Despite saying it offers a chance for residents and visitors to connect with the city’s waterfront, Seaport completely ignores Boston’s black population, The Boston Globe revealed in a new report on race in the city. Seaport, which sprawls on

The Massachusetts real estate market isn’t falling victim to the annual slowdown typically experienced in the fall and winter, with a new report showing that both pending home sales and home prices increased in November. The number of pending

While homeownership continues to be a key part of the American Dream, minorities in the United States lag behind the rest of the country in homeownership rates. According to a new report from ABODO Apartments, a national apartment listing

The state of Massachusetts will award $10 million a year in grants and incentives in an effort to encourage cities and towns to permit more development, The Boston Globe reported. Governor Charlie Baker was expected to formally announce the

With Amazon’s pick of its second headquarters — HQ2 — looming sometime in 2018, cities are continuing to position themselves in case they’re the chosen one. In Boston, which some say is a surefire finalist, several sites were pitched

The leaders of 14 towns and cities included in the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition of Greater Boston recently revealed a plan to address the region’s well-documented affordable housing issue. The leaders will set new goals for regional housing production and

As Congress works on creating a new tax bill, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has been vocal about the ways in which the proposals would affect homeowners, home prices and the real estate industry as a whole. However,

Home prices in the Boston metropolitan area had a year-over-year increase of 7 percent in October, keeping in line with national home prices, which also increased 7 percent, according to the recent CoreLogic Home Price Index. The national increase

Some Massachusetts legislators are calling for Seaport Square, which will fill the final 12.5 acres of the Seaport District, to have a Boston Public Library branch. The development is already stacked, with 3.2 million square feet of residential space;

Despite the increased effort in Boston not only to build more housing units in general, but affordable ones to boot, the suburbs aren’t demonstrating equal commitment, according to the Boston Foundation’s Greater Housing Report Card, which highlights the city’s

The Massachusetts housing market showed no signs of slowdown in October despite the nearing holidays and typical seasonal slowdown. While the small inventory of homes is pushing prices upward, the number of closed single-family home sales increased 5.9 percent

Just months after median U.S. home values reached their highest point in history, home values have continued to rise. Zillow recently released its October 2017 Market Housing report showing that the median U.S. home value stands at $203,400, a $12,500,

For years, Allston-Brighton has been the hip epicenter of college life in Boston, with proximity to Boston College, Boston University and a new Harvard University campus that’s set to open in 2020. The neighborhoods have every marking of a

A recent study of housing affordability in North America put Boston in the top 10 most expensive cities. The city came in No. 7 in the analysis from Point 2 Homes, which measured cities’ median multiple — the median

  As millennials get older, they’re trading in their train passes for minivans as they head for the suburbs, this according to National Real Estate Investor’s survey of suburban areas with the best potential for millennial population growth. Thanks

The top four biggest sales in the Boston area were actually in Boston proper, which, according to the Boston Globe, is a rarity itself. What’s more, three of the four were in the same building: The Lucas, which is