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Tell us: Do you live in a new apartment building in Greater Boston? We want to hear about it.

We’re looking for people who rent in buildings that are two or three years old — or newer — in or around Boston to talk about what they pay, what they get in terms of amenities and location, and what they think about where they live.

St. Regis condo developer sells 10 units in unconventional ‘limited inventory bid’ process
Jon Cronin offered one- and two-bedroom condos with minimum required bids about 20 percent below recent sales.

Boston backs an apartment project that divided a Dorchester neighborhood
All the units will be reserved for low- and middle-income tenants in Boston’s most populous neighborhood at a time when the city is struggling with a housing shortage.

These six graphs show how bad the Greater Boston housing market is right now

Inventory is plummeting, renters are getting squeezed, and many communities simply aren’t building enough to keep pace.

High prices, mortgage rates, keep Greater Boston housing market stuck in neutral
Sales hit record lows in October, while prices remain at record highs.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines
We’re living longer and making the housing shortage worse
Many people are staying in their homes years beyond what they would have a generation or two ago.

Connolly suspending campaign to put rent control on statewide ballot
The Cambridge Democrat’s coalition gathered just a fraction of the 75,000 signatures necessary to get a rent control question on a 2024 Massachusetts ballot.

Bypassing mortgage rates: share of US homes bought with cash hits highest level in nearly a decade
Homes purchased entirely with cash, which means there was no reference to a mortgage on the deed, accounted for 34.1 percent of all sales in September.

Latest Headlines in Housing

‘A cloud hanging over everybody’s head’: New construction in Greater Boston faces a slowdown

The backlog of projects that are permitted but haven’t yet started work are complicating efforts to address the region’s housing shortage and to build office space better suited for the post-lockdown world.

Debate rages about MBTA housing law, but all’s quiet in Braintree as deadline nears

Braintree town officials are set to present a state-mandated rezoning plan for the first time in late November, just one month before it must be approved and sent to the state.

Chief executive of National Association of Realtors resigns

The action came two days after a federal jury ruled that the powerful organization conspired to inflate home commissions.

LARRY EDELMAN | TRENDLINES

Sunshine, Florida State football, and affordable housing. Are you game for Tallahassee?

The lack of affordable housing has become a defining characteristic of the Boston region.

After tense debate, Arlington adopts new housing plan

The town is the largest yet to approve a plan required by a 2021 state law that mandates denser housing in communities served by the MBTA.

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Meet the new millionaires tax: A proposed fee on home sales over $1 million

Communities would be able to adopt a real estate transaction fee of 0.5 percent to 2 percent on the portion of a property sale over a $1 million and put the funds toward affordable housing programs.

Healey’s big new housing push includes $4 billion in funding — and controversial tax and zoning changes

State officials estimate that the proposal could create more than 40,000 new homes — a large portion of which would be set aside for low- and middle-income households — over five years.

Ten things to know about Governor Healey’s $4 billion housing bond bill

The bill proposes more than two dozen policy changes and three executive orders.