Real Estate

The mortgage market for home purchases in Central Massachusetts is growing on a rising tide of sales, just in time for an expected slowdown in refinancing.

A commercial real estate group on Thursday applauded the decision by two environmental groups to drop a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency.

Pending home sales across the U.S. were up slightly in July, led by a 4-percent increase in the Northeast.

The Wayland Town Center mixed-use development has been sold to Zurich Asset Management for $68 million.

Sales of single-family homes and condominiums in Massachusetts soared in July compared with a year earlier, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR) said Tuesday.

The Greater Boston industrial real estate market made “strong gains” in the second quarter of 2015, according to Boston-based commercial brokerage Transwestern | RBJ. But the picture along the Route 495 belt is spotty. In the western submarket of the region, which includes the Boroughs' towns as well as Hopkinton, Natick, Framingham, Sudbury, Wayland, Milford, Hudson and Bolton, the numbers slid the other way.

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It's no mistake that, throughout Massachusetts, there's more hospital signage showing up either on commercial sites, or on empty land that will give rise to satellite facilities under the umbrella of larger health care systems. That, in turn, is creating new business for architects and construction companies.

Senate leaders invited a handful of foreclosure experts to meet with on-the-fence lawmakers Thursday to walk through a title-clearing bill that had been scheduled for a vote before the August recess only to be delayed out of respect to questions raised by some senators.

Citing the environmental and economic importance of the state's coastline, Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday morning signed an executive order reconstituting the state council devoted to supporting the state's seaports.