Curbed Cup Final Four, Curbed Awards, and More

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The latest from our neighborhood-savvy sister site, Curbed Boston.

HUB-WIDE—It's so on: We're into the Final Four of the Curbed Boston Cup to pick the Hub's best neighborhood of 2012. The contenders left standing? Southie, the Seaport District, Somerville and Back Bay. Vote.

HUB-WIDE—We've begun doling out the annual Curbed Boston Awards, starting with the No. 1 Urban-Planning Idea: SomerVision. And the year's Silliest/Stupidest Feud: the one over Boston's hipness.

SOUTH BOSTON—The median sales price for a condo in the neighborhood crested $400,000 in November as condo sales jumped more than 30 percent. On the single-family side, however, sales were way down.

HUB-WIDE—Our David Bates has four tips for buyers to win in multiple-offer situations. It's an insanely tight market out there, after all.