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May 2009 Vol. 7, No. 5



The May 2009 issue of New England Condominium magazine focuses on Community Building & Amenities.

In this issue, you can read about new urbanism, community building events and building community through communication.

Visit our archives to see other articles that were published in 2009.

News Briefs

  • 06.11.09 Condominium owners are fighting to keep their trash removal service, which may be taken away. A revised agreement between Westbrook, Maine, and Casella Waste Systems to implement an automated trash and recycling program in the city proposes to remove the service altogether for hundreds of apartments and condos. [keepMEcurrent.com]
  • 06.03.09 Developers converting apartments into condos in Portland, Maine, would pay thousands in new fees to the city under a proposal being prepared by a City Council committee. The fee would be 1 percent of the sale price the first time each condominium is purchased – $2,000 for a condo unit that sells for $200,000, for instance. [Portland Press Herald]
  • 05.31.09 River views, granite countertops, stainless-steel appliances, 9-foot ceilings. This is student housing? When classes start in the fall — if all goes as planned — some 300 students at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI, will be living in Capitol Cove, an upscale condominium project languishing on the market for more than six months. [Worcester Telegram]
  • 05.23.09  Condominiums are becoming more difficult to purchase and refinance as lenders increase fees and tighten regulations to offset what they say is the higher risk of lending to buyers of condos as compared with buyers of single-family homes. [Boston Globe]
  • 04.07.09 The Planning Board in Wilbraham, Mass., has issued a decision lifting the 55 and older age restriction on a condominium project approved in 2006. [Springfield Republican]

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