Andrew Brinker

Sales of single-family homes in the region were up 9 percent in September compared to the same month last year.

The proposed 12-story building would be built nearly entirely from laminated wood, a relatively new concept called mass timber that is both more cost effective and energy efficient.

A poll by a state housing advocacy group found that most Bostonians want the city to move more aggressively to build more and rein in housing costs.

Home sales in the region remained relatively stagnant in August, even as mortgage rates dropped.

Signs are emerging that there may be fewer international and graduate students in the Boston area this academic year.

The median-priced single-family home in the region still sold for $967,000 in July, according to new figures released by the Greater Boston Association of Realtors.

Religious institutions from Roxbury to Cambridge to Allston are opting to transform mostly empty properties into housing for lower income families.

Representatives for the powerful industry said they were alarmed by a proposed rent control ballot question and are prepared to spend heavily to fight it.

A tenant coalition is launching a campaign to bring a “rent stabilization” plan to Massachusetts voters next year, more than three decades after similar rules were outlawed statewide.

Now, whoever hires the broker has to pay the fee. However, some warn that landlords could just pass the fee along by raising rents.