by Lew Sichelman | Apr 14, 2024
High mortgage rates, soaring house prices and rising construction costs have driven many flippers out of the market. And with their exit comes a great opportunity for people eager to buy a fixer-upper of their own.
by James Sanna | Mar 14, 2023
Most of Massachusetts appears fairly well-insulated from home price declines should a market downturn take hold, a new analysis says.
by James Sanna | Jan 31, 2023
New research from real estate data firm ATTOM Data Solutions suggests that home-sellers in Massachusetts are continuing to enjoy substantial returns.
by Lew Sichelman | Jul 17, 2022
Experts say that a 2008-style housing crash is unlikely to happen now, if only because lending standards are much tighter than they were prior to the Great Recession. Still, foreclosures are starting to tick upward.
by Lew Sichelman | Nov 1, 2020
Surprisingly, 60 percent of Americans are open to sharing a house with specters and spooks. So what are the disclosure laws around ghosts?
by Banker & Tradesman | Jul 1, 2019
Median home prices in the second quarter of 2019 were not affordable for average wage earners in 74 percent of U.S. counties.
by Banker & Tradesman | Mar 4, 2019
Home flipping is increasing in popularity in Boston in a big way, according to a new report.
by Kenneth R. Harney | Jul 1, 2018
If you’ve got it, don’t piggybank it – borrow against it.
by Banker & Tradesman | Feb 22, 2018
Median home prices in U.S. ZIP codes in the top 20th percentile for environmental hazard risk appreciated at a faster pace than the overall U.S housing market over the past year, past five years and past 10 years, according to a new report from ATTOM Data Solutions.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jan 25, 2018
Millennials named Dylan are buying far more homes than Gen-Xers named Kurt, according to an analysis of first names of homebuyers in 2017 from ATTOM Data Solutions’ 2018 housing report.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jan 17, 2018
Rising home prices drove up the average down payments on single-family homes and condos to a new record in the third quarter of 2017, according to the January 2018 Down Payment Report.
by Jim Morrison | Dec 18, 2017
The median down payment for single-family homes and condos purchased with financing in the third quarter rose to a record high, according to a new report.