Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: We Found a Cheaper Building Material
At some point, you might as well just build the house out of cash to save some money.
At some point, you might as well just build the house out of cash to save some money.
Reality has yet to catch up with all the years of hype about the promise of “Midtown,” maybe best known for the posh Millennium Tower and the hum-drum shopping district it lords over.
With the mask mandate going away, it’s getting hard to get back to normal, at least when it comes to our social lives.
Anyone hoping builders will be putting up enough houses to alleviate the shortage on the market may just as well wish to see the tooth fairy.
One sure sign we’re returning to normal? The MBTA’s newest trains have found a new way to break.
More and more sellers are hoping for a windfall, listing now before the seller’s market runs out of steam. But it’s not always as simple as waiting for a horde of buyers to arrive with all the money they can muster.
What in the world is going on out in deepest blue Amherst? Plans for two new mixed-used projects in place of tired downtown retail plazas are drawing the ire of long-time residents.
The Biden Administration has proposed spending a stunning $213 billion to tackle our nation’s growing affordable housing crisis. But in the end, all that extra cash sloshing around will fuel bidding wars for an artificially limited number of urban sites.
A recent column about would-be homebuyers giving up because they keep losing bidding wars brought a flurry of responses: Readers want to know how they can become winners in this arena.
There are so many lab developments going on, Boston’s very urban fabric is changing.
It’s a brief pause on a trajectory of diminishing political pull that is only headed down unless we can rein in the high cost and high hassle of living in Greater Boston
“There is a tidal wave of distressed homeowners who will need help in the coming months,” said Dave Uejio, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Do you think we’ve downsized the office too much?
An anti-gun violence activist, John Rosenthal may be best known for the Stop Handgun Violence billboard that used to hang along the Turnpike as it passed Boston’s Kenmore Square. Now maybe it’s finally time to start taking Rosenthal seriously as a developer as well.
Over the next few months, the White House is likely to propose two major tax changes that could impact the housing sector. These two ideas, however, should be chucked in the circular file.
Rockland Trust and East Boston Savings Bank are assembling a mighty titan to do battle with other regional lenders.
More people want to buy a home than ever before, with our “K-shaped” recovery sending demand through the roof. Yet never has there been so little to choose from, with sellers holding back from trying the market due to COVID-19, making a long-standing shortage of new construction that much worse.
Everyone, it has been said, enjoys their 15 minutes of fame. But these days, that’s just about all the time homebuyers are allowed to give a house the once-over and make a decision.
A real estate agent gives his clients some unfiltered advice.
As the market for vacation homes continues to forge ahead at an almost unprecedented pace, the two major suppliers of financing funds have put a lid on the number of mortgages for such properties they will buy from primary lenders.