The Leading Real Estate Companies of the World has added Benoit Mizner Simon, a brokerage from Wellesley, to its ranks, along with 37 other companies from 18 countries. LeadingRE members benefit from many business enhancing services perks, including world class conferences

New numbers are out for Greater Boston’s housing market – is the news good or bad? “The third quarter of 2015 has ticked its last tock with the hands pointing firmly upon a reliable clock of a market.” So

Builders are now more confident than at anytime since the housing boom Builder confidence in the market for newly constructed single-family homes rose three points in October to a level of 64 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells

The Walsh administration is on the verge of requiring that real estate developers make more of an effort to create affordable housing, amidst Boston’s biggest building boom in a generation. The new requirement is due to steep rent increases and a

The Business Journals, analyzing the latest Census Bureau data, has compiled a list of the most profitable U.S. cities for a wide range of professions, including loan officers and real estate agents. In Boston, 2014 salaries for loan officers

What Boston neighborhoods see the highest share of luxury home sales? The 02116 ZIP code, which includes the Back Bay and Bay Village neighborhoods, was the top luxury housing market in Boston in the second quarter, with 77 sales

Recovery continues as foreclosure levels dropped yet again in August. National foreclosure inventory fell 25.2 percent year-over-year and completed foreclosures dropped 20.1 percent, according to a new report from CoreLogic. The latest decline in foreclosures is only the latest step

The Urban Land Institute released its 2016 Emerging Trends in Real Estate report and survey recently – the 36th edition of the institute’s trends and forecast report – providing analysis of the nation’s top real estate markets, and subsequently

Chicago holds a majority of zombie foreclosures, vacant homes Despite a 43 percent national drop of “zombie” foreclosures, they still remain a problem in several parts of the country, according to a RealtyTrac study, including Massachusetts who saw an increase. The study,

The rental market in Boston has been red-hot for some time now, and it is approaching a milestone The average rent in Boston’s housing market is nearly $2,000, and the area’s rental growth remains strong. Those were the main findings in the latest

Sales continued their strong march forward in August, as CoreLogic reported both year-over-year and month-to-month increases. While the extent of home price gains varied often and sometimes greatly from metro to metro in August, the national direction has remained

Boston has one of the nation’s hottest housing markets, but what neighborhoods are seeing the most activity? According to the latest research from GBAR, it takes of average of 44 days to sell a home in the city of

Massachusetts Best Overall Thanks to Top School System Ranking, High Salaries Massachusetts was ranked as the best state for teachers in a WalletHub study. The study looked at subjects such as the job opportunity for teachers in U.S. states, along

CoreLogic released June cash sales data this week, which showed that cash continues to trickle out of the market. Nationally, cash sales made up 31.3 percent of total home sales in June, down from 33.9 percent the same time

Where in the city of Boston are incomes the highest? Back Bay is Boston’s most affluent neighborhood, according to a Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) study of U.S. Census Bureau data. With a per capita income of $88,419.77 and a per

Did the latest Case-Shiller present more of the same for housing? Home prices in the Boston area were up 1.1 percent from June to July and 4.3 percent from July 2014, according to the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index from Standard & Poor’s. The