How does the down payment in Boston compare with other metro areas? According to analysis from LendingTree, the average down payment in the Boston area is 16.93 percent of the mortgage, which comes out to $50,146. How does this

Construction is the residential sphere is lagging in Boston in 2014 According to the latest numbers from the Census Bureau, residential construction spending in August was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $351.7 billion, down 0.1 percent from

The term “bubble” gets thrown around often nowadays, but the data does not support such statements. The great housing bubble of 2001 to 2008 was a mammoth economic event, one that pulled the housing market through a verifiable roller

Anne Hartnett, co-founder of Agent Publishing, has been nominated as one of Folio’s Top Women in Media. Folio is a multi-channel resource for the magazine and online media industry that uses digital media, print and events to help media

American homeowners are finding that rising home prices are helping them reclaim some of the equity lost during the housing crisis, CoreLogic reports. The value of homes, since the bursting of the housing bubble in 2007, have been struggling

Asking prices continued their ascent in August, according to new numbers from Trulia. Asking prices in the Boston area rose 6 percent year-over-year in August, according to the latest Price Monitor from real estate website Trulia. That gave Boston the twelfth-strongest asking

Though overall housing inventory is showing signs of recovery, it’s not progressing in a way that helps first-time homebuyers. According to the National Association of Realtors, 2014 has been a very good year for housing inventory. After falling precariously

$1 million is a hefty chunk of change, but new data shows that it goes much farther in some metro areas than in others. How much is $1 million, in the grand scheme of things? According to some very interesting

Home prices continue rising, CoreLogic finds, but the geographic drivers of the increases may be shifting. Home prices continued to show signs of improvement in July, according to the latest Home Price Index report from CoreLogic. Nationwide, home prices, including

Negative equity persists in today’s housing market, but its impacts are not equally felt in every price point. #471456425 / gettyimages.com Earlier this week, we reported on new findings by Zillow that a whopping 42.6 percent of Generation X

Construction spending has been up and down in Chicagoland in 2014, but it bounced back in a major way in July. Residential construction spending in the Boston area totaled $439 million in July 2014, down 1 percent from last year, according