Massachusetts

The Massachusetts attorney general noted some consumers were caught by surprise when they realized the full cost of their agreements after signing.

Franklin Credit Management Corp. agreed to pay $300,000 to Massachusetts and not sell its portfolio of state loans to a different servicer.

The Massachusetts House passed a bill that would ease the process for property owners looking to build accessory-dwelling units.

A Quincy, Mass., real estate broker pleaded not guilty to nine charges, including money laundering and forgery, for what prosecutors say is the theft of $800,000 from deposit checks.

After three straight months of double-digit percentage declines, single-family home sales in Massachusetts rebounded to set new records in July.

While those migrating from New York and New Jersey found housing they could afford, many Cape Cod residents saw the gap widen between what they could pay for a mortgage or rent given their diminished economic circumstances.

COVID-19 continues to upend the Massachusetts residential real estate market as sales of both single-family homes and condos have crashed roughly 23% and 30%, respectively, this June compared with last.

Record lows in housing inventory plummeted even further as the global pandemic spread across Cape Cod over the last two months.

Residential estate brokers and agents are scrambling to determine what Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's emergency order means for their industry.

It's been slim pickings inside the Cape Cod housing market for quite a while, the past year at least.

Provident Bank in Amesbury, Mass., has entered warehouse lending after buying a business from People’s United Financial in Bridgeport, Conn.

People's United in Connecticut is letting the loans run off its books as it invests in higher-yielding commercial loans.

Massachusetts cities and towns would have new options for funding local affordable housing under a proposal rolled out on Jan. 8: a fee of up to 2% on real estate sales above the statewide median sales price, and a higher fee on certain "speculative" property sales.

A group of Massachusetts lawmakers, local elected officials and housing advocates plan to launch a new coalition next week to advocate for real estate transfer fee legislation.

Freedom Credit Union has listed for sale the three downtown Springfield, Mass., office buildings it took back in November in a mortgage foreclosure.

Home sales in November tumbled by 11.9% compared to last November, and sales over the first 11 months of 2019 are down 2.3% compared to the same period last year.

While the median price of sold homes increased again this year, the number of sales to date in Central Massachusetts is so far below the rate from last year.

It's been two years since Taunton, Mass., City Solicitor Jason Buffington announced that a real turnaround was on the horizon for the forlorn and nearly vacant Whittenton Mills complex.

Home sale prices in Massachusetts continued their ascent in July, setting a new all-time high for the month and rising to a level nearly 20% higher than five years ago and nearly 40% higher than July 2009.

Massachusetts home sale agreements shot up 9% in July, compared to a year ago, and the median price of a single-family home put under agreement last month rose to almost $440,000.