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Massachusetts Housing Prices Hit Record High Last Month
Housing prices in Massachusetts show no sign of decreasing, hitting a record high last month. The median selling price for a condo…
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New Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Open To Rent Control
Where does Governor Maura Healey's administration stand on rent control? Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll expressed an openness to it in…
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Boston State Senator Says Her Voters Want Rent Control
Should Massachusetts bring back rent control? State Senator Lydia Edwards (D-East Boston) says that most of her constituents support it.…
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Charlie Baker Says No To Rent Control
Is Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker a fan of rent control? No.…
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Rent Control Popular In Boston Again
Rent-controlled apartments are no longer a thing in Massachusetts, but the people of Boston overwhelmingly support the idea, according to a…
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Central Massachusetts Island Up For Temporary Rentals
If you've ever wanted to rent a private island in Massachusetts, now is your chance. A listing on Airbnb in…
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Home Sales Plummet In Maine
Home sales are down in Maine as a result of the coronavirus emergency. April saw a 15.4 percent decline in home…
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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh Uncertain on Rent Control – But For Local-Option Bill
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is noncommittal on bringing rent control back to the state's largest city, but he supports a…
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Mayor Vetoes Plan To Let Store Owners Clear Homeless From Sidewalks in Front of Their Businesses
The mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire has vetoed a proposed ordinance that would allow store owners to control the area of sidewalk…
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320-Square-Foot Cottage Listed for $2 Million
The tiny house on a 0.34-acre lot in the South End of Portsmouth, New Hampshire is right near the water,…
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Brockton Takes Eight-Story Downtown Building By Eminent Domain – Because It Can
The city of Brockton took by eminent domain the tallest building in its downtown and then turned it over to a developer…
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Mashpee Zoning Board Says No To Resident’s Helicopter
A Mashpee man who has been flying his helicopter to and from his home on Ockway Bay since 2007 can't…
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House Homeless People in Cruise Ships?
A nonprofit organization in Portland, Maine wants to house homeless people in cruise ships off the coast. A used cruise ship might…
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Former Ice Cream Stand Site Now Storing Containers for Building Where Marijuana Will Be Grown
The owner says no marijuana is currently inside two storage containers sitting outside the former Chandler's Ice Cream stand on…
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Luxury Apartments … in Downtown Brockton?
We're not talking Back Bay, but the 24 apartments have 11-foot-high ceilings and all sorts of quality finishing…
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Maine Building Code Altered To Accommodate Tiny Homes
So-called tiny homes, which are defined as dwellings of less than 400 feet, are now allowed by Maine's building…
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Tiny Homes Movement Runs Into State Building Code
Tiny homes are roughly 200 square feet and have no connection to sewer, water, or electricity, instead designed with a composting toilet…
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Boston To Whack Airbnb Hosts?
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has filed a proposed ordinance with the City Council that would require Airbnb hosts in Boston to register…
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Subpar Concrete Causing Home Foundations To Crumble
The so-called Connecticut concrete, which is contaminated with pyrrhotite-contaminated stone, has caused thousands of foundations to fail in Connecticut, and…
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Quincy’s Transient Apartment Dwellers Don’t Vote, Get Shaft
The city of Quincy has several large apartment buildings with transient residents who don't vote in local elections or participate…
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Stately Converted Rooming Houses Leading the Way In Opioid Overdoses
Large Victorians in Worcester converted to rooming houses are seeing soaring numbers of overdoses.…
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Vermont Home-Building Project Not Done Yet … After 48 Years
The house construction on a pretty residential street in Burlington, Vermont began in July 1969. It's not close to finished,…
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Government Subsidized Housing Squeezing Privately Owned Rental Units in Laconia, New Hampshire, Landlords Say
"The private sector is being squeezed out of the rental housing market. We can't compete with the government,"…
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Americans are waiting longer than ever to buy first homes
Written by Josh Boak, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Short of cash and unsettled in their careers, young Americans are waiting longer…
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Sumu: a new online platform to find the perfect roommate
With rising rent costs and a surge of young professionals moving into the Boston area, residents are finding that locating affordable housing…
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Homeless vets pick up support from Brighton health center
BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh and the Brighton Marine Health Center have teamed up to end homelessness among veterans in the city, under…
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Baker says North End project a win for Boston
BOSTON – Praising it as the "ultimate win" for Boston, Gov. Charlie Baker joined officials Thursday to break ground on a…
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Bostonians’ concerns to shape citywide planning effort
BOSTON – Affordable housing, better transit services and quality education are the keys to the city's future, Bostonians say. [perfectpullquote align=…
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Biophysicist creates award-winning sustainable housing
Until recently, biophysicist Derek Stein's research focused on nanostructures and biological molecules, the fundamental building blocks of life. But a…
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Walsh outlines plans to spur middle-income housing
BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh sketched out plans to push down the costs of building and owning housing to foster development of more…
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Suburban living may be less ‘green’ than it appears
BOSTON – Tall buildings loom over traffic filled streets in Boston as litter-strewn sidewalks and gutters add their accents to the exhaust…
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Why soaring housing costs threaten Boston’s economic vitality
BOSTON – Boston is expensive. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but the numbers on the cost of living…
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Housing developments from Brighton to Southie win approval
BOSTON – The Hub's planning agency approved six projects Thursday that will create hundreds of residences, including 88 set aside as…
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Boston awards $28 million to a dozen housing projects
BOSTON – Working toward offsetting a housing crunch that has rents soaring, the city awarded $28 million in funding to help finance more…
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Holding nothing back: How Cindy Stumpo is re-defining luxury home development
The Commodores didn't write the 1977 R&B classic "Brick House" about Cindy Stumpo, but they could…
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July sales down as home, condo prices remain high
Home sales in Massachusetts fell 12.5 percent in July, a month that featured the second highest median sale price on record,…
