For many people, a mortgage will be their largest monthly expense. Most homebuyers fail to properly prepare or negotiate and end up paying much more for their loans than they need to. If you clicked on this article, you’re already on the right track. Here are 5 things to avoid when selecting a mortgage.
April signals the end of the first quarter and the start of spring. There is no better time to take stock of goals and plans for 2016 to see what needs tweaking and adjusting as necessary. Here is a maintenance checklist to make sure you are prepared for springtime!
Ask yourself, if everything you owned was lost in a fire, what would you replace? Take stock of the things that are actually important to you, and the things that you could live without, or could actually replace or downsize.
Here are 12 items to ditch so you can get organized and reclaim some space.
For some buyers, the unpredictability of the experience is the most exciting part. Others prefer to go in armed with knowledge. Whichever you fall under, this simple nine-step guide will help you succeed in buying your first home.
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It is almost springtime and that is the prime time to begin pondering utilizing that bicycle for more than driving to work. Here are 16 trails around the area, from shorter urban ones to more rustic courses that sprawl many miles.
No better time to buy than now:?With home prices on a steady race, it is important to watch and understand the affordability trajectory.
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An exceptional city-wide celebration and showcase of Newton's talented citizens and organizations.
Boston Properties?is again planning a massive air-rights development at a major transportation hub, this time with a 1.26 million-square-foot mixed-use project above Back Bay Station.
The city of Boston is providing $28 million in federal and local money to fund the development and preservation of hundreds of affordable housing units across six city neighborhoods.
There's so much winning going on in Boston right now, what with fresh development adding?thousands?of?apartments,?condos,?hotel rooms, and?dorms city-wide; passionate debate about the future of neighborhoods; fabulous new architecture,?public art, and parkland; and just a general acknowledgment that all the change afoot seems as manageable as much as it seems inevitable. Some Boston neighborhoods are changing faster and more than others, with five in particular that may be?unrecognizable?a few years out.
Fewer areas of our fair region are changing faster than the South End,?particularly the northeastern corner of that Boston neighborhood. Major developments either recently opened, completed, underway, or planned are driving that change through more than 2,400 new apartments and condos?and the thousands of fresh residents these projects will surely bring. Here are the 12 most consequential.
A perennial for-sale crunch in the People's Republic fuels a climate of bidding wars and over-asks harsh even by Greater Boston standards.
Prices are expected to start at $600,000, and pre-sales should start soon.
A new report published in Nature Climate Change postulates rising sea levels could displace millions of Americans, projecting figures substantially higher than previous estimates. The report submits that 4.2 million Americans may be affected if seas rise three feet; that number swells to 13.1 million if seas rise six feet.