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ON THE GREEN: The Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce will hold its “Just Fore Fun” golf tournament on May 20 at Coventry Pines Golf Course./ COURTESY COVENTRY PINES GOLF COURSE

Editor’s Choice: Central R.I. Chamber to hold golf tournament

Subscriber Only 05/13/2022

EDITOR’S CHOICE Central R.I. Chamber to hold golf tournament THE CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND Chamber of Commerce will hold its “Just Fore Fun” golf tournament, hosted...

GOV. DANIEL J. MCKEE, along with Amos House, announced a landlord challenge Monday to provide permanent housing for more than 150 Rhode Island families and individuals who have been experiencing homelessness and staying in hotel shelters since the onset of the pandemic.

R.I. aims to house 150 struggling families through landlord bonuses

Government 05/02/2022

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee and Amos House are "challenging" landlords to use an incentive program that will pay them bonuses for providing...

R.I. home prices rise 13.7% in Q1 amid slowing sales

Economic Activity 04/28/2022

PROVIDENCE – The median first-quarter sale price of a single-family home in the state was $375,000, a 13.7% increase year over year, according to...

R.I. housing inventory falls to record low in February

Housing 03/17/2022

WARWICK – The median price of single-family homes sold in Rhode Island continued to climb in February, rising 15% year over year, while sales...

TOP SALE: The $30 million sale of Clarendon Court, a 7-acre seaside estate located on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, in early September 2021 is the highest price ever paid for a home in Rhode Island. / COURTESY MIKE OSEAN

MANSION MANIA: Newport ‘cottages’ set sales records in 2021, but what’s...

Cover Story 03/04/2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in Rhode Island in April 2020, John Hodnett worried about not only the health crisis but the effect...

GETTING CREATIVE: Kylie McCollough, a real estate agent with Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty, says the majority of high-end real estate sales this year will happen “offline,” without being advertised on the open market. She is pictured at Champ Soleil in Newport. /  PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Agents knocking on doors in search of ‘offline’ sellers

Economy 03/04/2022

It’s never been more of a seller’s market in Rhode Island than it is right now in the realm of high-end real estate. And that...

DEMANDING JOB: Stephen Tetzner, founder and managing partner of Homestar Mortgage Inc., says 2021 was the busiest of his 46 years in the mortgage industry. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Will higher interest rates cool the housing market?

Financial Services 03/04/2022

What goes down, must come up. That will apply to mortgage rates, which have begun to climb after hitting historic lows in 2021 and are...

WHITE-HOT: The $30 million sale of Newport’s Clarendon Court last year set a new record for the highest price ever paid for a home in the Ocean State. /  COURTESY MIKE OSEAN

R.I.’s high-end home market has room to run in 2022

Economy 03/04/2022

What goes up must come down, we’ve been taught, except apparently when it comes to high-end home sales in the Ocean State. Last year was...

APPEALING BENEFIT: Agueda Del Borgo, left, president of the Rhode Island Association of Realtors, and Ann Enos, professional development director for the association, agree that the lifestyle of a real estate agent, and being able to work an accommodating schedule, has been attractive to people looking for a new job. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Online Realtor training helps fuel rush of students

Education 02/04/2022

A combination of a red-hot residential real estate market, the rising popularity of house-flipping reality shows, the “great resignation” and the convenience of Zoom-based...