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The spring home-selling season looks like a bust

While Greater Boston prices hit a new high in May, there still wasn’t much out there to buy.

After years and years of planning, Harvard is set to break ground on Allston research campus

Construction will begin this week on the first phase of Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus, which will include labs, housing, and a hotel.

Seaport project could include the neighborhood’s first fire station

The Seaport has long faced criticism for its lack of basic municipal services such as a fire or police station, library, or school.

Massachusetts is the third most expensive state in the US to rent a home, new study says

You now need to earn more than $40 an hour to afford the typical two-bedroom apartment in Mass.

High atop South Station, a tower rises
Amid a changed economy, the 51-story tower under construction above South Station is launching condo sales and leasing office space.

Two decades later, public housing is once again coming to Boston
A new but little-known federal program means that some municipalities in Mass. are on track to build hundreds of new units, and thousands more could come.

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In Boston’s brutal rental market, the final insult has arrived: bidding wars

Amid record-low inventory, desperate renters are offering to pay even more than the landlord is asking. Sometimes by hundreds of dollars. Per month.

Boston’s Tiffany Ayer Mansion can now be yours for less than $15 million

It's the only surviving home that boasts a Tiffany design inside and out.

Local funds meant to support housing are sometimes used to block it, report finds

A new study has found that — especially in the suburbs — Community Preservation Act funds often go toward open space, not housing.

Long-planned project north of Andrew Square starts moving forward again

The plan would eventually put 4 million square feet of housing and commercial space on 21 acres along Dorchester Avenue.

To meet new state housing law, Newton aims to make its villages a little taller

One of Boston’s largest suburbs has a year-end deadline to comply with state law that could require it to permit more than 8,000 additional homes.

‘This is Boston’s big challenge’: A new plan to defend downtown against sea-level rise

A long-awaited resiliency plan for Boston’s Wharf District outlines $1.2 billion worth of upgrades to protect the waterfront from flooding.

Boston developer plans massive film studio complex on Braintree-Weymouth line

The project would put seven sound stages and other facilities at Banner Park.

In a Back Bay nook, a new hotel project moves forward again

Developers have filed updated plans with the Boston Planning & Development Agency to build a 21-story, 300-room hotel at the former Red Lantern restaurant in Back Bay.