The head of the MBTA is “very confident” the Chinese manufacturer building new Red and Orange Line trains will be able to fulfill federal requests for information that have reportedly delayed delivery of new cars to the United States.
The Small Property Owners Association pulled together a mix of landlords, brokers and real estate agents outside the State House to protest the state’s new ban on tenant-paid apartment broker fees.
By the end of next week, all 273 assisted living facilities in Massachusetts will be required to send a letter to all residents and families detailing fire safety protocols, evacuation procedures and key points of contact.
Support from architectural and engineering groups could mean breakthrough for legislation that’s billed as helping expand ranks of project managers.
The legislation aims at homes with at least three bedrooms no bigger than 1,850 square feet – in a bid to make homeownership more affordable.
The plea to get a women’s professional basketball team to Boston is cementing its roots deep within the State House as anticipation for Tuesday night’s Indiana Fever-Connecticut Sun game at TD Garden takes center stage.
Josh Kraft is centering his campaign around issues like housing, bike lanes and the reconstruction of White Stadium – all of which he calls “failed policies” of the Wu administration.
The attorney general said she will “push the town to continue to think about what happened yesterday” after Marblehead voters rejected new multifamily zoning required by the MBTA Communities Act in a special election Tuesday.
Massachusetts employers grew a bit more confident in June but remained slightly pessimistic overall in the face of federal policy changes, especially uncertainty about tariffs, according new confidence index results.
“If you’ve moved apartments recently, you’ve probably paid four months rent up front – first month, last month, security deposit and a broker’s fee for a broker you didn’t even hire,” the governor said.
A redevelopment project in Monson that could create at least 600 housing units hit a milestone as state officials began transferring 100 acres of land from a former Department of Developmental Services campus.
The unemployment rate in Massachusetts climbed once again in May, widening the gap between the state and the nation as a whole following a year of nearly flat job growth in the Bay State.
A new program tied to the 2024 housing law is being tapped to support nearly 200 new rental units in downtown Boston, part of an effort to transform vacant class B offices into housing.
The governor’s pitch to leverage the new income surtax could generate 15,000 to 20,000 construction and other jobs, the administration claims.
Total employment in the Massachusetts life sciences industry remained effectively flat in 2024, a key source of pressure for lab landlords.
Massachusetts could face billions in lost federal revenue and heightened economic risk under the second Trump administration, a budget expert warned lawmakers Thursday, but he emphasized that a broad economic downturn could deal the hardest blow.
Massachusetts banks are just some of the firms benefiting from the Healey administration’s new cuts to business regulations announced Wednesday.
More than 400 Bay Staters have filed petitions for their eviction records to be sealed since a new law took effect earlier this month, Sen. Lydia Edwards said Wednesday.
MBTA overseers on Tuesday unanimously approved the latest five-year plan to invest in systemwide improvements, embracing a $9.8 billion roadmap that one watchdog group called a “nuts and bolts” approach.
The Healey administration is proposing a strategy that also eyes building code changes to protect the Massachusetts coastline from rising seas and intensifying storms.
