Betting on the Berkshires.

The article focuses on the growing number of urban transplants and second-home hunters who are getting their own homes in Berkshires, a county in Massachusetts. Topics covered include features of the Berkshires that attract real estate developers and house hunters to the county, work of Ben Svenson of development company Broder in renovating and finding second homes for his friends, increase in sales and prices of homes at the Berkshires and its transformation as a cultural corridor.