Here to help you buy the right home and sell for the best price in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts.
And I welcome the opportunity to answer your questions about the market, your home and the community.
My name is Charles Cherney, and I am a top residential real estate broker at Compass in Harvard Square.
Experienced - A top real estate broker in Cambridge and Somerville, MA since 1999. Informed - Harvard graduate, local resident, and knowledgeable pro. Engaged - Right by your side every step of the way as your trusted real estate advisor.
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The prices for housing ( renting and owning ) in the last 4 years under BIDEN has spiraled out of sight. I'm so glad that I lived in the 1950's and 60's and 70's when the prices on everything was a lot more affordable than it is now. Everyone should quit their job and join the ranks of the Welfare recipients who pay ZILCH for everything. Generation after generation and they are still on welfare.
I worked at the STOP & SHOP on Mass ave. across from St. JOHN'S church in the late 1950's. My mom is buried in the cemetery on RINDGE ave. In between the low income housing project and the French church....My friends and I would frequent the BURGER RANCH DRIVE-IN restaurant at the corner of Fresh Pond Parkway and RINDGE Ave. The 50's and early 60's was a nice period of time to live in.
Another good video! Thank you, Mr. Chearney! (Sp?) I recently moved to Cambridge. But only renting for now (otherwise, I obviously, would’ve looked up your real estate office)! I live just a mile away from Formaggio, and walk around both FP and MAC often. (I started abbreviating because I write about them so often).
I ran track and field at TRUM FIELD in the 1940's, as all the playgrounds competed for trophys ......Needless to say, I ran for Lincoln Park and lost......Never hung out in Magoun SQ , even though I later lived in WINTER HILL off of MEDFORD St.....
What a shame what they have done with Harvard. Who ever thought it would turn out like this. Too much money by hedge funders, bankers etc totally corrupted it and will lead to its demise
Thirty something years ago, when I moved to the Boston area, my college friend S.who was here as an optometry school, took me on a tour of Harvard. One foot on the campus, and S. turns to me, sighs, and says half-jokingly, half-seriously, “I feel like my IQ jumped 100 points.” I thought that was both funny and cute, but he’s right! I felt the same way.
That red brick flat iron shapped building across from the firehouse on the corner of Hampshire and Cambridge was the old REXALL DRUG store that had 3 separate ways to get in the store.....Next to it was the Bowling Ally downstairs and next to that was a BARBER SHOP.....I have the whole square in my memory and it's still sharp even though i'll be 90 next year...Oh, I guess they tore down the INMAN SQUARE THEATRE too.....We paid 8 CENTS in the 1940's to get in and they put 2 kids in a seat in the balcony that would Never be allowed now.....I would like to go back there one more time....
I was born 2 minutes from INMAN SQ. and spent 31 years in that area.....I sold newspapers to all the patrons in the bowling alleys, the Bars, the stores and anyone on the street who had a nickle to spend.......My brother worked for LEGAL CASH MARKET IN the 1940's before they opened LEGAL SEA FOODS next door.....In those years we had no supermarkets so you had do your shopping in the fruit and vegetable store, the butter coffee and egg store, the bakery store, the small grocery store and the 5 and 10 cent store.......Let me see, I was also hit by a car in the square and when I got up off the ground and walked away, the driver drove away also and nobody cared... One other thing, when the japs surrendered in W. W. 2 on August 1945, I was in the square with hundreds of people cheering and kissing and honking their car horns.....I'll be 90 next year and have lots more memories of INMAN SQUARE..
Julia Child use to shop for her groceries at SAVENORS groceries and beer and wine store at the corner of BEACON and Kirkland st. As you stated only I've been in there for some things in the late 1950's, as my garage was across the intersection on BEACON st...... SAVAS
Que bien estoy comprando casa trabajo MIT soy mujer sola y. No llego a la compra el tiempo de dios perfecto este país de en de pensar mujer sola facilidad de pago
Very nice video, Mr. Charles! I fell in love with Harvard Square over 30 years ago. I remember when the Wursthaus and Tasty (spelling?) were there. Does “Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe” still have their window sign up?
Found your post interesting to watch. I can't wait to see your new videos soon. Good Luck with the upcoming update. This RU-vid channel is very informative and effective.
CORRECTION - 3.5 BATHS in 116 Prospect Street. The other unit here is 114 Prospect and 114 Prospect has 4.5 BATHS. See 114 Prospect at www.cambridgerealestate.com/114-prospect-street-cambridge
What a brilliant video. Great advice, simple and practical. I like your video presentation. It is informative too, at the same time. Thanks a lot for your guidance!
Cambridgeport is technically from Putnam Ave to Central Square. The area from Putnam Ave to the Charles River is called the Coast. I grew up there so I should know.
hello i am a 16y/o from cambridge looking to start my real estate journey straight out of high school. do you have any tips or things i can do to get me in the right direction before then.
