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Map: Nearly 200 towns must rezone under the MBTA Communities law. Has your town complied?

More than 130 communities are working to pass new zoning rules that will make it easier to build multifamily housing, and dozens of local votes are coming this year.

On housing and energy, Healey’s big plans collide with local resistance
The governor is facing blowback from town officials on some of her top priorities, which could imperil their progress in the Legislature.

An ambitious Mass. housing law is coming to your town. Here’s what you need to know.
The state law is an attempt to chip away at a deepening housing crisis fueled by decades of restrictive zoning rules in the suburbs and small towns of Greater Boston.

Marshfield also says ‘no’ to state zoning law aimed at boosting housing supply

Town Counsel Robert Galvin said voters were concerned over "the adverse impacts of having to add over 400 new multifamily units" in the town.

Can private landlords help ease the shelter crisis in Mass.? A new program is trying to find out.
State vouchers aim to make it worthwhile for private landlords to take in people emerging from homelessness.

With mortgage rates above 7 percent, here’s what home buyers should know
Despite sky-high mortgage rates, demand for home loans may be increasing in Greater Boston.

Want to live in the Back Bay, the heart of America’s most expensive ZIP code? Here’s what it will cost you.
In December, the median home price was approximately $2,663 per square foot, according to data from Realtor.com that was reported by The Wall Street Journal earlier this year.

Greater Boston typical home price reaches $900,000, a new March record
It's an eye-popping number that does not bode well for housing affordability this year.

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The ‘voice of cities and towns’ in Mass. has a new leader. And he wants to talk housing.

The powerful Mass. Municipal Association has long opposed top-down solutions to the state’s housing crisis. Could its stance be softening as cities and towns struggle with housing woes of their own?

Lots of people bought second homes on the Cape during the pandemic. That means more short-term rentals this summer.

The Cape has nearly 18,000 short-term rentals on the market this summer, a 12 percent increase from April last year, according to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and the Cape Cod Commission.

Justice Department can reopen Realtors case, court rules

“The fact that DOJ ‘closed its investigation’ does not guarantee that the investigation would stay closed forever,” the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit wrote in a 2-1 decision. “The words ‘close’ and ‘reopen’ are unambiguously compatible.”

Milton fires back on state lawsuit over MBTA housing law

Town officials filed a response to Attorney General Andrea Campbell's lawsuit that challenges the validity of the ambitious housing law itself, and the attorney general’s ability to enforce it.

Micro-apartments are back after nearly a century, as need for affordable housing soars

The Pacific Northwest is a leader in the resurgence of this form of affordable housing.

Wu administration doles out $69 million in affordable housing funds

The city's annual funding round will support 14 projects — a few of them controversial — in many corners of Boston.

Larry Edelman

Real estate apocalypse? What new rules for agents mean for buyers and sellers.

The 6 percent sales commission, a standard for decades, may shrink after the nation’s realtors settle price-fixing lawsuits.

Is Greater Boston’s housing market finally revving up?

Home sales ticked up slightly in February, a sign that the housing market may finally be starting to churn again, though prices remain sky high.