Strip Malls: Housing’s New Frontier

As the region’s suburbs work to tackle their housing, environmental, economic and racial justice challenges, one of the keys to success may be hiding in plain sight: the humble strip mall. Learn more at an MAPC webinar on Jan. 11. 

State Must Step Up to Help Towns Succeed

A planning process underway in Burlington this winter could be the herald of a dramatic and much-needed reinvention of Greater Boston’s suburbs. But it also exposes a fatal flaw in how Massachusetts thinks about its future.

Community Good Works

From raising tens of thousands of dollars with athletic feats to giving a reason for families to celebrate, real estate brokerages, banks, credit unions and construction firms helped make the world a better place recently.

Is Market White-Hot, or Just Red-Hot?

Where is the housing market headed? After all the data from the chaotic spring selling season is in, we are left to read the tea leaves and what they might suggest about the fall market’s direction. A few patterns seem to be emerging out of recent market data.

Hot Property: 225 Wyman St.

Cambridge-based software company Pegasystems has signed the first lease at Hobbs Brook Real Estate’s speculative office development in Waltham.