Andrew Brinker
Housing Reporter at The Boston Globe
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker
The past two years have seen a slowdown in housing production in Greater Boston, as the number of new homes permitted has plummeted due to economic constraints. Now, it may be getting worse. In its quarterly report issued this month, the real estate firm Colliers said the share of housing inventory under construction in the region fell to a 10-year low in the first quarter of 2025. That means very little housing is being built, in comparison to the typical pace over the last decade.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker
It is the time of year when housing prices in Boston truly begin to soar as the market kicks into gear for the spring and summer. The median-priced single-family home in Greater Boston in April sold for $990,000, according to new figures out Tuesday from the Greater Boston Association of Realtors. That’s a new record high. But there were some positive signs in the monthly report, too.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker
Massachusetts is well known for its local opposition to new housing efforts. Local resistance to a state law mandating towns make it easier to build apartments in the suburbs has been intense. Local resident groups frequently dub proposed developments in their neighborhoods scary nicknames like “The Monster Project” and “The Weston Whopper,” depicting them as skyscrapers towering over quaint single-family homes. But those loud opponents may actually be in the minority.
If so many people are leaving Massachusetts, why aren’t housing costs going down? - The Boston Globe
3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker
But if so many people are moving away, why don‘t housing prices go down? The state’s combination of slow population growth and sky-high prices would seem to contradict the basic laws of supply and demand. There is no true estimate of exactly how many homes Massachusetts needs to meet demand right now, because different economists have different ways of measuring these things. So researchers tend to defer to the most obvious indicator: the state of the housing market.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Andrew Brinker
This squat building at 2400 Mass. Ave. in Cambridge is set to be replaced with a 60-unit condominium building, but the project is stalled amid difficult financing.John Tlumacki/Globe StaffBut housing is so expensive to build right now that some developers say that this so-called inclusionary housing requirement may be backfiring, making otherwise profitable projects too costly to build and stopping them before shovels hit the ground.
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RT @landpolicy: Big news coming out of our hometown this week: the @CambMA City Council voted to allow four-story apartment buildings acros…
For those following MBTA Communities state housing law: In new emergency regs filed today after SJC ruling last week, the state offers an olive branch to Milton and other noncompliant towns, extending their deadline to pass zoning to July 14. For now, Milton has another chance.
