In the midst of vacation rental season, housing officials from Nantucket made the trek to Beacon Hill to join their state senator in a call for new tools, including a real estate transfer tax, help create attainable housing for year-round Cape and islands residents.
Most of Massachusetts’ population growth since 2010 has been focused in Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex counties, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released late last week.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has placed two counties in Massachusetts on its list of rural and underserved counties for 2018 for credit unions and other lenders to use in determining whether certain Truth in Lending Act mortgage rules apply.
