Year-over-year gains in national equity were in the double digits at the end of this year’s third quarter, as a healing economy helped keep home price appreciation positive and consistent, according to a new report from CoreLogic. On Sept.

Boston will be the No. 4 housing market for Millennial homebuyers in 2016, according to a new analysis by realtor.com. Citing the Boston’s vast number of colleges and universities, realtor.com drew attention to Beantown’s strong education resources, and how that climate

October was another month of declining foreclosures, both nationwide and in most major metropolitan areas, a CoreLogic report confirmed this week. Dropping by just over 21 percent year-over-year, the nation’s foreclosure inventory reached a 1.2 percent share this past October,

Cambridge is costly, but offers nation’s best city for a youth environment and opportunities Cambridge is the ninth best college town in the nation, according to a study released by WalletHub. The study looked not just at colleges themselves,

Lexington Public Schools has some of the best teachers in the U.S., according to a new analysis from Niche. Basing its rankings on student and parent reviews of teachers, teacher salaries, teacher absenteeism, teacher tenure and student-teacher ratio, Niche rated

Americans want their Cuban property. Since the 1960s, when Castro first seized power, that wanting has been a symptom most convinced themselves to ignore, despite filing claims against the country. However, when representatives of Cuba and the United States meet

In September, distressed sales accounted for 9.7 percent of total home sales nationwide; the culmination of declines that span the past few years, according to CoreLogic. Considering the current pace of distressed sale declines, CoreLogic researchers determined that the

Next year is bound to be a good one for Atlanta real estate The Greater Boston real estate market will be one of the best in the country in 2016, according to a new analysis by realtor.com. In the site’s

The fall slump hasn’t hurt the market’s strength, as home prices across the country continued to climb in October, CoreLogic reported. The coupling of a healing economy and spotty but persistent inventory shortages are largely to thank (or blame,

2015 has been a great year for new construction in Boston Residential construction spending in the Boston housing market totaled $362 million in October, a 10 percent decline from Oct. 2014, according to new numbers from Dodge Data & Analytics. Despite that drop, 2015

Many potential avenues cited to help alleviate costs The Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2015 was released last week, the news was not good. The report called the situation in Boston “fundamentally unmanageable,” thanks to high development costs and strong

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