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Buy, sell or build income property in Greater Boston.

Apartment buildings, two- to four-families, land and development sites. Choose Boston helps investors underwrite deals honestly, read what zoning allows, and sell to the buyers who pay for income.

First building? A two- to four-family you live in is the classic Boston start. Read the house-hacking guide

  • Licensed Massachusetts brokerage
  • Live listings from MLS PIN
  • Zoning and development experience
Two- and three-family houses on a Boston street

The Boston triple-decker

Live in one unit, rent the other two

On the market

Buildings and land for sale now.

238 Chelsea Street1 / 24
New · Active

$6,100,000

26 bd · 26 ba · 15,464 sqft · Multi-Family

238 Chelsea Street

Everett, MA 02149

Listing courtesy of Tony Pepdjonovic, Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services · MLS PIN #73592372

Quad At Doble1 / 26
New · Active

$74,000,000

99 bd · 99 ba · 82,602 sqft · Multi-Family

Quad At Doble

Cambridge, MA 02138

Listing courtesy of Christopher Sower, Cushman & Wakefield · MLS PIN #73592418

1539 Beacon Street1 / 15
New · Active

$21,750,000

99 bd · 85.5 ba · 37,670 sqft · Multi-Family

1539 Beacon Street

Brookline, MA 02446

Listing courtesy of Kevin Benzinger, Boston Realty Advisors · MLS PIN #73592434

How we help investors

Numbers you can check, before you offer.

Underwriting you can check

Rent roll, real expenses, vacancy and comparable sales, so you see the cap rate and cash flow before you write an offer.

How we underwrite a multi-family

Zoning and what a parcel can hold

By-right or variance, lot coverage, ADUs and the new MBTA Communities districts: we read land the way a zoning board will.

Land & development

Finding the deal

Saved searches across MLS PIN for buildings and land that fit, plus introductions through our network of brokers and owners.

1031 exchanges on the clock

Replacement property identified inside the 45-day window, working alongside your qualified intermediary and attorney.

First building, owner-occupied

Two- to four-families bought to live in one unit, with the financing advantage and the honest downsides laid out.

House hacking in Boston

Selling to investor buyers

Priced on income, marketed to the buyers who pay for it, with tenant notice and showings handled with care.

Apartment building sales
Hunter Perry

Your investment lead

Hunter Perry invests and builds, too.

  • 15+ years in Greater Boston, with dozens of multifamily and commercial transactions closed.
  • General Partner at a Boston development firm that owns and operates a large portfolio of co-living properties.
  • Serves on the Wayland Zoning Board of Appeals, so he reads a parcel the way a board will.
  • First employee on the ground at Compass in New England, with relationships across the region's residential and commercial brokers.

Get started

Tell us the deal you're after.

Send your criteria and we'll come back with buildings and land that fit, new ones as they list, and a first read on the numbers. Selling? We'll value it on income, the way buyers will.

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