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About this home
Presenting Arlington & Cortes, a portfolio of four (4) beautiful brownstone buildings - 1-5 Cortes Street and 143 Arlington Street - featuring 58 furnished short term rental units, located in Boston's Bay Village/Back Bay. Each building is a licensed lodging house enabling the short term rental operation. The building interiors are updated and recent building capital improvements include new roofs, re-pointed facades and life safety systems. The properties are situated in Boston’s most coveted neighborhood - Bay Village/Back Bay, surrounded by demand generators and incredible amenities. The properties are convenient to public transportation/subways and major highways (I-90, I-93), and centrally located to Boston’s employment hubs in the Back Bay, Financial District, and Longwood Medical Area. The portfolio presents a unique combination of value-add potential through enhanced occupancy and operations, with incredibly stable existing cash flow.
Highlights
Property details
- MLS #
- 73431804
- Property type
- 5+ Family - Rooming House
- Subdivision
- N/A
- Status
- Active
- Days on market
- 379
- On market date
- September 17, 2025
- Stories
- 18
- Total bathrooms
- 9
- Garage spaces
- N/A
- Parking spaces
- N/A
- Lot size
- 0.13 acres
Location
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Within 10 miles. School directory data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), accessed via the Urban Institute Education Data API. Local Score is calculated by INNOVATE Real Estate; where a state rating is shown, it comes from that state's own official school report card (e.g. NC Dept. of Public Instruction, SC Report Card).
- Enrollment
- 711
- Student:teacher ratio
- 10.9:1
- District
- Boston
- Enrollment
- 317
- Student:teacher ratio
- 10.2:1
- District
- UP Academy Charter School of Boston (District)
- Enrollment
- 553
- Student:teacher ratio
- 13.5:1
- District
- Boston
Walkability
Blended score for Boston's center, calculated by INNOVATE Real Estate from two sources: the EPA's National Walkability Index (street network, transit, land-use mix) and Google Places amenity data (what's actually reachable on foot from this point). 60% EPA National Walkability Index + 40% nearby-amenity density (Google Places).
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Data source: Listing information provided by MLS Property Information Network via Trestle/CoreLogic. Last updated September 21, 2025.
Information herein deemed reliable but not guaranteed; all measurements, school assignments, HOA fees, taxes, and feature lists are approximate and should be independently verified. Equal Housing Opportunity.


