For the first time since 2018, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination recently initiated a complaint on its own and said this week that it hopes its action sends “a clear message” that discriminatory housing practices will not be tolerated here.
After the commission settlements landed, some thought the buyer’s agent was an endangered species. But while they must change, experts say, it’s not the whole story.
Experienced agents say there’s a number of possible reasons why more Boston-area single-family listings appear to be hanging around on the market than condos. But one thing is certain: Condos are no longer the affordable option.
Brokers’ and agents’ hopes are springing to life after a tough holiday season like the snowdrops popping up among the dead leaves across Massachusetts this month thanks to an unseasonably warm winter.
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.
With many buyers pushed out of the market or further afield from their jobs in recent months, sellers are losing some of their clout, real estate agents and brokers say.
Downtown Boston prices slumped, elite suburbs’ prices spiked, demand for second homes boomed: This is 2021 in residential real estate.
Like most other employers across the state, local real estate leaders are mulling how much office space they’ll need for agents and other operations after the COVID-19 crisis fully recedes and the economy slowly returns to a new normal.
Condominiums are flooding the market in several of the city’s neighborhoods across several price ranges, threatening price declines in some of Boston’s hottest neighborhoods for the first time in many years.
