One may think that warmer months are better for selling homes, but the data tells another story. What if we were to tell you that it really makes no difference when you list your client’s home, in terms of

We’ve covered multifamily ascendence before, but this is the most telling statistic of all. Earlier this week, we reported on two facets of new construction: first, that overall construction spending in Boston dropped in 2014; and second, that the nationwide growth

Guaranteed Rate released its quarterly summary of the mortgage market, which found an increase in purchased loans and a return of the ARM. Analyzing data housed in its massive database of home loans, Guaranteed Rate, one of the nation’s

Slow home prices in December are likely to roll over into 2015. Early today, February 3, CoreLogic released its Home Price Index for December 2014. While price appreciation was relatively flat from a month prior, CoreLogic researchers found prices

2014 was a lackluster year for new construction in Boston, according to the latest stats. Total residential construction spending in the Boston area was $3.539 billion in 2014, a 13 percent decrease from 2013, according to new numbers from Dodge Data

Hundreds of thousands of potential homebuyers will be boomeranging back to the housing market over the next seven years. The Boston area is poised to see more than 50,000 potential homebuyers enter the housing market fray over the next seven

Boston’s housing market in 2014 failed to live up to 2013’s expectations; what were the defining trends, though, in that 2014 market? To find out, we took a more detailed look at GBAR’s numbers, and we collected our analysis

We’re all waiting for Boston’s housing inventory situation to improve…but that has yet to happen. The inventory situation in Boston continued to worsen in 2014, according to new numbers from realtor.com. Per realtor.com’s analysis, inventory in Boston dropped by a whopping 19.3

Boston’s market performed well in 2014, but not at the levels of 2013. Boston’s 2014 housing market finally drew to a close last month, and we’ve been studying the latest GBAR analysis for inklings on how the market performed.

Home prices in the Boston area did not set the indices on fire in the latest Case-Shiller. Home prices in the Boston area continued to moderate in November, falling 0.2 percent from October but rising a modest 4.0 percent from Nov. 2013, according

While one might be lead to believe that the richest cities are the places with a ton of million dollar homes, lots of culture, job opportunities and beauty, the cost of living in these places is really high as

Micro-apartments were pegged as the solution to Boston’s issues with housing affordability…but are they? It seems like a perfectly logical strategy at the time: incentivize developers to construct hundreds of new micro-apartments – small, compact living spaces of 400

Using data provided by CoreLogic, we look closer at the foreclosure and serious delinquency rates of the last two years. Last week, we reviewed CoreLogic’s latest foreclosure report, which provided a brief snapshot of national and local foreclosure levels

What neighborhoods in the Boston area will see the most real estate activity in 2015? Inman Square is poised to be Boston’s hottest real estate market in 2015, according to a special report from Redfin. In Redfin’s “Hottest Neighborhoods of 2015”

David McCarthy, the operating partner for Keller Williams Realty Boston-Metro and Keller Williams Realty Chestnut Hill Market Center, was recently installed as president of the Greater Boston Association of Realtors for 2015. The installation ceremonies took place at Brae

Things may have been a bit inconsistent for Boston’s housing market, but its condo market was very strong. Boston’s housing market was a hotbed of contradictions and nuances in 2014, but one area showed undeniable strength – the city’s