Cabot and Company Real Estate

Fifty reviews landed in the last six months, and forty-nine of them are five stars — most written by renters who found a Boston apartment on a deadline, several without setting foot in it first. Cabot & Company runs out of 213 Newbury Street, and what people overwhelmingly hire it for is rentals: touring units, getting an application through, and signing a lease. The name renters use is almost never the firm's. It's Gabby, Andrew, Iana, Wes — individual agents, praised by name, for one trait above all others: they answer fast. One group toured, applied, signed, and made their upfront payments inside a week. Another had a lease signed two days after first contact on an apartment they called ideal. Google sits at 4.9 across 234 ratings, and the history behind it runs deep — 156 reviews since 2021 across four sources, not a sudden burst. A striking share of these renters were arriving from somewhere else. Roommates relocating to Boston who couldn't tour in person got virtual walkthroughs from Gabby; one cross-country mover watched a video tour, then met her in person when the schedules finally lined up. Andrew Bemben set up a remote tour for renters searching from out of state and sent daily listing updates while they looked. A few people first found the listing through TikTok videos of a specific building, then reached out from there. If you're apartment-hunting from another time zone, that's the concrete thing this office does well. Cabot also manages buildings, and tenants who lived in them describe maintenance handled quickly — one former tenant said problems were frequently resolved the same day, and that calls and emails were answered at any hour. Another renter, working on the sales side, called the operation transparent and honest. The one sour note is recent and specific. An April 2026 reviewer described agent Rene Rodriguez — encountered both as a tenant in a property he oversees and as a prospective buyer — as dismissive, unnecessarily aggressive, and unresponsive, and said he mocked people's backgrounds. It's a single account against a long run of positive ones, but it points at something the praise also points at: with this office, your experience tracks the individual agent more than the letterhead. So: a reasonable call if you're renting in Boston's core neighborhoods, especially remotely and under time pressure. Ask who you'll actually be paired with, and get their responsiveness tested early — that's the thing renters here consistently got, and the thing the one unhappy reviewer says he didn't.