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The South Boston waterfront was long a bleak area separated from the rest of the city by the Fort Point Channel, its docks and warehouses recalling a faded shipping past. Now, rechristened the Seaport district, construction cranes dot the landscape as builders put up high-end condominiums, offices and hotels in one of the biggest neighborhood transformations in Boston history.
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Bloomberg News
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3/18/13
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Bill Bachant, owner of Bill Bachant Builders, recently took some time out of his weekend to meet with potential clients.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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The traditional wood clapboards, wrap-around front porches and narrow, peaked roofs in the proposed Palmer Pointe affordable-housing project in Barrington haven’t eased neighborhood concerns about the development.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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There’s plenty that could go wrong with a business plan dependent on attracting small businesses to work in stacked shipping containers, beside a train track, near a busy convergence of highways pouring into downtown Providence.
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By Rhonda Miller |
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Home equity is back! And it’s growing fast: According to the latest data from the Federal Reserve, Americans’ net equity holdings in their houses jumped by nearly half a trillion dollars during the last three months of 2012, and have increased by $1.7 trillion since the spring of 2011.
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3/25/13
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When the federal government repossessed the Medina Village apartments off Cranston Street in Providence’s West End in 2010, there was a real possibility the 22 vacant and decaying buildings in the complex would be abandoned.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Overall mortgage activity reached a five-year high in Massachusetts in 2012, with refinance mortgages dominating 83 percent of the market share, according to new data from The Warren Group’s Mortgage MarketShare Module.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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Americans signed fewer contracts to buy previously owned homes in February, indicating a pause in momentum for an industry that is helping power the economy.
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Bloomberg News
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4/1/13
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If you buy or own an energy-efficient house, does this make you less likely to default on your mortgage? Is there a connection between the monthly savings on utility costs and the probability that you’ll pay your loan on time?
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4/8/13
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House hunters diving into the spring real estate market may encounter something unseen since the giddy days of the subprime bubble: a bidding war.
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By Patrick Anderson |