This Week’s Paper

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Startup Offers Off-Market Leads

By James Sanna | Banker & Tradesman Staff | Oct 2, 2022 | Reprints | Unlock Link

Can you mine new housing inventory and leads for real estate agents from homes whose owners haven’t even made the firm decision to sell? That’s the bet a new local startup is making....

On the Front Lines of the Displacement Battle

By Steve Adams | Banker & Tradesman Staff | Oct 2, 2022 | Reprints | Unlock Link

Mike Leyba helps lead City Life Vida Urbana, the most vocal and prominent of Greater Boston’s tenant advocacy groups, a position that makes him a powerful voice in Boston’s debate over rent stabilization policies....

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Non-Bank Lenders Move into HELOC Space

By Diane McLaughlin | Banker & Tradesman Staff | Oct 2, 2022 | Reprints | Unlock Link

While banks and credit unions have long dominated the market for home equity lines of credit, Massachusetts has seen other lenders – both familiar and new – make headway in the second mortgage market amid rapid changes to the industry....

Why Did Michelle Wu Blow Up the ZBA?

By Scott Van Voorhis | Banker & Tradesman Columnist | Oct 2, 2022 | Reprints | Unlock Link

It’s not clear what prompted Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to decide now is the time lower the boom on the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals....

A Twisted Kind of Housing Recession

Oct 2, 2022 | Reprints

Booms and busts are a natural part of capitalism, but there’s something rather perverse about this particular bust....

Are You Up for a Down Market?

By Bernice Ross | Special To Banker & Tradesman | Oct 2, 2022 | Reprints | Unlock Link

Anyone who has experienced a buyer’s market with few transactions and plunging prices is familiar with the concept of “chasing the market down.” Here’s how to help your sellers from making that terrible mistake....

Banker & Tradesman’s Editorial Cartoon: Our Savior, the Pink Slip

By Peter Paul Payack | Banker & Tradesman Cartoonist | Oct 2, 2022 | Reprints

It's OK that you're getting laid off. You're saving the economy from inflation....

Slow Going for Federal Real Estate Sales

By Lew Sichelman | Special to Banker & Tradesman | Oct 2, 2022 | Reprints

A federal watchdog agency is raising flags about how a consolidation of government agencies offices could boost local economies as work-from-home reduces office requirements....

Hot Property: The Village Works

By James Sanna | Banker & Tradesman Staff | Oct 2, 2022 | Reprints | Unlock Link

A historic, 15,000-square-foot retail block in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood has been gut-renovated into a new, 7,500-square-foot coworking space called The Village Works....