The Financial Times gave the SoWa neighborhood its close-up, over the weekend.

Savvy Bostonians in search of a home have started to look even further afield. Their latest focus is SoWa – the series of parallel streets “south of Washington”, including Washington Street itself as well as Harrison Avenue and Albany Street.

The neighborhood's limits are ill-defined. Many people think of it as the area below Washington Street, between West Dedham Street and East Berkeley Street, but others would say it extends beyond West Dedham, all the way to Massachusetts Avenue (past the Boston Medical Center).

Whatever.

John Keith, an independent real estate broker who has worked in the South End for six years, agrees. “It’s becoming a neighbourhood where you can get out of work on Friday and stay there all weekend long – go out for drinks with colleagues, meet up with friends for dinner and do your Saturday shopping.”

The push south out of the city centre has been helped by Boston’s strict regulations on building height, he adds. “There’s a lot of pressure to build out, not up,” he says. “SoWa benefits from that because it’s basically an extension of the South End.”

I had a long, 30-minute conversation with the reporter of this story (who lives nearby, actually). I made some clever and astute observations which, unfortunately, never made their way into the story.

Still, a pretty detailed article on this hot neighborhood.

Read on: The smart money moves south - By Rebecca Knight, Financial Times