Boston’s housing supply shortage has reached a tipping point. Allowing landlords to add bedrooms to apartments without the slow, confusing and expensive variance process will rapidly address this vast need.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell is going on a trip…and packing a sizable toolbox to deal with towns that haven’t yet complied with MBTA Communities zoning reforms.
Commercial leases typically give landlords several rights and remedies when tenants default. But for some landlords these remedies are not enough, so they add rent acceleration as an additional remedy.
For too long, office design was about a kit of parts – matching desks, file cabinets, chairs – all easily rearranged on a dime. The advent of hybrid work changed all that.
Uncle Sam’s chief financial watchdog agency has fired a warning shot across the bow of consumer-facing comparison sites and mobile apps that steer consumers to the lenders that pay the sites the most.
The office towers, large residential buildings and institutions of Greater Boston are already major employment centers. Now they can be central to creating new, equitable jobs in the green economy.
What does Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s decision to ban outdoor dining in the North End have to do with her increasingly controversial real estate policies? More than you might think.
CambridgeSeven used parametric design to translate the unique Voronai diagram into a primary design element for exhibits at the new Broad Discovery Center in Cambridge.
When Scape began planning its first residential development in Boston, the city was already grappling with a significant housing shortage. Four years and a pandemic later, that project, “The Bon,” recently opened to prospective tenants.
If we don’t move now, the world will move on without us, and not in ways that get us where we need to go. Just look at Burlington for a concrete example.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s rent control plan is out, and no one’s happy about it.
The $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure law had an unintended consequence: Forcing affordable housing developments to abide by expensive and potentially unavailable U.S.-produced materials. Now there’s relief.
An MBTA bus network that keeps pace with a growing and changing population is key to a functioning transit system and regional economy. Ours isn’t, but there’s still time to get it back on the road to success.
The shift toward all-electric living is underway. But if you are a buyer in today’s new home market, how do you navigate the transition to make sure your house is not outdated before you’ve hardly settled in?
New lab buildings are shouldering most of the load keeping Boston’s tax base growing, and city data shows the construction boom is still rolling. But not everything is OK.
But the threat of legal action shouldn’t motivate towns and cities to do their part in fixing the housing crisis. There are far better reasons to rezone for more multifamily housing.
Homebuyers and agents alike could soon benefit from a new listing portal with all the online bells and whistles they’ve come to expect – but with better service on the ground and no-fee leads.
Our new minority-led real estate investment vehicle has been developed specifically to build wealth in minority communities and to tackle the real foundation of the affordability crisis: wealth creation.
The big drop in home sales last year wasn’t a sign the market is crashing It was a sign Massachusetts was coming off an unsustainable two years. Here’s what that means for the market in 2023.
The Massachusetts real estate market has been one of the hottest in the country over the last 12 months, despite the overall cooling the last six months had as mortgage rates rose.
