Fair housing is not an abstract concept for Realtors. It is a professional obligation and public responsibility. But only a third of licensed agents are Realtors, leaving a big gap in fair housing protections.
It isn’t even on the ballot yet, but real estate interests have started urging mayors and regional chambers of commerce to oppose an effort to revive rent control across Massachusetts.
As the fall housing market looms on the horizon, buyers could find themselves with extra options.
In August, prices continued to rise but so did sales, signaling that the demand is there in the single-family market.
Statewide sales of single-family and condominium homes are ticking up in the wake of an increase in home listings in many of Massachusetts’ housing markets while home prices also rose.
Gov. Maura Healey is still waiting for the legislature to act on her big housing bill, but she paused Monday to swear in two panels of developers, municipal leaders and advocates Monday, charged with charting more housing production reforms.
Massachusetts home sales followed a familiar pattern in November, with the numbers of both single-family houses and condominiums dropping by double-digit percentages while both property types’ median sale price marched upwards.
Real estate professionals now have myriad new tools that can be used to assist in day-to-day business activities and help streamline work, leading to more effective agents.
The latest data on the Massachusetts housing market shows that fewer houses sold across the state last month than any September since 2010, when the state was still in the grip of the Great Recession.
Home prices rose at a faster clip in August than at any time this year as record low housing inventory kept buyers outnumbering sellers.
In what’s become a familiar refrain for Massachusetts housing market-watchers, a trio of data reports issued Monday showed for-sale inventory significantly down in July, and prices rising.
Two recently released reports raised hopes that the real estate market in Massachusetts might be reheating a bit after months of slower-than-normal activity.
A new analysis of MLS data by economists at brokerage and listings portal Redfin gives shape to just how choked up Greater Boston’s housing market is right now.
As renters and would-be homebuyers face an affordability crisis, a leading trade group for the people who facilitate home sales is eyeing new building projects as the solution.
Since a testing grant program was established in 2019, it appears that one or more additional quarries could also be contaminated, and the problem’s full scope is still hard to see.
A new report out Tuesday shows surprising and potentially worrisome data points: single-digit percentage declines in the statewide and Greater Boston median home sale prices.
Homeowners continued to hold off from putting their homes on the market last month, putting a squeeze on buyers even as stabilizing mortgage rates appeared to draw more of the latter out of the woodwork, according to a trio of new data releases about the Massachusetts housing market.
Many market observers believe Massachusetts is headed for another spring of multiple offers and waived contingencies, thanks to how still-high interest rates have stabilized in recent weeks.
High mortgage rates and low inventory helped simultaneously support a rise in the state’s median home prices in February while giving a further kick to the total numbers of homes sold, experts say.
