Cosmo Catalano surveys the current offerings around Louisburg Square.

On myDedham, Brian compares the sale prices of the first 13 houses sold in town this year with the values listed in town assessing records. Even taking out the outliers, the average is 18% less than assessed values.

Southie state rep to Allston/Brighton: You suck.

Allston blogger to Southie state rep: Knock it off.

Aaron Weber adds real estate to the list of things he can't expect the Globe to cover well, after reading a piece in the Sunday real-estate section about foreclosures in the two cities, which is accompanied by a large map that shows the problem is far, far worse in another city:

... In Lawrence, the foreclosure rate is nearly double that of even the most hard-hit areas in the Route 2 West corridor. You want to write about a housing crisis, and you ignore Lawrence? Is that more of a Herald town or something? ...

He also uses the Globe's own stats to ponder why the story didn't examine the possibility that the relatively high foreclosure rates in northern Worcester were due to fraud rather than a financial crisis.

Redfin, an online real-estate venture, this week fired up Redfin Sweet Digs Boston, a group effort by four "real estate addicts," to cover the local real-estate market (really, can I not come up with another phrase to describe "real estate"?).

Compare to the Boston Condo and Luxury Real Estate Blog, Brookline Connection, and, of course, the granddaddy of them all, John Keith's Boston Real Estate Blog (other local real-estate blogs I'm missing?).

Amy Derjue poses the question after reading a report on a 600% (!) increase in Massachusetts since 2005 and then following that up with a BostonNow report that the Massachusetts economy is doing just fine.

The Boston Condo Guy reports on new prices at the Claflin Building Residences at Twenty Beacon, a four-unit condo development on Beacon Hill (hmm, do they have a shuttle to the Mall at Chestnut Hill?). After being on the market for several months last year, none of the $2-million+ units sold. Now three of of the four units are back on the market with reduced prices. But the penthouse, despite going unsold last year at $4.4 million, is back on the market at a higher price.

Shirley Kressel discusses competing property-relief bills now in the Legislature from Deval Patrick and Tom Menino.

Boston Condo Guy reports that $15-million condo in the Back Bay has been taken off the market after 200 days without a sale. Instead, it's been re-split into two units, one of which is now available for a mere $7 million.

Chris Lovett ponders some recent prices for three-decker condos that would have been outrageous two years ago, never mind in today's less heated market - and why it may not be a good thing for the neighborhood.