Acknowledging the widespread support for a ballot question to legalize rent control, a landlord group is asking the Legislature to approve an alternate ballot question encouraging voluntary rent stabilization.
Skyrocketing rents, tougher eviction laws and increasingly sophisticated AI tools are all fueling a spike in rental-application fraud across Massachusetts.
Gov. Maura Healey thinks a statewide rent control proposal likely headed for the 2026 ballot would harm efforts to bring down housing costs.
Landlords with Section 8 tenants are only getting 25 percent of their payments from the Boston Housing Authority this month. Blame last month’s federal government shutdown.
What happens when the person buying your house dies before the closing date? Or when your tenant passes away mid-lease?
If you’ve ever written a check to have grass mowed and said to yourself, “No one ever uses that grass,” we have an idea for you.
The Wu administration is focusing on how to wean Boston’s vast inventory of aging apartments off fossil fuels. But with electricity costs sky-high, landlord groups are wary.
We’ll need industry-wide coordination to fight a proposed ballot question that aims to repeal Massachusetts’ ban on rent control. With your help, we’ll stop it again.
Landlords will have options to offset the cost, but compliance will be crucial as failure to follow the rules could be costly, experts say.
Potential cuts to federal Section 8 vouchers could put landlords in an uncomfortable position and hurt housing production.
House of Representatives leaders didn’t just add several billion dollars of additional housing funding to Gov. Maura Healey’s big bonding-and-policy bill earlier this month. They also added a measure anathema to real estate trade groups.
It would cause landlords statewide to raise application minimums for income, credit and other screening metrics. It would ignore the clear alternative to the problem of discrimination based on past evictions.
With a champion for eviction record sealing now chairing the Joint Committee on Housing, tenants rights advocates are feeling a renewed hope for passage of the “HOMES Act” this session.
Landlord trade group MassLandlords has filed suit against the city of Boston for allegedly hiding emails between city officials and members of Mayor Michelle Wu’s Rent Stabilization Advisory Committee.
MassLandlords is calling all legislators to co-sponsor SD.862 and HD.2630, each “An Act to Further Lead Remediation in Rental Housing by Increasing The Deleading Credit.” These bills are drawing a diverse, statewide, cross-aisle coalition of co-sponsors.
Applicants of color cannot compete in a market made even more restrictive by rent control. Let us create more rental housing to solve both high rents and housing inequality.
Landlords and developers got two wins in the last 30 days in the fight to stop tenant “right of first refusal” or “TOPA” laws: one on Beacon Hill and the other in a Middlesex County Courtroom.
Federal authorities’ nearly-successful attempts to wrest a Tewksbury motel from its owner shows that the real estate industry should get behind a reform proposal on Beacon Hill.
An ambitious effort by one of the biggest players in the mortgage market, Freddie Mac, to open up renters’ access to credit is relying on landlords to help. But few landlords and property managers know the effort exists.
A prominent group representing small landlords has sued state officials for access to data on the state’s pandemic rental aid program it says could show discrimination against renters of color and their landlords.
