work in the back room and bathroom is likely unpermitted, so ask. Saturday only. |
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. 9 A tidal marsh until the nineteenth century, when landfill turned it into a planned grid: Beacon, Marlborough, Commonwealth and Newbury run parallel, the cross streets go in alphabetical order from Arlington to Hereford, and Copley Square sits in the middle. It is also a good district for a wet weekend, with its best-known library and its biggest mall both indoors. One note: the Green Line stops at Arlington, Copley and Hynes are out of service Saturday and Sunday, so come in on the Orange Line to Back Bay station. Do · the Central Library at Copley — free to enter, with Bates Hall’s vaulted reading room and the John Singer Sargent murals in the 1895 McKim Building, plus free art and architecture tours. Hours can change in a storm, so check the library’s site before you go. | Shop · the Prudential Center — an enclosed mall on Boylston Street joined to Copley Place by the indoor Prudential Bridge, so you can shop from one end to the other without going outside. | Live here · the district table — median condo $1,090,200 across 6,911 units, median single-family $3,417,050 across 318 homes, on the FY2026 roll. A Back Bay one-bedroom in the former Hotel Victoria, 271 Dartmouth St, is open Saturday 12:30 to 1:30 at $675,000, and the Marlborough Street floor-through on today’s route is in the district too. | |
| The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday unanimously approved a four-story building with 13 parking spaces at 372 Neponset Ave. Every unit will be a two-bedroom, and two will be rented to households earning no more than 60% of the area median income, per the Dorchester Reporter. | Predicta Biosciences, a blood-cancer testing company founded by Dana-Farber and Broad Institute researchers, leased 10,500 square feet of the 196,000-square-foot Somerville building and moves in next month, per Banker & Tradesman. | The apartment listings site and brokerage announced Boston Pads Lending on Thursday, with New York-based Roc Capital supplying the money; founder Demetrios Salpoglou says banks have grown more selective about investment properties, per Banker & Tradesman. |
| The singer-songwriter’s tour stops in the Music Hall, a few steps from Fenway Park. | anaiis · Tonight 8pm · ICA, Seaport The London-based singer plays the ICA’s theater with ToriTori opening; tickets run $25 to $35, per the museum. | Stand-up on Tremont Street, one of two comedy bookings at the Boch Center tonight. | Mix your own spice blend with the Curio Spice team, under a roof on the wettest day of the weekend. | Improvised comedy performed with puppets, in the uncensored version meant for grown-ups. | Four guitarists, forty fingers: the quartet plays its arrangements of rock and pop songs on acoustic guitars. |
| Transit A track maintenance vehicle derailed at Park Street before 5am Thursday, and shuttle buses replaced trains between Boylston and Haymarket until normal service returned around 7:15. The planned shutdown for signal work in the central tunnel starts Saturday and runs through Oct. 4, per Boston.com. | Storm The utility says trees are the leading cause of storm outages, and it is shifting several crews to eastern Massachusetts so they are ready to make repairs, per 7News. The National Weather Service warns that the wind will bring down trees and power lines. | Health About 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women’s voted Thursday, two months after a one-day strike and lockout. Mass General Brigham says the union’s wage proposal would add about $90 million a year, per GBH News; the result was not in when this was written. | The 106-year-old firm signed a 15-year lease in Tishman Speyer’s 38-story Financial District tower and moves from 53 State St. next year, up from under 43,000 square feet, per Banker & Tradesman. |
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