Real Estate

When you pull off Route 146 in Lincoln, R.I. — about 45 minutes from Worcester — you can drive about a mile down a tree-lined road before coming to a clearing where what looks like a movie theater or mall appears amid a sea of parking spots. But it's Twin River, a race-track-turned-slots-parlor with 300,000 square feet of gaming space and about 4,500 slot games.

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission will now weigh four bids for the state's only slots parlor license now...

As home values have ticked upward and unemployment has fallen over the past year, Timothy Warren, chairman of real estate tracking firm The Warren Group, figured owners who had been waiting for better conditions to sell would finally come off the sidelines.

Massachusetts seems to be on the other side of the nationwide unemployment problem brought on by the...

Highly visible to passing motorists on its hillside perch, does the gleaming steel-and-glass Higgins Armory Museum — which has housed one of the world's largest collections of medieval armor and weaponry for the past 82 years — also hold the potential for other uses?

The former Marist Retreat Center, the Framingham seminary made vacant after the Marist Fathers of Boston moved out in 2011, has found an interested buyer.

Worcester Polytechnic University officially introduced its newest Gateway Park building Wednesday, a $32-million, four-story edifice that now houses a mix of academic and private-sector functions.

The Chicago developers hoping to build a slots parlor near Worcester's Kelley Square provided new updates to the city Wednesday and faced questions from city leaders.

After hearing public comment for more than two hours Tuesday night, the Worcester City Council voted 9-2 to recommend that the city manager enter into negotiations with developers who aim to build a slots parlor in the city.

A shrinking inventory was blamed for the second consecutive month of declining single-family home and condominium sales, according to The Warren Group of Boston.