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'Comps' hit as home prices sink

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0500

How fresh are your "comps" - the comparable sales of properties used as benchmarks in home real estate appraisals? Buyers and sellers rarely had to be concerned...

Toothsome Tudor in West Roxbury

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:02:38 -0500

Here's an unusual opportunity to buy a West Roxbury house that includes a built-in professional office. The five-bedroom Tudor-style house at 1652 Centre St. includes...

Spicing up the neighborhood

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:18:43 -0500

Former Spice Girl Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown has bought a home in California's San Fernando Valley, reportedly paying $3.2 million. The Los Angeles Times...

Buying a home the FHA way

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:41 -0500

Q: I've heard that the down payment needed to buy a home has gone up because so many people have defaulted on mortgages. Is there any way to get...

High-rise planned for Fort Point area

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:57:41 -0500

A Boston development team has proposed a 25-story residential tower in the city's Fort Point Channel neighborhood. The project at 319 A Street Rear by Archon Group...

Congress renews tax credit

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:27:01 -0500

Congress delivered an early Christmas present to the real-estate industry yesterday, extending and expanding a popular tax-credit program for home buyers that some say has...

Housing sales havens

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:33:15 -0500

Home sales may be in the tank statewide, but more than a dozen communities in Greater Boston are bucking the trend. In 16 towns from Arlington to Westwood, sales of single-family...

Fed holds interest rates near zero

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:09:09 -0500

The Federal Reserve is keeping short-term interest rates near zero percent, but is scaling back an unprecedented $1.45 trillion intervention into mortgage markets as the U.S....

Auctioned homes go for under $150G

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:41:38 -0500

The region's home prices may be on the rise, but home buyers cashed in on bank-owned properties this week at rock bottom prices. A two-bedroom condo, part of a duplex,...

Mayoral panel blasts Government Center plan

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:23:26 -0500

Months after the Menino administration called on a developer to reduce a $2.3 billion plan to replace the Government Center Garage, a neighborhood panel says the project is...

Court OKs injunction against subprime lenders

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:19:30 -0500

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has affirmed a preliminary injunction against Option One Mortgage Corp. and H&R Block Mortgage Corp., subprime lenders that originated...