How have home prices progressed in the 2015 housing market? Home prices in the Boston housing market rose 0.1 percent from August to September and 4.8 percent from Sept. 2014, according to the new Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard &

According to Google Maps data, Boston is one of the worst cities in the country for Thanksgiving travel. Out of 21 cities that Google investigated, Boston came in at No. 17, with long-time traffic haven Los Angeles on top.

High development costs and restrictive zoning plague Boston Affordability has been a reoccurring problem in the Greater Boston area thanks to a population boom, especially among young professionals. The influx of people has vastly outpaced the amount of new

Lexington Public Schools is the top school district in the Greater Boston area. That ranking came courtesy of the analytics website Niche, which just released its 2016 rankings of public schools from across the country. Four of Greater Boston’s

The share of total residential real estate transactions carried out in all cash fell from 34.9 percent in Aug. 2014 to 31.7 percent this most recent August, according to a report from CoreLogic. Month-over-month, cash sales inched upward by

The mortgage process doesn’t often top the list of things people like to do, but as far as dealing with banks and moneymen go, customers are more approving of the mortgage process now than any other time in the

Many want to own a house, but the finances are only feasible for an increasingly select few It is a truth universally acknowledged that the vast majority of renters in America aspire to homeownership. Indeed, according to a recent

Joseph Estabrook Elementary School in the Lexington School District is the top elementary school in the Greater Boston area. That ranking came courtesy of the analytics website Niche, which just released its 2016 rankings of public schools from across

The investor-market dynamic has shifted since the boom and bust years. Returns are no longer astronomical and scooping up discounted foreclosures isn’t as easy as it once was, but the promise of profit has far from dried up, as

Boston has seen its share of ups and downs since the recession There’s no shortage of discussion about the rising prices throughout Boston. However, when looking at the overall status of the market, the The Boston Globe reported some interesting findings

Mortgage markets have improved, but the inequities are still pronounced Black mortgage applicants in the Greater Boston area are denied at more than twice the rate of all applicants, according to new research from Zillow. All Applicants (2013) Black Applicants (2013)

In September, foreclosure inventory continued its rapid decline, falling 24.3 percent since the same time last year, a new CoreLogic report found. As a testament to the market’s recovery – and a more total economic recovery – since the

Coldwell Banker released their 2015 Home Listing Report, which details the highest and lowest average price for four-bedroom, two-bathroom houses in markets across the United States. Here are the top five most expensive areas in Massachusetts, along with the

Roughly $7 billion in new construction is currently underway in Boston. There are 83 projects in the process of being constructed that span 25 neighborhoods, according to the Boston Redevelopment Authority. In Seaport, Downtown and Back Bay, $4 billion in

A new study from Bloomberg Business has rated Boston as the fifth-richest city in the U.S. The gross metropolitan product per resident in Boston, according to Bloomberg, was $74,746.  Boston’s biotech industry has greatly impacted the city’s gross metropolitan product,

The latest ranking in high schools provides further evidence of Boston’s prominence in education Greater Boston high schools are highly represented in Newsweek‘s “America’s Top Schools 2015,” with six schools ranking in the top 100 and 17 total amongst the top