A top real estate industry trade group got to take a victory lap last week as federal banking regulators announced some rule changes around how banks will be required to deal with a wave of office loans that are maturing just as future demand for office space looks shaky.
A new analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data shows too many Black and Latino first-time homebuyers are still using expensive FHA loans when much cheaper local options exist, a major housing advocacy group says.
The banks indicated they will be investing in several existing “bank locations” that will make space for yet more banks to join the partnership in the future, should any seek to do so.
The U.S. Supreme Court may have only struck down colleges’ and universities ability to use affirmative action to make sure their student bodies are more diverse, but the head of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce is warning that the ruling could threaten local companies’ efforts to diversify their workforces.
A new analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data shows the low interest rates homebuyers enjoyed in 2020 and 2021 had an outsized impact on efforts to close the racial home ownership gap in Massachusetts.
A new study from listings portal Zillow has sought to quantify the effects of a decade or more of under-building in the nation’s housing markets by estimating how many families are doubled-up – or worse – in apartments.
Former First Republic wealth manager Lewis Mai has joined Berkshire Bank’s wealth management team.
Isabel Cruz is a familiar face to some in the housing advocacy world from her time at MHP. Now, she’s taking that experience to lead Boston-area CRA work at M&T Bank as it looks to build on the work of the former People’s United Bank.
When you ask Martha’s Vineyard Bank CEO James Anthony what becoming a certified B corporation – a designation for firms that work to make the community and the planet better – changed about the bank, the answer may surprise you.
Chase Bank’s massive, five-year branch expansion campaign reached a crescendo yesterday in Harvard Square when it opened its 400th branch since the project was announced in 2018.
Packaged in a $14 billion infrastructure plan the Healey administration announced Thursday morning are hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new housing investments.
The small cluster of cabins providing supportive housing at the state’s Shattuck Hospital campus could blossom into hundreds of units for families and individuals under a redevelopment proposal from Boston Medical Center.
The Pioneer Valley banking scene has a new entrant, in the form of Liberty Bank.
A multi-billion-dollar effort to rebuild and straighten the Mass. Pike as it passes through Allston could help spur economic growth 35 miles away in Worcester, and that could give the state a leg up on its latest attempt at securing federal money for the project.
Silicon Valley Bank’s March collapse may have vanished from the headlines, but the resulting dust is far from settled as its successor and a prominent local bank jockey for the opportunity to serve Massachusetts’ tech and biotech startups.
A nationwide analysis by researchers at brokerage and listings portal Redfin has found that 4 in 5 residential mortgage borrowers have an interest rate below 5 percent, and even more have a rate below 6 percent.
The analysis by CoreLogic economists shows American homeowners with mortgages lost a combined $108.4 billion in home equity last quarter on a year-over-year basis.
Needham Bank has filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public after 131 years as a mutual bank.
A Bulfinch Triangle landlord wants to turn its short, turn-of-the-century commercial building into a new lab tower.
After a year of construction, Lee Bank’s latest branch is now set to open in Pittsfield.
