Do you live in Milton, Sharon, Acton, Chelmsford or Easton? All five were named in CNN Money’s top 100 list of America’s best small towns to live in.
Milton, which rang in at No. 2 – right after Louisville, Colo. – allows its residents to live on tree-lined streets that are dotted with historic homes, according [...]

While there probably aren’t a lot of people out there right now looking to purchase an investment property, you still might be interested to know that Boston has topped Move Inc.’s list of best college towns to invest in real estate.
Apparently, the Boston/Cambridge area is so good for investment properties because of all the college [...]

Following in the footsteps of other organizations trying to woo homebuyers, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has released its very own mobile phone application, which has (big surprise) a mortgage calculator and even a glossary of mortgage terms for those of us not in the know.
While this isn’t the most awe-inducing phone app to [...]

Thanks to the recovering rental sector in the nation’s housing market, a “double dip” is unlikely to occur, according to a recent Freddie Mac report.
So, not only will renting continue to stay strong throughout the rest of the year, the Freddie Mac report projects that homes sales will also be anywhere between 3 percent to [...]

If you’re under 30, you can basically forget about owning your own home. At least that what a recent study from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Research Institute for Housing America is telling us.
At the height of the homebuying boom, it was this under-30 set that grew the fastest when it came to buying a home. [...]

How much does a neighborhood or community influence homebuying decisions? Enough to make some people move from their current residence, according to a recent survey.
One in five homeowners across the county have moved from their home or would like to move because their neighborhood or community wasn’t an ideal fit for their lifestyle, according to [...]

There are lots of theories on what the best way to sell a home is and the Australians just came up with one more that might actually work.
Today they launched the website iPostcodes, which is how the home’s owner can directly participate in the marketing of their property. In addition to having a real estate [...]

The housing market isn’t all doom and gloom, folks. It turns out that U.S. property is extremely popular with foreign buyers.
For the year ending March 2011, total residential international sales in the U.S. totaled $82 billion, a $16 billion increase from 2010, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). These sales were split evenly [...]

When it comes to the buy versus rent debate, it seems that senior citizens are more in favor of making rent payments over that of a mortgage – at least that’s what this nation’s homebuilders think.
A survey from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) during the first quarter found that builder confidence in the [...]

For the first time in its history, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), together with Wells Fargo, measured housing affordability in metro areas between this country’s major races and ethnic groups.
The report looked at several metro areas in Massachusetts and determined the Housing Opportunity Index (HOI) for all races and ethnic groups combined [...]