Massachusetts

The Worcester City Council has asked the city administration to identify affordable housing that might exist for people resettling here from hurricane-battered Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The president and founder of a now-defunct East Falmouth, Mass., mortgage company pleaded guilty to charges that he defrauded the federal government out of about $2.5 million.

Here's a look at the 12 cities where homeowners who bought low during the housing crisis profited the most when they sold in 2016.

As distressed inventory dries up and home prices soar, more investors are borrowing to buy flip houses. Here's a look at the 12 states with the largest share of financing for flipping houses.

Rising prices are starting to keep potential purchasers from looking for homes and making an offer although interest remains near record levels, according to the Redfin Housing Demand Index.

Foreclosure actions on Cape Cod are showing their first decrease in four years, aided by a red-hot housing market that's making it easier for distressed homeowners to offload their property before losing it to the bank.

Getting rundown or blighted properties renovated to meet safety codes and restored to the tax rolls is the goal of a program known as receivership, a report about which was presented to the Holyoke, Mass., City Council.

Saying he was fed up co-existing with town officials, the owner of a 1750s-era house on Main Street in Rowley, Mass., has put the home and the 6.8 acres it sits on up for sale and is encouraging developers to build affordable housing there.

A Methuen, Mass., woman was forced to sell her home recently after she fell victim to an apparent scam targeting homeowners who are struggling with their mortgages.

Dozens stood out in the rain Thursday morning to protest the foreclosure eviction of an elderly man and his son from their Sixteen Acres home in Springfield, Mass.