Kevin Shalvey
New home sales drop 10.2%, hit record low
WASHINGTON – The sale of newly built, single-family homes in the United States fell 10.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 309,000...
Five Questions With: Patrick Cleary
New Boston Fund, the Boston-based development company, is in the middle of an about $140 million mixed-use project, The Gateway at Quonset Point. Gateway...
R.I. home prices at 2002 levels
BOSTON – The median price of single-family homes sold in Rhode Island fell in January to $184,000, the lowest price in almost seven years,...
Providence center to encourage business innovation
When the R.I. Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship opens its doors, either this month or next, it will complete the three-pronged approach the R.I....
Coastway may convert to savings bank
The 27,000 Rhode Island members of Coastway Credit Union will decide in April whether the credit union will re-establish itself as a mutual savings...
Fast-growing Quonset not immune to slowdown
Construction of the shell of Vantage Point, a new waterfront building in the Keifer Park section of Quonset Business Park, wrapped up late last...
Growing commercial tax base is crucial for Portsmouth
Since 2002, William E. Clark has been director of business development for Portsmouth, acting as a liaison between businesses and the town. He’s organizing...
Feds deliver stimulus money for HUD priorities
WASHINGTON – More than $79 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding will come to Rhode Island as part of a...
Five Questions With: Paul A. Leys
When Paul A. Leys took office as the 2009 president of the Rhode Island Association of Realtors in October, the residential real estate market...
Housing starts, permits fall again in Jan.
WASHINGTON – Housing starts and permits fell for the seventh straight month in January, with new-home production falling year-over-year by 16.8 percent to a...














