Massachusetts edged out Minnesota as the best state to raise a family, according to a study conducted by WalletHub.
The personal finance website looked at five key categories — family fun, health and safety, education and child care, affordability, and socio-economics — using 42 metrics.
Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 26, 2018.
The MBA reported mortgage interest rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($424,100 or less) increased from last week’s 4.36% to 4.41%, the highest level since March 2017.
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This week, MassHousing closed on $17.1 million in financing for the construction of a new, 102-unit, affordable housing community in Lawrence.
Trinity Financial, Inc., the company whose affiliate was financed by MassHousing, will turn the former Van Brodie Mill into the new mixed-income community near the border of Methuen. The reuse [...]
Stunning brand-new renovation! Among the most elegant and sophisticated gut renovations, this rare luxury ground floor corner end-unit condo boasts 2 bedrooms/2.5 baths 1,735 sq.ft. at The Hampton Place.
This stunning new construction townhouse with upgrades and tasteful decor at a competitive price of $1,295,000 has just gone under contract!
This brand new beautiful single family 6-bedrooms/5.5 baths home in Newton Highlands has just gone under contract! This amazing property of 6,750 sq.ft. was custom-built throughout, and has every new bell and whistle discerning buyers seek, including:
The housing market has an impressive 2017 year, as another $2 trillion was added, bringing the collective total to $31.8 trillion, according to a recent report by a major real estate company. Home values last year increased 6.5 percent and at the fastest pace since [...]
After months of deliberation, Amazon has narrowed its list of contenders for its second headquarters down from 238 cities to 20.
"Getting from 238 to 20 was very tough - all the proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm and creativity," Holly Sullivan of Amazon Public Policy said in a statement. "Through this process we learned about many new [...]
According to a jobs report by the US Economy, 148,000 jobs were added in the month of December, with a stagnant unemployment rate of 4.1 percent. Average hourly wages inched to a nine cent increase, to [...]
According to a report on realtor.com, luxury real estate lagged behind general market growth in 2017, despite that million-dollar homes now make up more than seven percent of the real estate market, a significant increase from [...]
The real estate market is not immune to the increasing popularity of cryptocurrency transactions. As popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin grow in value and the benefits of a secure, coded block-chain transaction gain prevalence, the real estate market is becoming slowly intertwined with the possibility of cryptocurrency-based sales and [...]
According to the Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI), confidence in housing has made a near-record return in November. THE HPSI reported a 2.6 percentage increase to [...]
With the new trend among women being later marriages, higher education, and increased presence in higher-paying jobs, the era of women homeowners has become a new market that real-estate agents need to be better prepared to serve. To do so, it is imperative to recognize women’s power as a buying pool and understand the meaning of [...]