Boston's residential real-estate market showed gains in September while single-family home sales statewide jumped 25 percent, the best performance for the month in 10 years, data released Tuesday show.
Home sales in the Hub climbed almost 15 percent during the quarter that ended in September compared with the third quarter of last year, and surged almost 22 percent statewide for the period, the Warren Group said Tuesday. The Boston-based publisher of Banker & Tradesman, which focuses on real estate markets and businesses, said condo sales jumped almost 20 percent across the state last month compared with a year ago.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Olympic waters in this city are more widely contaminated by sewage than previously known and pose a greater threat to athletes' health ahead of next year's games, according to new results from tests commissioned by The Associated Press.
Expanded analysis of Rio's waterways shows that high viral and in some cases bacterial counts are found not just along shorelines where raw sewage runs into waterbodies, but far offshore where athletes will compete in sailing, rowing and canoeing.
