Opinion
Banker & Tradesman Editorial Cartoon
It may not yet rise to the level of Sox-Yankees, but a new rivalry has been born.
Patrick’s Superstorm Solution A Drop In The Bucket?
Wow, sure is a lot cheaper dealing with climate change here in Massachusetts than down in the Big Apple, where not only real estate is more expensive, but apparently storm barriers as well.
Banker & Tradesman Editorial Cartoon
Technically you CAN live in it…
Minority Homeownership Elusive In Bay State
The Bay State is dead last in the percentage of black and Hispanic homeowners, well below old Confederate states like Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina.
Banker & Tradesman Editorial Cartoon
Bounced from Boston.
A Biotech Bust Could Be Bitter Pill To Swallow
So what happens when the biotech boom goes bust?
Banker & Tradesman Editorial Cartoon
The polar vortex is coming for your job!
Popping The Menino Myth
It’s been one incredible love fest in the local press lately for Thomas M. Menino, who just wrapped up two decades as Boston’s mayor.
2014 Preview: Tight Inventory And Even Higher Prices
The holiday season has become the last refuge for bargain-starved home buyers in the ever tighter and pricier Bay State real estate market.
New Mayor, Same Development Game?
Anyone who thinks the future of Boston development hinges on now-fading campaign promises to shake up the permitting process at City Hall needs to get a lot more cynical, and fast.
Housing-Starved Mass. Needs A Few Bright Ideas
We are on track here in Massachusetts to have the best year since the Great Recession hit when it comes to the construction of badly needed new homes, condos and apartments.
Boston Olympics Plans Don’t Pass Muster
One wonders just what Mitt Romney is thinking these days, arguing how it would be just dandy for Boston to blow tens of millions to mount a long-shot Olympic bid.
Turning Green Out Of The Silver Screen
Is it a gobbler or a gold mine?
Nearly three years after the Evergreen solar debacle, MassDevelopment is swinging for the fences again at Devens, the former military base that is now the state’s largest and most important economic development park.
Gridlock Putting Development At Risk
For such a smarty-pants state, we can be so spectacularly stupid sometimes.
Virginia is spending a couple billion dollars to expand light rail along its equivalent of our Route 128 corridor, scrambling to keep up with the rapid development of big Washington suburbs.
Memo To Walsh: Don’t Let Fenway Center Suffer
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino loves to play favorites when it comes to developers, with the mayor’s builder friends too often entering City Hall with project plans and exiting with tax breaks in hand.
Forget Gambling: Suffolk Downs Has Mixed-Use Development Potential
Is it finally time to put Suffolk Downs out to pasture? East Boston’s stunning rejection of Suffolk’s grand plans to build a billion-dollar gambling resort should serve as a wakeup call to Boston Mayor-elect Marty Walsh as well as the track’s casino-hungry owners.
Changing Of The Guard
New boss, but same old, slow and stinky way at Boston City Hall of vetting big development projects, at least for the foreseeable future.
Dearly Departed Disclosures
The economics professor and blogger Tyler Cowen has a series of posts on how there's Markets In Everything. This here blog might have to launch a similar feature on how there's Real Estate Search Sites for Everything. Plenty of sites will tell you how to find a pad...
The Bias Against Building For Families
Incredibly, you can add the humble three-bedroom apartment to the list of undesirable development towns and suburbs across Massachusetts want to ban.
After Caesars Rejection, What Next?
Apparently Massachusetts wants Las Vegas-style resort casinos, just not the global giants like Caesars that actually know how to build and operate them.
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