How Will Boston’s Rent Stabilization Shake Out?
Other cities’ experiments with “rent control 2.0” offer clues to how Boston Mayor Michelle Wu may try to fulfil a key campaign promise while keeping developers on-side.
Rent Control Is Not the Answer to Our Housing Crisis
Affordable and middle-income workforce housing is critical to the region’s competitiveness, and NAIOP believes that solutions focused on housing production and expanding rental assistance are a better focus for policymakers.
Big Apartment Landlord Reports Double-Digit Rent Increases
One of Greater Boston’s biggest apartment landlords said average rents have risen by double-digits in the past year, with “robust pricing power” driving increases earlier in the year than usual.
Students, Councilors Miss Big Picture in Hotel-Dorm Battle
Northeastern’s attempt to rent hundreds of rooms in the Sheraton Boston can make a difference reducing pressure on working families’ rents by taking students out of the market. Then why aren’t NEU students supporting it?
How We Can Invest Today in a Better Tomorrow for Massachusetts
Returning to “normal” shouldn’t mean skyrocketing rents and home prices. Yet, that’s what we’re seeing happen across the state. It’s time we put the lessons learned over the last two years into practice to fix the housing crisis.
Report: Boston’s Teachers, Nurses Face Serious Rent Challenges
A new Zillow study says local teachers and nurses are limited to extremely small slices of the rental market if they aren’t living with roommates.
Redfin: Greater Boston Rents Rose Faster than Mortgage Payments
Boston rents may be rebounding as college students return to the city, but the effective cost of housing is rising more than twice as fast, according to a new report.
Market Chaos Muddies Waters
Real estate industry members should be cautious about drawing broad conclusions from current disruptions in the Greater Boston apartment market.
Suburban Landlords Win Amid Rental Market Uncertainty
Multifamily building owners in Boston find themselves scrambling to fill thousands of empty apartment units. How far does the problem reach?
Boston Rent Keeps Dropping as Sept. 1 Approaches
Boston rents have dropped 2 percent since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March, and August rents are down over 3 percent year-over-year, a new report from Apartment List shows.
Boston Rents Fall 5.8 Percent Year-Over-Year
New data from real estate analytics firm Realpage suggests the Boston rental market continues to soften amid uncertainty over demand from students living off-campus and record levels of unemployment.
Greater Boston Rents Keep Sliding
The latest report from real estate data firm Yardi Matrix shows rents in Boston continued to slide downward last month.
Zillow: Boston Rent Growth Slowed Dramatically in April
The coronavirus crisis appears to have caused a dramatic slowdown in rent growth in Greater Boston according to new data from the Zillow Group.
Boston Rent Increases Slow, City Statistics Say
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says the city’s construction boom is bearing fruit in the form of slower rent increases.
Real Estate Is in for a Rough Ride
A progressive backlash against New York’s powerful real estate industry could provide a preview of things to come here in Massachusetts, where activists are increasingly turning their wrath on developers and landlords.
Walsh: 30,422 Homes Permitted in Boston Since 2011
The city of Boston is nearly halfway to hitting Mayor Marty Walsh’s goal of creating 69,000 units of new housing by 2030, Walsh’s office announced earlier this week.
Boston Renters Eyeing Providence for Relief from Rent Hikes
An analysis of its own search data by the Zillow-owned rental listings platform HotPads has found that renters in Boston were the outside group most likely searching for rentals in Providence, where the median rent of HotPads-listed units is $630 less per month.
Boston Rents Dip In Fall
Boston rents declined 1 percent over the month of November, but are up 1.3 percent in comparison to the same time last year, according to a new report from Apartment List.
