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Fly direct to this Pennsylvania mountain home

Atop Murray’s Mountain in Emporium, PA is a pilot’s fantasy: a fly-in ranch featuring a 1,700-foot airport runway! The unusual property type has an official right of way to the nearby airstrip.

NAR: Pending home sales rebound in August

All four geographic regions saw increases, led by the Midwest, which clocked a 10.4% rise from July, and the South, where sales rose 8.6%. Pending transactions rose 7.2% in the West and 4.6% in the North.

How much can you save by downsizing? It depends on where you live.

Property values continue to rise and those looking to downsize can make the most of the current market highs, but how much you can save by downsizing can vary significantly depending on where you live.

ShowingTime: Home showings down in August

A new report shows the market cooled in August, at least in terms of the number of prospective buyers looking at homes.

S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller: Home-price gains set fourth record in a row

The 10-city composite index rose 1.4% on a monthly basis and 19.1% on a yearly basis, while the 20-city composite gained 1.5% monthly and 19.9% annually. 

Cape Cod Broker Bob Kinlin wins three national awards

Robert Kinlin, a broker with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Robert Paul Properties, received  three national real estate awards this summer. 

Democratic senators propose 20-year mortgage for low-income, first-time homebuyers

The Low-Income First Time Homebuyers Act (LIFT) establishes a program to sponsor 20-year mortgages that would build equity at twice the rate of a conventional 30-year mortgage.

New-home sales rise in August

The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of July was 378,000, representing a supply of 6.1 months at the current sales rate.

Homes in Boston Back Bay
August median-home price spike leads to another drop in sales volume

A double-digit spike in the median price of a single-family home in Massachusetts last month caused sales numbers to decline for the second month in a row.

Luxury apartments coming to East Boston’s Greenway in 2022

A new luxury rental development is set to debut next year along East Boston’s Greenway.

Could remote work fuel housing demand for years to come?

Last year’s en-masse move to remote work has driven what Zillow has dubbed the Great Reshuffling, as homeowners working from home have paused and reevaluated where and how they live.

Knox Financial announces new partnership with Better Mortgage

Knox Financial has teamed up with Better Mortgage to help customers save time and money on investment property financing.

Surge in multifamily construction drives housing starts in August

The increase was driven by a 21.6% month-over-month spike in the rate of new multifamily construction. Single-family housing starts, meanwhile, slid 2.8%.

NAHB: Builder confidence posts first monthly gain in four months

September’s reading of 76 was up one point from August, despite lingering challenges with labor and the building-material supply chain, the National Association of Home Builders reported, citing the latest NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index.

Fall image of homes in Boston's Brighton neighborhood.
Massachusetts median home sales price continues to drop

Despite the drop in prices, supply and demand imbalances have many first-time homebuyers renting, increasing demand for those units and driving up those prices.

BPDA votes to advance city’s Coastal Flood Resilience Zoning Overlay District

The overlay district will apply to all city areas that could face significant impacts during a major coastal storm event.