by The Associated Press | Dec 24, 2024
The Container Store has filed for bankruptcy protection as the storage and organizational goods retailer with roots dating back to the 1970s grapples with mounting losses and cash flow shortages.
by James Sanna | Aug 23, 2022
Economists at Fannie Mae expect a significant drop in sales of existing single-family homes this year, along with a significant jump in the start of construction on multifamily buildings.
by The Associated Press | Jul 7, 2022
Federal Reserve officials were concerned at their meeting last month that consumers were increasingly anticipating higher inflation, and they signaled that much higher interest rates could be needed to restrain it.
by Banker & Tradesman | Dec 20, 2020
November was another month for the record books in Massachusetts’ real estate market, but questions are beginning to percolate: Will this pattern continue far into 2021?
by James Sanna | Dec 16, 2020
The number of new listings that hit the market in November tumbled on a month-over-month basis, but that doesn’t mean we’re running out of homes to sell.
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 28, 2020
As buyers and sellers continued to adapt to “the new normal” of the Massachusetts real estate market, both single-family home and condominium sales spiked in September on a year-over-year basis, according to a new report from The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman.
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 18, 2020
The Cape Cod real estate market continues to outperform many other sectors of the Cape’s economy; however, a dwindling lack of homes for sale threaten to set it back in the coming months.
by Banker & Tradesman | Aug 10, 2020
New listings continue to slowly climb in Greater Boston, but inventory of for-sale homes and condominiums is still far below what it was last year, Zillow reports.
by James Sanna | Jul 10, 2020
Anyone who bought a home in Massachusetts since the start of the coronavirus pandemic now faces a countdown clock to get their homes’ smoke and carbon monoxide detectors inspected.
by Banker & Tradesman | May 11, 2020
A pair of national polls, one of Realtors and the other of consumers, offer contrasting views of the housing market under the COVID-19 pandemic.
by James Sanna | May 1, 2020
With the ways residential real estate is bought and sold having changed dramatically during the pandemic, the work real estate agents do to qualify and prepare buyers is now more important than ever, top Realtors say.
by State House News Service | Apr 28, 2020
Videoconferencing may be used by notaries public to accomplish important business transactions while avoiding face-to-face meetings during the COVID-19 state of emergency, under a bill signed by Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday.
by James Sanna | Apr 24, 2020
The House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Thursday that would legalize remote notarizations during the coronavirus pandemic.
by State House News Service | Apr 23, 2020
A bill empowering notaries public to conduct business by video conference is on the move in a House committee one day after the Senate approved it.
by Banker & Tradesman | Apr 17, 2020
Over half of agents surveyed reporting they had at least one seller decide to delay the home-selling process by “a couple of months.”
by Banker & Tradesman | Mar 25, 2020
The median sale price for both single-family homes and condominiums increased last month across Massachusetts, achieving all-time highs for the month of February, according to a new report from The Warren Group, a leading provider of real estate and transaction data.
by James Sanna | Mar 21, 2020
Amid fears a halt in legally-required smoke and carbon monoxide detector inspections would cause the residential real estate market to seize up, Gov. Charlie Baker has issued an executive order waiving this requirement under certain conditions.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jan 22, 2020
Massachusetts’ year-end single-family median sale price reached $400,000 for the first time on record in 2019.
by Banker & Tradesman | Dec 26, 2019
Massachusetts single-family home sales declined in November as the median sales price continued to trend higher, according to a new report from The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman.
by Lew Sichelman | Dec 15, 2019
Some homebuyers are about to catch a break, courtesy of the Federal Reserve Board and other banking regulators.