A South Carolina-based mortgage servicing company has agreed to settle with the Massachusetts attorney general over allegations that the company did not follow state requirements to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.
A Brockton company specializing in asbestos remediation is expected to shut down after repeatedly exposing construction workers to asbestos.
Candidate for governor Maura Healey on Sunday denied she’s abandoning some of her boldness to avoid making a campaign misstep and promised to help create a “whole climate corridor” in Massachusetts to help the world move away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.
Can a public relations campaign talking up the need for new housing, coupled with some modest incentives, convince NIMBY suburbs to change their ways? Count me as skeptical.
Attorney General Maura Healey and Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll began to put meat on the bones of their pledges to boost housing production and affordability Wednesday.
With the final match-up between Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidates now clear, the stakes for the real estate industry in November’s general election are starting to come into focus.
A rental listings platform allegedly took advantage of renters seeking affordable housing by luring them into paying to see fake apartment listings, according to a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission and six state attorneys general, including Attorney General Maura Healey.
Texas-based Fay Servicing LLC has agreed to settle with the Massachusetts attorney general over allegations that the national mortgage servicer engaged in unfair and deceptive conduct with borrowers.
Speaking to a Seaport District ballroom packed with Greater Boston’s business elite this morning, gubernatorial front-runner Maura Healey said she would back local rent control measures and make housing production a focus of her administration if she wins in November.
Attorney General Maura Healey supports local-option rent control bills, her gubernatorial campaign spokesperson said, after Healey told GBH News’ “Boston Public Radio” program that she did not think rent control bills were a solution to the area’s high – and rising – rents.
Two proptech companies will pay $100,000 in fines to the state and revamp their products after settling charges brought by Attorney General Maura Healey’s office that their software let apartment landlords discriminate against tenants.
The ability for a municipality to require all-electric new construction was not among the Baker administration’s proposed state building code changes meant to encourage builders to shift away from fossil fuel heating in favor of electrification, but Attorney General Maura Healey has told the administration that it has the legal authority to propose such a policy.
An Acton pool and patio contractor has been banned from owning, running or helping lead a construction company in Massachusetts following a settlement with Attorney General Maura Healey’s office.
A Texas man who rented a trio of condemned North Adams properties out under “lease-to-own” deals is facing a $60,000 fine under a settlement obtained by Attorney General Maura Healey’s office.
The Massachusetts housing market, distorted by a chronic shortage of homes, condominiums and apartments and plagued by ever-more-obscene prices and rents, needs a new champion. Marty Walsh could be the one.
Having trouble deciding his next political move, Gov. Charlie Baker is turning to an old standby for advice about the future.
U.S. Bank has agreed to cancel more than $230,000 in student debt for former students of the now-closed New England Institute of Art as part of a settlement with the Massachusetts attorney general’s office involving lines of credit the art school provided to students.
The kind of small-bore politics and insider political jockeying that have dominated the state political scene for decades – as we’ll see unfold as the gubernatorial race gets going – come at the expense of any real effort to tackle the ongoing housing crisis.
A Braintree-based property management company has settled allegations that it violated state fair housing laws and discriminated against deaf apartment applicants.
A national mortgage servicing company will pay nearly $1 million to Massachusetts residents to settle allegations related to its handling of requests to modify loans and avoid foreclosure.
