Boston’s commute times are notoriously bad — the city even ranked the 14th-most congested city in the world this year — and they’re only getting worse, changing the way agents market to buyers and sellers. Gary Rogers, a Waltham broker, recently told The Boston Globe that he used to tell buyers how long a commute would be from the area, but he doesn’t anymore because “it’s too dangerous.”

In other recent Boston real estate news:

• East Boston Realtor Ed Deveau recently received a big accolade: the 2017 Centurion Award from Century 21 for not only being one of the top Realtors in the Boston metro area, but one of the top 25 brokers in the country, according to East-Boston Times Free Press.
• Selling a home in Boston isn’t cheap — in fact, it’s the sixth-most expensive in the country, according to a recent Zillow report. The average cost of selling a home here is just more than $34,000, with more than $26,000 of that going toward commissions.
• Boston is the fourth-best city in the country for access to fresh food, with 54 percent of residents currently living within a five-minute walk to a grocery store or farmers market, compared to 45 percent in 2014, according to a recent Redfin report.