The two family-owned franchises will bring 80 years of combined real estate experience to Boston’s Back Bay.

Freddie Mac plans to offer at least $3 billion in single-family affordable housing bonds to support affordable homeownership and serve historically underserved markets.

The decrease was driven by a 5.1% month-over-month slide in the rate of multifamily starts, while single-family construction was flat.

The number of closed sales fell 12% month over month, while active inventory rose 5.6% to 7,362. Median sales prices dropped 4.8%, but that’s still up 7.3% from September 2020. 

Climate change will negatively impact the already-stunted housing inventory in the U.S., according to a recent Redfin report.

Lack of inventory continues to restrict home sales as fewer homes sold in September, and closed home sales dropped.

Maggie Seelig of MGS Real Estate Group has announced she is opening her first suburban office in the MetroWest Suburbs, expanding the brokerage to assist buyers and sellers beyond Boston.

Zillow announced it will not sign any new contracts to buy homes until the end of the year due to a “backlog in renovations and operational capacity constraints.”

Cape Cod’s housing market remained historically strong in September, despite declines from last year.

While the past year has been unprecedented in terms of economic change and a global pandemic, most U.S. home sellers’ experiences were similar to past years, according to Zillow’s latest consumer housing trends report. 

As COVID-19 continues to negatively impact people and workplaces, EXIT Realty Corp. International announced it is working to maintain the health and well-being of its agents and brokers through a series of programs, including its Focus on Good Health initiative.

It’s been barely three months since the federal moratorium on foreclosures expired, but it’s starting to prove costly, as nationally, foreclosures are on the rise, having increased 67% from last year.

Zumper’s Boston Metro Area Report found rents are growing the fastest in one of the Bay State’s North Shore cities.

At 37 years old, the new president will be the second-youngest leader of the national nonprofit trade organization, which works to improve the homeownership rate in the Asian-American Pacific Islander community.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced a plan that will implement new policies to combat global warming, according to a press release. 

While housing inventory fell for the second consecutive month, homes sold six days faster than they did in September 2020.