Margaret Carlson broke barriers throughout her life: a career-minded woman who started her own business in the 1950s, and the first woman to sit on Boston’s powerful “Vault” committee in 1977.
The tail end of Massachusetts’ fall home sales are finally winding their way through the closing process, and the results aren’t pretty: numbers of single-family and condominium sales are down by big double-digit percentages year-over-year.
A spike in Massachusetts condominium sales prices in October may not be a signal of a flight to affordability so much as be a sign that developments under construction over the last few years are finally coming online.
Massachusetts homebuyers and sellers kept staying away from the housing market last month – so many, in fact, that the number of closed single-family sales was lower than October since the Great Recession ended in 2012.
The median single-family sale price saw the smallest year-over-year percentage gain of the last six months, as the Massachusetts housing market continues to slow.
Massachusetts’ housing market measurably cooling, but inventory is – so far – not rocketing upwards. The causes, experts say, are complex.
We like to think there is no better place than Massachusetts, a recent report shows we are losing ground quickly to other, cheaper states.
The number of home sales across Massachusetts took another hit last month – typically the heart of the busy spring homebuying season – as prices for single-family homes hit an all-time high according to new data from The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman.
Massachusetts’ home sales figures slid downward for yet another month in March, as the state’s housing shortage and rising interest rates continued to bite.
New reports from the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and online brokerage Redfin shows that the February housing market began heating up.
As the new year opened, fewer homes were for sale in Massachusetts than at any time in the last 23 years, helping send the median single-family and condominium sale prices to record highs for yet another month.
After a legislative committee last week advanced bills that would allow municipalities where local officials had already signed off on the idea to impose a new fee on certain housing transactions, a pair of real estate groups are voicing concerns.
Looking back, expansion of RAFT and creation of the Eviction Diversion Initiative demonstrated incredible foresight, leaving Massachusetts well-positioned to continue protecting housing stability for the foreseeable future.
Massachusetts home sales totals in October were consistent with pre-pandemic levels as buyer behavior continued its return to normal cycles, real estate experts said. At the same time, though, inventory remained depressed forcing prices significantly higher.
Massachusetts saw a slight downturn in the number of single-family houses sold last month compared to the pre-pandemic norm, leaving some observers to question whether the pool of potential homebuyers has shrunk, and others to conclude the let-up is only temporary.
Massachusetts has anti-discrimination laws on the books, but experts and advocates warn that insufficient training and a lack of enforcement allows discriminatory housing practices to fester, curtailing the options for many who already face other obstacles.
The benefits of home ownership to an individual and to a community are numerous and expansive, and the Massachusetts Association of Realtors is proud to support a state bill to help first-time buyers.
FHA loans are exploding in popularity. But their users – often Black and Latinx first-time buyers – can lose in multiple-offer situations. What can be done?
This year on Realtor Day on Beacon Hill, the strength of our collective involvement will be on display via remote platforms as we head into what we hope is the home stretch of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The number of single-family houses and condominiums for sale in Massachusetts grew substantially in nearly all of the state’s major markets last month, and market-watchers say the hot market could moderate later this year.
