The latest new home sales report is out, but what details of that report should you keep in mind for your business? The latest Census Bureau report on new construction dropped this morning, and it concerns the home sale

JR Associates announces the appointment of Nicole Riel as assistant vice president and luxury property specialist. Nicole joined the JR Associates team in November of 2014 and will cover all of Massachusetts, with particular focus on the Boston market.

As the temperature falls, so have existing-home sales, but numbers still indicate a slow return to normalcy. The market peaked for 2014 in October, according to the National Association of Realtors recently released existing-home sales report. In November, existing-home

The Fed’s language on interest rates changed at its last meeting, throwing into question its future policies. It’s the big question on everyone’s mind – when will the Federal Reserve decide to raise interest rates? Indeed, there are few

The negative equity situation in Boston has improved markedly, according to new research by Zillow. Here is some encouraging news for you to end the week with – here in the Boston area, the share of mortgage properties in negative equity

Spending package offers prolonged mortgage debt relief but faces uphill battle.   As is their recent tradition, Congress is continuing to squabble following the sweeping Republican victories in the midterm elections, and it may lead to thousands of Americans

Builder confidence remains high while home construction continues to trod along – what gives? Builder confidence this month fell just one point, according to the latest Housing Market Index from the National Association of Home Builders. Finishing up 2014

The Olympics are known for many things, but how do they impact the host cities real estate markets? In case you somehow missed the fliers, Boston is vying to hose the 2024 Summer Olympics. A couple weeks back, Boston

We all want to think that an explosion is pending in Millennial homeownership, but the numbers to justify that are hardly cooperating. The last few months, we’ve reported consistently that the big problem facing housing (as well as the

No city can escape the “sketchy,” “shady” and “questionable” areas that develop within city limits and affect the value of real estate in local markets. Fortunately, cities are able to restore these areas like Boston has in recent years, investment

The headlines have been merciless regarding the latest new construction report, but was it truly that bad? We’ve seen the headlines too, and on the surface, they’re not pretty – per the latest numbers from the Census Bureau, housing

Real estate in Boston has been on solid ground in 2014, but new projections suggest the best is yet to come. Real estate in Boston is on firm footing. Home sales, especially in the condo markets, are strong. All-cash

Everyone knows that mortgages and rents have ran in opposing directions, but the numbers are still jaw-dropping. For some time, we’ve been hearing two independent narratives in housing: one, that mortgage rates and payments were at an all-time low;

What should you know about home sellers, heading into the 2015 housing market? Our last few stories on NAR’s 2014 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers has focused on the buyer-side of the equation, but now we’re finally taking

Yet another round of analysis suggests that housing affordability continues to fall by the wayside in the Boston area. As if we didn’t already have enough indicators on the housing affordability crisis here in Boston, here comes perhaps the most

Google announces intentions to begin labeling websites as “mobile-friendly.” By the end of 2014, eMarketer predicts that upwards of 4.55 billion people will own a mobile phone, and 1.75 billion of those will be smartphones. Ostensibly, that means by