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MBTA Communities Holdouts Are Down to Eight Town Meetings
The SJC unanimously dismissed Marshfield's challenge September 18. What the ruling means for the eight Massachusetts towns still refusing to rezone.
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Kendall Square Lab Space Refills Before It Becomes Housing
Anthropic just leased 24,000 sq. ft. at One Kendall Square. Cambridge's lab glut is real, but the best located half re-leases before…
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Boston Office to Residential Conversion Skips the Lab Glut
Boston lab vacancy hit 33.7%, but the empty labs are not becoming apartments. What is actually converting in the South End, and…
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South Boston Real Estate Gets Cheaper Closer to Dot Ave
South Boston's 1,945-unit Dorchester Ave filing drew one bidder at auction. The closed-sale record near Andrew Square tells a different story.
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Massachusetts Deed Fraud: The Concord Lot Sold at Market
Federal charges say a Concord lot was stolen and sold for $525,000. The MLS record shows it priced like ordinary land. What…
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Massachusetts Data Centers: The Risk Is Your Electric Bill
Healey's Executive Order 658 makes big data centers harder to build in Massachusetts. The land was never the risk here. Your electric…
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Massachusetts Affordable Housing Funding Skips Resale Buyers
Massachusetts made its largest housing award in a decade and 578 homes landed in Newton, Cambridge and Brookline. Not one of them…
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Massachusetts New Construction Costs: Tariffs Outrun Zoning
Massachusetts zoning reform fixed permission, not cost. Tariffs add about 45% to Canadian framing lumber, and MLS PIN shows where the new…
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South Coast Rail Added 600,000 Trips and Zero Price Premium
South Coast Rail ridership is up 37%, but closed sales within a mile of every station show no premium. Why East Taunton…
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Massachusetts Luxury Real Estate After a $43 Million Record
The $43 million Edgartown record was two deeds. Here is what the MLS PIN book says Greater Boston luxury sellers actually got…
