Last night on CNBC’s Mad Money with Jim Cramer, the show had some interesting news for those watching the real estate market. Jim Cramer was sadly pointing out that despite the facts, the housing sector continues to be the whipping boy for the media. His primary example, the venerable Wall Street Journal.

On July 28th the WSJ ran a headline that said “Home Prices Rise but Outlook for Sector Dims.” Then again yesterday they ran a similar story, “Home Prices Edge Up but Outlook Darkens.” So despite continued good news in the actual market, we’ve gone from a dimming of the market to a darkening. If this “look at the facts don’t listen to the headlines” story sounds familiar it’s because I said this a month ago. (See Here) So what has all this fear mongering cost us? Well according to Cramer it’s cost us a 10% dip in the market. On the upside it’s probably done wonders to boost attendance Stephen Colbert’s Keep Fear Alive March. Remember, always look at the actual numbers not the headlines.

The negativity about what’s currently going on in the housing market on the nightly news needs to stop! The major problem with it, real estate is local! So, what might be true in Miami isn’t necessarily true in Boston. Take a look at this video to see what’s really going on in Boston’s Back Bay when it comes to housing.

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1 Bed Charts

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After doing some exhaustive research into what’s really happened to the Boston Condo Market for the past decade, we thought we’d release this little nugget of information for you. The best size condo to invest in from 2000-2009 in Back Bay was a studio. I know this probably catches quite a number of you off guard, with many thinking that buying a 1 bed would have been a good idea, but it was studios that gained the most value.

From 2000-2009 the price/sq.ft. for studio’s in Back Bay increased 87%! This was well above the next best investment, (1 beds) which came in at increase of 58%. The real loser so to speak for the decade was 3 beds or more which only increased 25% on price/sq. ft. basis.

The Real Estate Wars between Tom Brady and wife Gisele maybe done for the time being, but it’s far from over. Tom Brady’s house has been pulled off the market after 144 days without a single price drop. The monster home with over 5300 sq. ft. of space and priced at $10.9 million has been marked as withdrawn from the MLS. So are we likely to see this property come back on sometime soon? I think so, I’m surprised no one picked up this property already considering the owner. I guess until the next round we will just have to wait and see who wins this war.