Bounded by Beacon Street, Bowdoin Street, Cambridge Street and Storrow Drive, Beacon Hill Real Estate is one of the more prominent neighborhoods within the City of Boston and Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Beacon Hill Real Estate covers approximately one square mile and is home to about 10,000 residents. It is a wealthy neighborhood of Federal-style rowhouses, with some of the highest property values in the United States.

Beacon Hill Real Estate is a 19th-century downtown Boston residential neighborhood situated directly north of the Boston Common and the Boston Public Garden. Most people think of city living as anonymous and isolating. But this cozy enclave, filled with nearly 10,000 people, is more like a village than an anonymous city. It has a rich community life, with neighbors knowing neighbors and everyone meeting on the Hill's commercial streets and at its myriad activities. It is known for its narrow streets, brick sidewalks, and gas-lit streets.

Like many similarly named areas, the neighborhood is named for the location of a former beacon atop the highest point in central Boston, once located just behind the current site of the Massachusetts State House. The hill, and two other nearby hills, were substantially reduced in height to allow the development of housing in the area and to create land by filling part of the Back Bay at the foot of the hill.

The Beacon Hill area is generally bounded by Beacon Street on the south, Somerset Street on the east, Cambridge Street to the north and Storrow Drive along the riverfront of the Charles River Esplanade to the west. The block bounded by Beacon, Tremont and Park Streets is included as well, as is the Boston Common itself. The level section of the neighborhood west of Charles Street, on landfill, is known locally as the "Flat of the Hill." Nearby Acorn Street, a narrow lane paved with cobblestones, is often mentioned as the most picturesque (or the most frequently photographed) street in Boston. The Beacon Hill neighborhood is also memorialized in American pop culture as the location of the fictional "Cheers" bar from the popular sitcom; opening shots and some interior scenes were inspired by the Bull and Finch Bar on Beacon Street.

Popular residents of Beacon Hill, past and present, include colonial leader and revolutionary statesman John Hancock, author Louisa May Alcott, Julia Ward Howe, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," statesmen John Hancock, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Cabot Lodge, Daniel Webster, poet Robert Frost, entertainer Carly Simon, politician John Kerry and popular business leader Jack Welch..

Because the Massachusetts State House is in a prominent location at the top of the hill, the term "Beacon Hill" is also often used in the local news media to refer to the state government or the legislature.

For more information on activities in and around Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, visit:

Beacon Hill Online
Massachusetts Vacations - Boston and Cambridge Region
Greater Boston Convention & Visitor Bureau

Beacon Hill Homes and Real Estate

Beacon Hill real estate includes a wide variety of homes for sale, condos for sale, estates, water access properties, active adult communities, hobby farms and executive properties. Whether you're presently a home buyer or home seller, we're confident we can help you achieve your real estate goals.

Sellers who have been in the area for a while know our reputation for knowledgeable advice, enthusiastic service, creative marketing and professional networking. We mine every source for interested buyers so you can feel at ease that your home will attract value and that it will remain in good hands.

For buyers new to the area, David Laven will provide the specialized services you deserve: a strong work ethic, personal real estate expertise to help define your needs, help with selecting and securing standard financing for your purchase, special technology, constant communication throughout the transaction, and more. Our many years living and working in the area, combined with our cumulative years of experience in real estate, means we can cover all aspects of your search, from existing homes for sale, properties for sale, lots, vacant land, new construction, 55-plus and retirement communities, investment properties, waterfront, golf and recreational properties, all the way to luxury villas, estates and executive homes.

So when you're ready to buy or sell real estate in or around Beacon Hill, Massachusetts, please let David Laven help you purchase the home or property of your dreams. Contact David Laven today!

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