There is a 14-story office building at 1 State Street, in the heart of Boston’s Financial District, that has been quietly emptying out for years. It sits one block from Faneuil Hall, two blocks from the waterfront, steps from three MBTA lines. By almost any measure, it is exactly where people should want to live. […]
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Something unexpected happened in the middle of 2025. While the Trump administration was cutting $27 billion from federal rental assistance programs and proposing the elimination of the Department of Housing and Urban Development as most people know it, Congress quietly did something that developers of affordable housing had been waiting years for: it made the
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Let’s start with the number that explains everything else. The median sale price for a home in Boston in February 2026 was $802,000. That is 89% above the national average. To afford that median home comfortably — using the standard 28% debt-to-income rule, with a 20% down payment at current mortgage rates hovering around 6.5%
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There is a six-acre stretch of land in South Boston, sitting between two Red Line stations, with approved permits for a 1.1-million-square-foot life sciences campus across the street. By almost any measure, it should be one of the most valuable undeveloped parcels in the city. On March 17, it went to foreclosure auction. The property
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Boston is not a city where “expensive” means the same thing in every zip code. A $1.2 million budget will get you a well-appointed two-bedroom condo with harbor views in one neighborhood and a tiny studio with a galley kitchen in another. The difference is not just square footage — it is history, walkability, prestige,
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For months, it was one of the worst-kept secrets in Boston’s commercial real estate market. JPMorgan Chase had been quietly scouting a location to consolidate its four scattered downtown offices into a single, unified headquarters. The building everyone expected them to choose was South Station Tower — the 51-story glass skyscraper that opened last September
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Massachusetts is heading toward one of the most consequential housing policy battles in its recent history — and a new study dropped this week to make sure everyone knows exactly what is at stake. The Greater Boston Real Estate Board, one of the most powerful real estate lobbying groups in the state, commissioned a report
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For a company that has called South Boston home for more than 125 years, Gillette is not going quietly into its next chapter. It is going with a nearly billion-dollar construction crane and a nine-story building on the Fort Point Channel waterfront. Procter & Gamble’s Gillette division announced Tuesday that it plans to purchase the
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Foxborough is better known for Gillette Stadium and Patriots game days than for headline-grabbing real estate deals. But a transaction that quietly closed this week is putting the town on the investment map for a very different reason. Foxmeadow Farm, a luxury apartment community at 29 Wall Street in the heart of Foxboro, has changed
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The Boston real estate market has just sent a loud message to the world: demand for historic prestige is higher than ever. The iconic townhome at 46 Chestnut Street has officially shattered local records, selling for a staggering price that underscores Beacon Hill’s status as one of the most resilient and valuable neighborhoods in the
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